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• During my stage shows, I am so energetic. It's constant! I just don't stand still. I actually got given a mic stand from my team to say 'Just calm down. Stand still for at least two songs.' But now I just pick it up and walk around with it.

  Jessie J

  Song, Team, Two

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

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• My first open mic, I drank a full pitcher of beer by myself. I wasn't afraid of being in front of people as much as, Is this funny?

  Doug Stanhope

  Beer, People, Firsts

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I remember performing on a punk stage with no mic in the middle of a mosh pit. My act was called "How to Be a Domestic Goddess."

  Roseanne Barr

  Pits, Remember, Punk

  Interview with Judd Apatow, www.elle.com. June 12, 2015.

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• I wanna be able to stand on the stage and hold out the mic and people sing all the lyrics to my song.

  Sevyn Streeter

  Song, People, Able

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• Ladies love me when I spray the mic
  But there aint no "I" in snuggling
  Aint no "U" in "Stay the night"

  Mac Lethal

  Night, Snuggling, Hip Hop

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• I couldn't help but think, This car is taking me to a mental hospital and my mother is treating it like open-mic night at a Greenwich Village café.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Mother, Night, Thinking

  Augusten Burroughs (2010). “Running with Scissors: A Memoir”, p.132, St. Martin's Press

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• I would. I'm just too, I'm kind of, a pussy, I guess. That's the problem. But, no, I'd love to. I think everybody should do open mics. I think it's very healthy for your soul. So yeah, I'd love to do it again, but I don't know. It's like I'm cutting a record if I do open mic now, so, I don't know.

  Robert Pattinson

  Music, Cutting, Thinking

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• I don't think coaches should have to wear mic's. It is an invasion of privacy. We are trying to accomplish things, and wearing microphones may hinder development by straining the nature of relationships coaches and players have.

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, Player, Thinking

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• I laughed and pointed out that "Hash Browns Mean Nothing Without You" was a pretty good name for a band. "Or a song," the Duke said, and then she started singing all glam rock, a glove up to her face holding an imaginary mic as she rocked out an a cappella power ballad. "Oh, I deep fried for you / But now I weep 'n' cry for you / Oh, babe, this meal was made for two / And these hash browns mean nothing, oh these hash browns mean nothing, yeah these HASH BROWNS MEAN NOTHIN' without you.

  John Green

  Song, Mean, Glam Rock

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.105, Penguin

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• He hated crowds, never liked punk. He couldn't handle the nakedness of the rage -his own so sophisticated and finely tuned. He could never see the similarity between himself and Donnie Draino screaming into a mic.

  Janet Fitch

  Crowds, Punk, Rage

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• We don't live in an ancient era. Today, collaboration doesn't mean two singers standing next to each other at the mic to sing together.

  Sunidhi Chauhan

  Mean, Two, Together

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• Who knew, when you were watching the Verizon ad and the guy said, 'Can you hear me now,' that was really just a mic check for the Obama administration.

  Rick Perry

  Guy, Administration, Checks

  "US lawmakers call for review of Patriot Act after NSA surveillance revelations" by Dan Roberts, Spencer Ackerman, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2013.

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• There's a very old recording maxim that goes, 'Distance makes depth.' I've used that a hell of a lot-whether it's tracking guitars or the whole band. People are used to close-miking amps, but I'd have a mic out around the back, as well, and then balance the two. Also, you shouldn't have to use EQ in the studio if the instruments sound right. You should be able to get the right tones simply with the science of microphone placement.

  Jimmy Page

  Distance, Guitar, Two

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• My dad played in different clubs and open mic nights. But he mostly walked dogs. A lot of dogs.

  Rachel Trachtenburg

  Dog, Dad, Night

  "Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: Off and on Broadway". Music, Documentary, 2006.

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• If it was all about me, I'd do a whole lot of pop records, make a whole lot of money, just rake in the dough. But it's never been all about me. It's all about being a voice for the voiceless. People who can't speak for themselves, who don't have a mic, don't have a say.

  Ice Cube

  Voice, People, Records

  "Ice Cube: 'My son could recite Straight Outta Compton at two years old'". Interview with Alex Godfrey, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2014.

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• I think the fear of humiliating yourself on stage always motivates me to give at least 90 percent. I've definitely been guilty of leaning on the mic stand, but you can only do that so long before you're like, "Jesus, I'm bombing." The fact that people pay to come see me, that's really just out the window.

  Bill Burr

  Jesus, Thinking, Giving

  Interview with Matt Wild, www.avclub.com. June 15, 2011.

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• Enterprising law-enforcement officers with a warrant can flick a distant switch and turn a standard mobile phone into a roving mic or eavesdrop on occupants of cars equipped with travel assistance systems.

  Jonathan Zittrain

  Phones, Law, Car

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• Any take, anything that's recorded while the mic is on, that could be the final take.

  Stuart Price

  Finals

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• Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, Id be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that thats the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because Ive always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.

  Flavor Flav

  Rap, Hype, Enemy

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• 'Cause I'll rip the mic, rip the stage, rip the system
  I was born to rage against 'em

  Zack de la Rocha

  Rip, Hip Hop, Causes

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• I can totally identify with the younger kids. I'll never do what Jon Spencer did to me when I was 16, though. I made a tape with my friends and I put it onstage right near his mic stand by the pedal board and he pulled it out with his foot, kicked it to the center of the stage, looked me in the eye and stomped it to pieces.

  Patrick Carney

  Kids, Eye, Feet

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• The days of an open mic night when I'd rock up in an old jumper are over.

  Katy B

  Night, Rocks, Jumpers

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• That's right I never hold my tongue for saving face
  Even the mic feedback will humm "Amazing Grace"

  Mac Lethal

  Hip Hop, Grace, Saving

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• Just take me home where the mood is mellow
  And the roses are grown
  M&M's are yellow
  And the light bulbs around my mirror don't flicker
  Everybody gets a nice autograph picture
  One for you and one for your sister
  Who had to work tonight but is an avid listener
  Every song's a favorite song
  And mics don't feed back.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Song, Nice, Home

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• Bullying new comics at open mic nights? NOT ON MY WATCH!

  Papa CJ

  Bullying, Night, Watches

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