Quotes about Microphone

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. Votes: 4

Lyrical lecture, word architecture, Rap director, the best in my sector. Microphone cool chief, releasin the smooth speech... I get nasty with a pen and some loose leaf. Votes: 3

Justin Broadrick has stated that the drum machine sound was heavily influenced by hip hop artists in the late 80s, particularly the beat on "Christbait Rising" which Broadrick was quoted as saying, "It was my attempt at copying the rhythm sample on 'Microphone Fiend' by Eric B & Rakim". Votes: 3

Take a microphone out of my hands, and I'm just plain folks. Votes: 2

I was a shy kid with a broom handle that I pretended was a microphone. Votes: 2

Sir one more comment like that and I will strangle you with my microphone wire! Votes: 2

I have a microphone on one ankle and an ankle bracelet on the other, so I'm well balanced today. Votes: 2

That's called a microphone. It's a big sausage that picks up everything you say - and you're starting early. Votes: 2

Well I have a microphone and you don't so you will listen to every damn word I have to say! Votes: 2

I don't write for an auditorium full of people. I don't write for the microphone; I write for the page. Votes: 2

I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone. Votes: 2

Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone. Votes: 2

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I'm an actor. Whether I'm on stage, in front of a camera or a microphone, what I do is the same - although with videogames it requires a lot of imagination. Votes: 2

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument - learning to do your craft - that's the most important thing! It's not about what goes on in a computer! Votes: 2

Heckling is an act of cowardice. If you want to speak, get up in front of the microphone and speak, don't sit in the dark hiding. It's easy to hide and shout and waste people's time. Votes: 2

With the advent of cell phones, especially with the very small microphone that attach to the cell phone itself, it's getting harder and harder I find, to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. Votes: 2

Basically, radio hasn't changed over the years. Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I'm about to do. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I started using contact microphones that you can place on common, ordinary objects, like a rake. I put a microphone on it and it picked up the tines vibrating and turned it into a horrible din. What attracted me to it was the horrible din - that's what I really liked. Votes: 2

The GOP grows more and more unpopular with female voters seemingly every time one of its leaders gets in front of a microphone. Misogynist is as misogynist does. The GOP and its bloviating pundits don't like women and they are unable to hide it, nor do they seem to make much attempt to do so. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I'm always working on new songs. With the technology these days, any idiot can record on Pro Tools on your laptop. All you have to do is plug a microphone into the input jack and anybody can have their own recording studio. So I'm always down in my basement, singing along to riffs or whoever I'm collaborating with. Votes: 2

I love my lecture tours. I get up onstage. I have my stack of books and a glass of water and a microphone. No podium, no distance between me and the audience, and I just talk to people and get all excited and tell a lot of jokes, and sing some songs, and read from my work and remind people how powerful they are and how beautiful they are. Votes: 2

I usually never walk by a microphone. Votes: 0

Nobody gets between me and my microphone. Votes: 0

A microphone fiend; I make beats do back flips. Votes: 0

There aint a microphone brave enough to give me feedback! Votes: 0

The state would rather give me an uzi than a microphone. Votes: 0

In standup, you don't have anything near you except a microphone. Votes: 0

Any man with a microphone can tell you what he loves the most. Votes: 0

I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess. Votes: 0

I'm always in range of a microphone. I even have a studio at home. Votes: 0

I did things with the microphone stand that no-one else has attempted to do. Votes: 0

When people heckle me, I have the microphone. And the press has the microphone. Votes: 0

I went from MC to being MS, this microphone controller is the motivational speaker. Votes: 0

So while you're imitating Al Capone, I'll be Nina Simone, And defacating on your microphone Votes: 0

The best time for gum is just before getting onstage. I need a minty-fresh microphone. Votes: 0

I'm liking the idea more and more of just standing up with a microphone and talking. Votes: 0

I'm a hard act to follow, because when I'm done, I take the microphone with me. Votes: 0

When everyone has a microphone, you can't hear anything. Choose one voice carefully and listen in. Votes: 0

You're stuck in front of the microphone. You can't use your hands. I like to do things Votes: 0

You're stuck in front of the microphone. You can't use your hands. I like to do things. Votes: 0

Well I'm a sire, I set the microphone on fire, Rap styles vary, and carry like Mariah Votes: 0

As a broken microphone cannot broadcast a message, so a restless mind cannot transmit prayers to God Votes: 0

The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio. Votes: 0

Real, rough and rugged, shine like a gold nugget, Every time I pick up the microphone, I drug it. Votes: 0

When it comes down to the music, it's just you and the microphone. It's not you and the record execs. Votes: 0

Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver. Votes: 0

I think I was nervous enough, even at 3:00 a.m., that you could hear my heart beating over the microphone. Votes: 0

I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone Votes: 0

Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone. Votes: 0

Oh I don't need an education Just a microphone's intoxication And I can't deal with concentration Give me tongues and stimulation Votes: 0

What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death? Votes: 0

He'd actually done it! He leaned back into the microphone and whispered to the now silent cave: 'Come to the Cabaret! Votes: 0

It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange. Votes: 0

I'm a frustrated stand-up comic. If you hand me a microphone and I get one laugh, then I'll go on for 20 minutes. Votes: 0

It's much easier to spend a lot of time making your microphone louder than it is working on making your message more compelling. Votes: 0

My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God. Votes: 0

You know, I've never done karaoke, ever. It makes me nervous - I think it's the lack of the guitar and just a microphone. Votes: 0

He was a god of rock. He nearly solved all the world's problems with nothing but power chords and anguished cries into a microphone. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm trying to capture a moment. It's not about the singer at the microphone. I'm trying to look for, like, a moment in between. Votes: 0

I don't like to use a microphone around my head while I'm teaching so I had to learn how to project from my stomach more. Votes: 0

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, Votes: 0

I was born with a silver microphone in my mouth, and that was an advantage. My father wrote books and was also a great broadcaster. Votes: 0

Im a B-list celebrity trying to give it an honest look. They see me do actual work. ... I try to be the viewer with a microphone. Votes: 0

Sinatra, here's a guy who plays a tough guy in all his movies, but was allowed to be vulnerable when he stepped up to the microphone. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

And when I'm on the microphone you best to wear your sweater, Cause I'm cooler than a polar bear's toenails, Oh hell, there he go again. Votes: 0

There are three different modes: playing piano, just me at the microphone, and me at my effects units. And I can mix those up in different ways. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

This microphone is the key to the universe. When you have this in your hands, you are the most powerful person in the whole world, let's get!. Votes: 0

I'll have the music, and then I'll just turn the microphone on, press Play and Record and sing. And whatever comes out ends up being the melody. Votes: 0

It's not enough to be able to spell "magnificence" in your bedroom. You have to be able to spell it at the microphone during the spelling bee. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There are few things quite so effortlessly enjoyable as watching an eminent person getting in a huff and flouncing out of a television interview, often with microphone trailing. Votes: 0

As for radio and movies, I like the movies better, although the work is much harder. The cinema has microphone technique, staging, and glamour all wrapped up into one. Votes: 0

Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues -- communicating with an audience. Votes: 0

Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience. Votes: 0

It's naturally kind of humiliating and strange to have a microphone; when you're young you just make movies, you don't worry about all the peripheral stuff that comes with it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We saw very little of the real Jack Buck behind the microphone. He would touch people in ways that we will never know. Jack was much more than just an announcer. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm still excited at being at a microphone and talking to listeners. I love that. It's the most basic element of what I do and I still enjoy it very much. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Energy is felt once the cards are dealt With the impact of roundhouse kicks from black belts that attack the microphone like cyclones or typhoons I represent from midnight to high noon. Votes: 0

Republicans just can't help themselves. They get in front of a live microphone and within a few sentences are rocketing down the swiftest and most direct route to the all-you-can-eat comedian-and-talk-show-host buffet. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rather than someone who is bashing a plank and is spitting all over a microphone. Votes: 0

I don't like going to the studio. It just seems too cold. There's no crowd to react to, or share anything with; it's just talking into a microphone that's going into a computer. Votes: 0

The piano sounds like a carnival and the microphone smells like a beer. And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar and say, man, what are you doing here? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I've taken salsa classes. I love dancing and I love to karaoke. So I bought a microphone with some tapes and my son and I karaoke. I know the entire 'Dora the Explorer' soundtrack. Votes: 0

For live you need a microphone for the snare and the high hat, the kick drum, a nice stereo overhead and one for the toms - you can get away with using four mikes. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In so many interviews, they bring up the sexual aspect of the record. I've had some journalists say it sounds like I'm lying down in bed singing with a microphone. It gets so old! Votes: 0

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?' Votes: 0

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!" Votes: 0