Microphones Quotes - Page 7

• Most of the time, particularly with this record, 'The Light of the Sun,' I really just been standing in front of a microphone and blacking out musically, you know. I'd come back a couple hours later and there's six songs from beginning to end, you know? I don't know what I'm going to say. I don't know how I'm going to say it.

  Jill Scott

  Song, Couple, Light

  "Jill Scott: Act The Part". "All Things Considered" with Laura Sullivan, www.npr.org. June 18, 2011.

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• Eventually as a teenager, I was pulled up on stage by James Brown's saxophone player, Maceo Parker, during one of his concerts and scatted on his stage for 20 minutes. After I was done, Maceo's bass player got down on one knee as if he were proposing, took a string off of his bass guitar and coiled it up around my ring finger. He hushed the crowd and said into the microphone, "Wendy, from this day forward you are married to music. You have a gift from God. You must devote your life to using this gift or else you will deprive the world of something so special." I got the chills.

  Wendy Starland

  Teenager, Player, Guitar

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.

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• I don't view myself as any kind of celebrity, but we as people are called to do those things and I am just lucky I have a microphone and can reach more people sometimes.

  The Rocket Summer

  Views, People, Lucky

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• To have a young person speak back, to hand him the microphone for his first-person utterances, you'd have to have an imagined architecture, otherwise people would say you're putting words in their mouths.

  Fred D'Aguiar

  Hands, People, Utterance

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It's not about notes or scales, it's all about emotion.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Spirit, Emotion, Holy

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• I think a lot of people mistake my confidence on stage for cockiness in real life, and that's actually farthest from the truth. When I'm on stage I'm that confident and that cocky, because I have a microphone in my hand, and there's a few thousand people staring at me. And I know they're there to laugh.

  Russell Peters

  Real, Mistake, Cocky

  "The famous comedian most Americans don't know". Interview with Alicia W. Stewart, www.cnn.com. October 16, 2013.

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• As a broken microphone cannot broadcast a message, so a restless mind cannot transmit prayers to God

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Prayer, Restless Mind, Broken

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• Well, there were definitely elements of my rise in radio that had to do with my being black. But going back as far as Walter Winchell, Army Archerd and Hedda Hopper, legendary wags would grab a radio microphone and talk about what Errol Flynn and other stars were up to.

  Wendy Williams

  Stars, Army, Black

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Traditionally, an engineer is responsible for capturing sound - microphone choice, gear, etc. A producer can have a number of different responsibilities - anything from songwriting to judging performances - setting mood, and (perhaps most importantly) choosing which songs to work on!

  Matt Squire

  Song, Responsibility, Numbers

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• I'll never forget that little apple box I stood on because I couldn't reach the microphone. My name was written on it and it's sitting at Diana Ross's house now. She has all my little doodling papers I would draw and write.

  Michael Jackson

  Writing, Names, Apples

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• When I was growing up, I grew up in church--my father was a pastor--so when I was growing up in Trinidad, I'd close all the windows in the church and go in the church every day after school and get a little microphone and pretend all these people were in the pews, and I would sing to them.

  Heather Headley

  Growing Up, Father, School

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• I never know what I'm going to say as I walk up to the microphone. I try to be in the moment. I try to go deeper into myself. I discover things on stage that I don't discover off stage about me.

  Greg Fitzsimmons

  Trying, Moments, Stage

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• What we want to do is raise the bare minimum amount that will give us a large enough microphone to effectively convey our message. Unfortunately, $20 million is critical mass in terms of running an effective campaign in New York.

  David Brenner

  Running, New York, Giving

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• I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

  Alan Rickman

  Dubbing, Lasts, Spokes

  "Alan Rickman Says Goodbye to 'Harry Potter' in a published letter to J.K.Rowling" by Josh Wigler, www.mtv.com. May 26, 2011.

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• I have always been very comfortable behind a microphone. I love talking about basketball, I love being around people, I love being around the game, the travel and the excitement around the arena.

  Steve Kerr

  Basketball, Love Is, Talking

  "Steve Kerr Interview". Interview with Victor Kelly, www.ign.com. March 13, 2007.

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• Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for people to do.

  Dave Grohl

  Play, People, Singing

  "Is Rock Music Dead? Not If Dave Grohl Has Anything To Say About It" by Gazelle Emami, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 13, 2012.

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• Rhyme to kill, rhyme to murder, rhyme to stomp,
  Rhyme to ill, rhyme to romp,
  Rhyme to smack, rhyme to shock, rhyme to roll,
  Rhyme to destroy anything, toy boy.
  On the microphone:
  I'm Poppa Large, big shot on the East Coast.

  Kool Keith

  Rap, Boys, Hip Hop

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• Real, rough and rugged, shine like a gold nugget,
  Every time I pick up the microphone, I drug it.

  Jeru the Damaja

  Real, Rap, Hip Hop

  Song: Come Clean, Album: The Sun Rises in the East

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• If you are what you say you are
  A superstar
  Then have no fear
  The camera's is here
  and the microphones and they wanna know
  Oh oh oh oh yeah
  If you are what you say you are
  Then have no fear

  Lupe Fiasco

  Inspirational, Rap, Hip Hop

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• Just like I'm the king on the microphone, so is Dr. J and Moses Malone
  I like slam dunks, take me to the hoop my favorite play is the alley-oop
  I like the pick-and-roll, I like the give-and-go
  Cause it's basketball, uh, Mister Kurtis Blow.

  Kurtis Blow

  Basketball, Kings, Blow

  Song: Basketball, Album: Ego Trip

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• Rick Rubin said, well, I don't know that we will sell records. He said, I would like you to go with me and sit in my living room with a guitar and two microphones and just sing to your heart's content everything you ever wanted to record. I said, that sounds good to me. So I did that. And day after day, three weeks, I sang for him.

  Johnny Cash

  Heart, Two, Guitar

  Source: wrvo.org

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• So all hail the honorable, microphone phenomenal
  Persona is unbombable? Trust me son,
  I continue like a saga do, bringin' you the drama to
  allow you that the chronicle has just begun.

  Rakim

  Drama, Son, Hip Hop

  Song: The Saga Begins, Album: The 18th Letter

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• I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of 'what else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?'

  Brian Eno

  Thinking, Voice, Years

  "Brian Eno explores the melody of the spoken word". Interview with Randall Roberts, articles.latimes.com. July 5, 2011.

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• I've earned this microphone. No one gave this to me. I've earned this microphone. I use it each day to enter the arena of ideas, and do whatever I can to persuade you to agree with me.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Ideas, Use, Each Day

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I spoke at the University of Georgia, and a whole contingent of Tea Party people in Hell's Angels regalia came in and sat in the front and scowled at me while I gave my talk. And afterwards the head of the group got to the microphone and said, I'm surprised that I agree with almost everything you said, but I'm worried that you're a big government guy.

  Bill Ayers

  Party, Angel, Government

  Source: thepointmag.com

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