Microphones Quotes - Page 2

• The state would rather give me an uzi than a microphone.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Giving, States, Give Me

  FaceBook post by Mumia Abu Jamal from Aug 26, 2011

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• I have a no-apology policy. No apologies for jokes. I apologize in my real life all the time. I say ridiculous things, I make mistakes constantly. But when I'm on stage, I'm at a microphone it's a joke!

  Kathy Griffin

  Real, Mistake, Apology

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• I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute.

  Ian Anderson

  Chicago, Flutes, Made

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• I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I'd go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on 'Laugh-In,' Flip Wilson.

  Bernie Mac

  Stupid, Shoes, Voice

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• With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with the same script a mediocre director can make a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can’t possibly make a good film. For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water. That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Real, Fire, Expression

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• You can't even imagine how it felt to have a cassette that you could take with you with a microphone so you could put down an idea and not have to hum it a million times to remember what it was.

  Robert Plant

  Ideas, Remember, Imagine

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• People like my voice and say I can sing, but I don't like microphones in front of my face: it distracts me.

  Bernie Worrell

  Voice, People, Faces

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• The Bible says that the devil is like a roaring lion (1 Peter 5:8). He comes in the darkness, and tries to frighten the children of God with his mighty roar. But when you switch on the light of the Word of God, you discover that there is no lion. There is only a mouse with a microphone! The devil is an imposter. Got it?

  Reinhard Bonnke

  Bible, God, Christian

  Reinhard Bonnke (2015). “Daily Fire Devotional: 365 Days In God’s Word”, p.314, Whitaker House

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• I play a percussion instrument, not a musical saw; it needs no amplification. Where it's needed, they put a microphone in front of the bass drum. But, I don't think it's necessary to play that way every night.

  Buddy Rich

  Night, Thinking, Play

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• The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.

  Ed Bradley

  News, Sitting, Done

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• Sir one more comment like that and I will strangle you with my microphone wire!

  Adam Sandler

  Funny, Wire, Comedy

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• I found at an early age the times when I learned the most about myself was when I got thrown out there on a stage in front of a microphone when you didn't really want to be out there, where you're kind of afraid.

  Andrew Shue

  Age, Want, Kind

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• What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?

  Jessica Savitch

  Men, Wife, Faces

  Jessica Savitch (1982). “Anchorwoman”, Thorndike Pr

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• I like to hold the microphone cord like this, I pinch it together, then I let it go, then you hear a whole bunch of jokes at once.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Let It Go

  "Comedy Central Presents", TV Series (1998– ). "Mitch Hedberg", www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• Playing and singing at the same time is pretty cool, but sometimes it's difficult to know when you can just really let go a bit because you've got to get back to bloody microphone and sing some stuff.

  Graham Coxon

  Letting Go, Singing, Stuff

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• A microphone fiend; I make beats do back flips.

  O.C.

  Hip Hop, Flip, Beats

  Song: My World, Album: Jewelz

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• I've watched and learnt from DJs and remixers and paid way more attention to how I want my voice to sound. Before, as long as it was loud and in tune it was fine. I've discovered the difference made by various microphones and effects, so each track has a different vocal sound, my voice is woven into everything and it's above everything.

  Ellie Goulding

  Voice, Differences, Long

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make records in their bedrooms.

  David Byrne

  Home, Two, Littles

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• Oh I don't need an education Just a microphone's intoxication And I can't deal with concentration Give me tongues and stimulation

  Katy Rose

  Giving, Needs, Tongue

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• Standing in front of a microphone where every word or every slip that you make, especially in these times, is with you forever - you want to say the right thing. I fell into having to extemporize, and it came okay because of tools I've learned. I said [to myself], "Remember [to mention] mom and dad."

  Neil Peart

  Mom, Dad, Forever

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God.

  Nick Cave

  Responsibility, Artist, Piano

  The Daily Telegraph, Novevember 20, 1997.

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• What about little microphones? What if everyone swallowed them, and they played the sounds of our hearts through a little speaker. [...] I wonder if everyone's hearts would start to beat at the same time.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Heart, What If, Littles

  "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, 2005.

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• When I first started to beatbox on the microphone with the Get Fresh Crew, people were shocked. Some things are just supposed to happen and you have to roll with it.

  Doug E. Fresh

  People, Firsts, Crew

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• I don't want to scare anybody here but we just received word from police that Howard Dean is loose and may be armed with a microphone.

  Craig Kilborn

  Police, Scare, May

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• The table was her stage. The mobile phone was the microphone. And the new moon was the spotlight. That kind of magic only Nana could make it happen.

  Ai Yazawa

  Moon, Phones, Magic

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