Microphones Quotes - Page 9

• For years, I was stuck behind a keyboard rig. When I started playing guitar onstage, it was a bit of a release - not to be stuck in one spot the whole night. It's really enjoyable having the freedom to move around. You just have to remember to end up somewhere near a microphone.

  Martin Gore

  Moving, Night, Guitar

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• I think there's a percentage [of the audience] that don't realize, that don't know that [standup] is how everything began. We planned it, we work hard, rehearsals to get this. It's more of a ... it's not just coming in there in a T-shirt and holding a microphone.

  Tim Allen

  Hard Work, Thinking, Rehearsal

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• When I left the Beatles, I made an album called McCartney that I played everything on. And it was kind of a cool experience. I felt like a professor in a laboratory, just crafting stuff and adding this, and putting this on and moving the microphone, and it was very homemade.

  Paul McCartney

  Moving, Albums, Stuff

  "Sir Paul McCartney". Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. May 21, 2007.

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• I'm not a journalist any more. I don't have to stick a microphone up somebody's nostril and I don't have a camera lens behind my shoulder, I think people talk to me in a much franker way.

  Gerald Seymour

  Thinking, People, Cameras

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• There's one theory that the funnier a comic is in his act, the more mind-numbingly boring he'll be when he's not holding a microphone.

  Nick Kroll

  Mind, Boring, Comic

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I made Simon Cowell look stupid once. He is terrified of presenting so I gave him the microphone and walked away. He hates interviewing people it means the focus is off him.

  Ryan Seacrest

  Hate, Stupid, Mean

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• I would just sweat so much. I'd be dry when I run on the stage. By the time I got in front of the microphone, it just, just like a river pouring out. I don't know what made that happen. It took five years for that to stop happening to me.

  Nickolas Ashford

  Running, Years, Sweat

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• Speaking of stage freight. I was terrified! It was in NOLA at an all ages show. I was wearing Jeans, a Van Halen t-shirt, and a bandana on my neck. Once I gripped that microphone stand, I did not let go! I plugged my microphone into a guitar FX pedal. Then at the end of the a Black Sabbath song we were covering, I hit the guitar pedal. It was horrific!

  Phil Anselmo

  Letting Go, Song, Guitar

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• Sometimes the show needs that kick in the ass so being able to sing a Nirvana song kind of takes it there. I've grown up putting on extravagant shows with Girl Talk so when I'm playing I like to go nuts. After 30 minutes of pointing and clicking it's nice to scream into a microphone for three minutes.

  Girl Talk

  Girl, Song, Nice

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 30, 2006.

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• Aerobics is a really whacked-out way to get going. The loud rock 'n' roll music and the teachers standing before you, doing the exercises and screaming into the microphone, "Go! Go! Go for the burn!"

  Michael Richards

  Teacher, Exercise, Rocks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You know, every time it comes, every time that light comes on or every time that camera comes on, every time that microphone comes on, the Mac Man seek and destroy.

  Bernie Mac

  Men, Light, Cameras

  "Bernie Mac Interviewed - 'Pride'". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 20, 2007.

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• People thought this was a computer IT gig, and that will flow through those nerdy departments and it won't come into fashion photography, it won't come into television, it won't come into my daily communications, it won't come into my telephone, my microphone, my light control, my microwave radio, my - I mean, just name it.

  Juan Enriquez

  Photography, Fashion, Communication

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I've had the opportunity to spend some time with Donald Trump. He is - he - as you can imagine, I mean, he's a very engaging man. He's - he puts on an image as a lot of candidates and I think all of us do when we're in front of a microphone that's really tough and combative.

  Rick Santorum

  Mean, Men, Thinking

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• When I'm the person in front of the microphone, and I'm the person in the light, I want to reflect and refract the light onto places where they need the attention, where I don't need it.

  Don Cheadle

  Light, Needs, Attention

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Those of us with a microphone who are blessed with the gift of being in the public eye have a special opportunity to give voice to all those groups whose activism is sometimes ignored or put on the back pages with the the dumbing down of television and the tabloidization of journalism. As Ralph Nader called it, "sound barks," not even sound bites.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Blessed, Eye, Opportunity

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• It's only a thimbleful of a voice, and I have to use it close to the microphone. But it is a kind of oversmoked voice, and it automatically sounds intimate.

  Julie London

  Voice, Sound, Use

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• Footballs, basketballs, microphones, gas and grass...
  Just some of the few things that J-Ro likes to pass.

  J-Ro

  Basketball, Football, Rap

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