Tape Quotes - Page 17

• I grew up listening to Commission, Kirk Franklin and Hezekiah Walker. If I was found listening to any rap, my pops would throw them out, or crush the CDs and tapes - literally.

  Rahki

  Crush, Rap, Cds

  Interview with Brian Hughes Kasoro, www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2011.

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• For any producer I've ever worked with, their toughest job is to convince me to not to obscure my vocals. A lot of people don't like the sound of their own voice on, like, cassette tape or something. It's like that for me, and other songwriters I know. Like, "Oh God, that's what I sound like?"

  Ryan Adams

  Jobs, Voice, People

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• He [Groucho's father] had absolutely no training, and if you had ever seen one of his suits, you'd realize what an accurate statement that is. You see, Pop never used a tape measure. He didn't believe in it. He said he could just look at a man and tell his size, with the result that frequently he'd make a pair of pants with one trouser leg seven or eight inches longer than the other.

  Groucho Marx

  Father, Believe, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't use backing tapes when I am singing and dancing on stage. I can do cartwheels and sing.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Dance, Dancing, Singing

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• Forget the state concerns -- we think this is bad for churches. Most churches are small and not ready to handle 500 pages of government red tape.

  Michael Tanner

  Thinking, Government, Church

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• They just said, 'Roll the tape.' No rehearsal or nothing... Muddy [Waters] didn't come in and say 'I wanna rehearse.' He used to look at me and say 'Let's just play the blues. That's all you need to do.

  Buddy Guy

  Play, Water, Rehearsal

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• I wish I could have a little tape-and-loudspeaker arrangement sewn into the binding of this magazine, to be triggered off by the light reflected from the reader's eyes on to this part of the page, and set to bawl out at several bels: MORE WILL MEAN WORSE.

  Kingsley Amis

  Mean, Eye, Light

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• The crews that are going to be self-produced are going to make the great albums, as opposed to making these mix-tapes, these compilations - "Me over this guy" It sounds good individually, but the art of the record is something that is lost. It gets to the point where it's just vocalists and producers coming in and piecing things together.

  El-P

  Art, Self, Guy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I listened to a lot of tapes of British theatre actresses and tried to learn from them. As Americans, we don't have such a gift with language.

  Angelina Jolie

  Theatre, Actresses, Language

  "Maleficent - Angelina Jolie interview". Interview with Jason Palmer, Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I like to work with a combination of analog and Pro Tools. I love the sound of analog tape, but there's so many things you can do with Pro Tools that would be incredibly difficult and very time-consuming with analog.

  Kate Bush

  Sound, Would Be, Tools

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. May 16, 2011.

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• I just sat down and thought, I'm going to write a song today, I'm going to give it a try. So I just stuck it on a tape like everything else. That was just another song.

  Jules Shear

  Song, Writing, Giving

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• A lot of musicians like to do the bass and the drums with analog and get that tape distortion that's really beautiful. As far as the digital world goes - it's all going to end up there anyway, but when you hear vinyl it does a different thing to you. Nowadays, people do CDs and then vinyl so it's everything goes; it's a such a beautiful world.

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Cds, People

  "David Lynch Talks New Music Projects". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 2, 2010.

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• I think everyone, once in his life, should be given a ticker-tape parade.

  Gene Kranz

  Thinking, Parades, Should

  Gene Kranz (2009). “Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond”, p.338, Simon and Schuster

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• The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Character, Noses, Shapes

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.82

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• If you are recording, you are recording. I don't believe there is such a thing as a demo or a temporary vocal. The drama around even sitting in the car and singing into a tape recorder that's as big as your hand - waiting until it's very quiet, doing your thing, and then playing it back and hoping you like it - is the same basic anatomy as when you're in the recording studio, really. Sometimes it's better that way because some of the pressure is off and you can pretend it's throwaway.

  Tom Waits

  Drama, Believe, Hands

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. October 18, 2011.

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• Being a journalist, I never feel bad talking to journalism students because it’s a grand, grand caper. You get to leave, go talk to strangers, ask them anything, come back, type up their stories, edit the tape. That’s not gonna retire your loans as quickly as it should, and it’s not going to turn you into a person who’s worried about what kind of car they should buy, but that’s kind of as it should be. I mean, it beats working.

  David

  Mean, Talking, Car

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• Without the tape-recorded evidence demonstrating irrefutably, in Nixons own voice, his knowledge of and active involvement in obstruction of justice, it is likely that Nixon would have escaped impeachment and removal from office.

  Richard Ben-Veniste

  Voice, Office, Justice

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• The lesson that I'm learning is that I've got to be careful of being pigeonholed because people can take a piece of tape and edit out the first half and only pull out one snippet that could start a firestorm.

  Herman Cain

  People, Pieces, Half

  "Herman Cain Exclusive: Tells Brody File He Will Support Constitutional Amendments on Life and Marriage". Interview with David Brody, www1.cbn.com. October 22, 2011.

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• We all often feel like we are pulling teeth, even those writers whose prose ends up being the most natural and fluid. The right words and sentences just do not come pouring out like ticker tape most of the time.

  Anne Lamott

  Teeth, Pouring, Natural

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.22, Anchor

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• However many people complain about the "red tape," it would be sheer illusion to think ... continuous administrative work can be carried out in any field except by means of officials working in offices.... The choice is only that between bureaucracy and dillettantism.

  Max Weber

  Mean, Thinking, People

  1922 Collected in Guenther Roth and Claus Wittich (eds) Economy and Society (1978), ch.3.

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• If you exchanged wedding vows, tape them to your bathroom mirror and read them aloud to yourself every morning along with the ritual brushing of teeth. It's not realistic to believe that you will live your promises as a daily practice -- unless you're a saint or a highly evolved Zen Buddhist. Not where marriage is concerned. But you can make a practice of returning to your vows when the going gets rough.

  Harriet Lerner

  Buddhist, Morning, Believe

  "Returning To Your Wedding Vows" by Harriet Lerner, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2012.

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• I make music to make you sick of fake music, hate music like devil worshippin Satan music. So say your prayers, your Hail Marys and Jesuses. Take two sticks, tape 'em together and make a crucifix.

  Eminem

  Jesus, Prayer, Hate

  "Song: 'Devil's Night'". 2001.

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• Every step that produces a single job for a currently unemployed European should be taken. Every centimetre of red tape that puts someone out of work must be torn up.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Jobs, Taken, Red

  "Europe: the continent for every type of unhappy" by Timothy Garton Ash, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2014.

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• He made me mess the song up when I looked at him... We can show the kids the tape and say, "Look, that's when we first laid eyes on each other."

  Edie Brickell

  Song, Kids, Eye

  "Whatever happened to Edie Brickell?". CNN, January 7, 2004.

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• If I tape an 11-hour day, guess which parts end up on air. Not the bits when I'm pleasant, but the parts when I'm obnoxious.

  Simon Cowell

  Air, Hours, Ends

  Playboy Interview, February 2007.

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