Transcribing Quotes

• A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mean, Typewriters

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• I can barely listen to my tapes when I'm transcribing, because I can't stand how I sound.

  Jancee Dunn

  Sound, Tape, Because I Can

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I like writing dialogue - I can hear my characters so clearly that writing dialogue often feels as much like transcribing something as it does like creating it.

  Lauren Grodstein

  Writing, Character, Creating

  Source: www.salon.com

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• What was evident was that Mozart was simply transcribing music completely finished in his head. And finished as most music is never finished. Displace one note and there would be diminishment. Displace one phrase and structure would fall. I was staring through the cage of those meticulous ink strokes at Absolute Beauty.

  Peter Shaffer

  Fall, Ink, Would Be

  "Amadeus". Play by Peter Shaffer, November 2, 1979.

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• In the transcribing and the editing, you want some retention of how the person speaks - you don't want to edit out all of the hesitations and idiosyncrasies. And to get people to say something they've never said before. That's big.

  Sheila Heti

  Editing, People, Want

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Joel Chandler Harris, who created a multi billion dollar industry, everything from his books, to Disney's "Song of the South" based upon the Uncle Remus stories. He got his start by transcribing the stories of slave Informants. I'm sure that none them got a dime.

  Ishmael Reed

  Song, Uncles, Book

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The Gospels were not thought of as works of literature. People were not concerned with the literary reputation of Matthew or Mark, but with the substance of their records of our Lord's life. They did not have to respect their actual words, as they would if they were transcribing the works of Thucydides or Plato.

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Plato, People, Substance

  "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. X, The Position Today, p. 135, 1949.

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• I learned by transcribing songs out of the Library of Congress collection in Washington where I was working. I got a job when I just turned twenty in 1939 and Alan [Lomax] needed some help. I listened to hundreds of records every week.

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Jobs, Library

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

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• I've always considered transcribing to be an invaluable tool in the development of one's musical ear and, over the years, I have spent countless glorious hours transcribing different kinds of music, either guitar-oriented or not.

  Steve Vai

  Guitar, Years, Musical

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am transcribing a book that I have, in a sense, not yet written, and in another sense, have always written, and in another sense, am currently writing, and in another sense, am always writing, and in another sense, will never write.

  Charles Yu

  Book, Writing, Written

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Enhanced Edition): A Novel”, p.104, Knopf

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