Tape Quotes - Page 3

• While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then.

  Garth Brooks

  Baseball, Song, Writing

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• In my screenplays - from the very beginning I've always used tape. I talk my screenplays. And then have somebody transcribe them.

  Albert Brooks

  Used, Screenplays

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• I was really, because I thought it was extremely excruciating when I watched a tape of it, that my husband taped for me and I never watched it again after that.

  Jo Brand

  Husband, My Husband

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• I think I'm hysterical. I watch myself on tape and just roar - isn't that weird?

  Roseanne Barr

  Thinking, Watches, Hysterical

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• The paper, the stapler, the staples, the tape. It makes me sick. Physical things. Forty years of loving someone becomes staples and tape.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Years, Loving Someone, Sick

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.230, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What's that sticky stuff called? Basta: Duct tape. Yes, duct tape. I love duct tape.

  Cornelia Funke

  Stuff, Inkheart, Sticky

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• And I suppose tapes are a desperate attempt to steal something from Death's suitcase.

  Mitch Albom

  Suitcases, Stealing, Desperate

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• I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.

  Brian Eno

  Ideas, Firsts, Composer

  "Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers talk Scape, iPad apps and generative music". Interview with Stuart Dredge, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2012.

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• I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.

  Brian Eno

  Running, Years, Play

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• There's a point when your tape of life runs off the reel and there's this stillness of your own - I got to know myself.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Running, Knows, Stillness

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• Such a bad mistake it would be, to embark on marriage and adult life without a nice supply of duct tape.

  Nancy Werlin

  Mistake, Nice, Adults

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• I hope you're ready, because I'm about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended. And if you're listening to these tapes, you're one of the reasons why.

  Jay Asher

  Listening, Stories, Reason Why

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.17, Penguin

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• right' i said. 'but first, we need the car. and after that, the cocaine. and then the tape recorder, for special music, and some acapulco shirts.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Car, Special, Firsts

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.15, Vintage

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• To me, making a tape is like writing a letter – there's a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again, and I wanted it to be a good one.

  Nick Hornby

  Writing, Letters, Starting

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.99, Penguin

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• But just now, he'd gotten on his knees and proposed marriage, like in a television commercial for a diamond ring. Except of course they had the roll of duct tape instead, which, when you came to think about it, was a far more practical item. Such a bad mistake it would be, to embark on marriage and adult life without a nice supply of duct tape.

  Nancy Werlin

  Mistake, Nice, Thinking

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• But the answer is simple. Love is a mix tape.

  Rob Sheffield

  Simple, Love Is, Answers

  "Love is a Mix Tape". Book by Rob Sheffield, 2007.

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• I do a lot of books on tape for Beverly Cleary, and another 'Smurfs' shout-out for that demographic.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Book, Smurf, Demographics

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• Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant 'Da da da da' instead of 'Boom boom boom boom!' Who knows?

  Eddie Van Halen

  Imagine, Recorders, Knows

  "Eddie Van Halen reinvents the guitar". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. February 4, 2009.

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• Some people record onto tape, and then they pay for the tape, and download those onto a hard drive. Initially in a Pro Tools program. Other people go straight into digital, and use no tape at all.

  Dave Grohl

  People, Tools, Use

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• When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily manipulate that in different ways. It is what it is.

  Dave Grohl

  Different, Way, Capture

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• My father was a really sharp cartoonist and filmmaker. He used to tape-record the family surreptitiously, either while we were driving around or at dinner, and in 1963 he and I made up a story about a brother and a sister, Lisa and Matt, having an adventure out in the woods with animals.

  Matt Groening

  Brother, Father, Adventure

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• You can do a lot with Scotch tape. Almost anything! I love that you can hem a dress, and its an instant remedy in a fashion crises.

  Jennifer Garner

  Fashion, Scotch, Dresses

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.

  John Frusciante

  Ideas, Use, Records

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• Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take notes or use a tape recorder, but I suspect his memory claims were just a useful cover to invent dialogue whole cloth.

  Joshua Foer

  Memories, Use, Truman

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• I always hated high-school shows and high-school movies, because they were always about the cool kids. It was always about dating and sex, and all the popular kids, and the good-looking kids. And the nerds were super-nerdy cartoons, with tape on their glasses. I never saw 'my people' portrayed accurately.

  Paul Feig

  Sex, School, Kids

  "Paul Feig walks us through Freaks And Geeks". Interview With Genevieve Koski, tv.avclub.com. April 9, 2012.

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