“My father was a really sharp cartoonist and filmmaker. He used to tape-record the family surreptitiously, either while we were driving around or at dinner, and in 1963 he and I made up a story about a brother and a sister, Lisa and Matt, having an adventure out in the woods with animals.” MadeStoriesUsedFatherAnimalRecordsAdventureBrotherWoodsDinnerDrivingFilmmakerTapeCartoonist Author:Matt Groening
“I wanted to be a broadcaster, sportscaster, or gameshow host from a very early age. I did my first broadcasting when I was 10 or 11 - into a tape recorder for my brother's football game, and for local events. A local radio station was experimenting with high school disc jockeys for rock and roll shifts - I applied - and got the job.” FirstsAgeWantedSchoolJobsGamesRocksEventsFootballBrotherHigh SchoolRadioLocalsMy BrotherStationsHostTapeRock And RollFootball GameBroadcastingRadio StationsRecordersDiscsBroadcastersJockeys Author:Ralph Strangis
“When I was a little kid I loved the Marx brothers and discovered Monty Python when I was 10 or 11-years-old. I used to take a tape recorder and hold it up in front of the TV to record entire episodes to play over and over again, so that I could memorise it.” YearsLittlesPlayKidsUsedRecordsFrontsBrotherTvsTapeEpisodesLittle KidRecordersPythonMontyMarx Brothers Author:Rainn Wilson
“I started by studying Kiswahili to learn the dialect. Then, I studied tapes, documentaries, footage, and audio cassettes of Idi Amin's speeches. And I met with his brothers, his sisters, his ministers, his generals' all kinds of people, in order to try to understand him.” PeopleTryingKindOrderStudyBrotherMetsSpeechAll KindsMinistersTapeDocumentariesDialectAudioCassettes Author:Forest Whitaker