Best Tape Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“My favorite films, I would put my answering machine up to the television set and hit record. I'd tape my favorite movies and then I could go back and listen to them again. I only had the soundtrack, I didn't have the visuals. But I think it made me really pay attention to the soundtracks.”

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Author:Mark Mothersbaugh

“There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.”

People Hell Special Tape Special Places

Author:Adam Osborne

“I started in a research lab for TV cameras, then I worked at a tape duplication facility. That was the first introduction for me to recorded music and hi-fi.”

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Author:Alan Parsons

“I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory.”

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Author:Alan Parsons

“My come-out record, '10 Day,' was the thing people were supposed to hear and figure out 'he's good' or 'he's not good.' 'Acid Rap' is the comeback tape, and it asks way bigger and better questions than, 'Is he good at rapping?”

People Way Asks Records Figures Bigger Rap Tape Acid Comeback Bigger And Better

Author:Chance the Rapper

“I have a lyric journal that I write in a lot. When I’m going to play, I just sit down and have my books with me and my notes and tapes and whatever I need to refer to. I just play and try different things. It’s a kind of discipline.”

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Author:Amy Ray

“If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience.”

Ifs Rooms Practice Audience Pieces Fronts Prove Tape Living Room

Author:Dave Van Ronk

“I grew up in New York City in the '80s, and it was the epicenter of hip-hop. There was no Internet. Cable television wasn't as broad. I would listen to the radio, hear cars pass by playing a song, or tape songs off of the radio. At that time, there was such an excitement around hip-hop music.”

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Author:Michael Rapaport

“Well, I'm a tape-recording nut. I like to play my tapes.”

Wells Play Nuts Tape

Author:Tony Randall

“The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.”

Lying Tape

Author:Daley Thompson

“The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.”

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Author:Andrew Vachss

“If you're a person who just wants to be in the world and doesn't want any knowledge, then I don't know what you are doing with this tape. Turn it off immediately.”

Ifs Knows World Want Inspirational Persons Turns Buddhism Tape

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There isn't a ruler, a yard stick or a measuring tape in the entire world long enough to compute the strength and capabilities inside you.”

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Author:Paul J. Meyer

“I chose to not wear a wire and tape people. I chose to not get immunity until - were accepted, whatever - until the independent counsel's office was comfortable with what I said was the truth.”

People Said Office Comfortable Independent Accepted Tape Wire Immunity

Author:Monica Lewinsky

“No one has any faith in the tape anymore - everyone just relies on computers and considers the hardrive to be the safest option, and I don't. I think an analog tape is something you can hold.”

Thinking Computer Rely Tape Analog

Author:Dave Grohl

“Sometimes magic sounds like tape.”

Sometimes Sound Magic Tape

Author:The Amazing Johnathan

“Bin Laden was 200 miles away from the area where all of these drone strikes were taking out his key leaders in al-Qaida. He was able to indulge in his hobbies... He was making occasional video tapes and audio tapes for release to the wider world.”

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Author:Peter Bergen

“My dad bought a Beatles tape when I was in fifth grade, and that was the first time I ever really - I mean I was into music, but that was the first time it really blew my mind. When I heard the 'Red Compilation,' which wasn't like a proper album, I thought, 'music was more than I had ever thought it was before.”

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Author:Andrew Dost

“The Astonishment Tapes will now take its place within the growing field of international research about postwar American poetry's important contribution to world literature. Miriam Nichols has once again done exceptional scholarship.”

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Author:Peter Gizzi

“The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.”

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Author:Zac Hanson

“I think if you look at Sam Raimi and Jim Cameron, those guys know things about filmmaking that almost nobody knows anymore. They are students of film from when they handmade films themselves, you know cut films with their own hands and razor blades and tape.”

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Author:Dileep Rao

“Significant officials at publicly traded companies are casually and cavalierly engaged in insider trading. Because insider trading has as one of its elements communication, it doesn't take rocket science to realize it's nice to have the communication on tape.”

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Author:Preet Bharara

“Tape is wonderful at preserving evidence - fingerprints, hairs, fibers. Tape preserves this, especially on the sticky side, even if the body's been out there for a year.”

Ifs Years Body Sides Wonderful Hair Evidence Preserves Tape Fiber Sticky Fingerprints

Author:Michael Baden

“I'm remixing an R.E.M. track called 'I've Been High' from their last album, 'Reveal.' It's a beautiful song, but record execs didn't put it out as a single because it didn't sound like the R.E.M. we're used to. So I asked Michael Stipe if I could have the tapes to do a remix, and he agreed.”

Ifs Lasts Beautiful Used Song Sound Records Track Albums If I Could Tape Remix

Author:Lukas Haas

“That was my way, and I also use the music after five years, I started hearing opera, opera, it was very good instrument to keep the spirit very strong because you feel like you are yourself singing opera, and I used to hear a lot of opera, they send me tapes.”

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Author:Mordechai Vanunu

“So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.”

Ideas Use Records Tape Recorders

Author:John Frusciante

“For any producer I've ever worked with, their toughest job is to convince me to not to obscure my vocals. A lot of people don't like the sound of their own voice on, like, cassette tape or something. It's like that for me, and other songwriters I know. Like, "Oh God, that's what I sound like?"”

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Author:Ryan Adams

“He [Groucho's father] had absolutely no training, and if you had ever seen one of his suits, you'd realize what an accurate statement that is. You see, Pop never used a tape measure. He didn't believe in it. He said he could just look at a man and tell his size, with the result that frequently he'd make a pair of pants with one trouser leg seven or eight inches longer than the other.”

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Author:Groucho Marx

“I don't use backing tapes when I am singing and dancing on stage. I can do cartwheels and sing.”

I Can Use Can Do Stage Singing Dancing Dance Tape Singing And Dancing Cartwheels

Author:Beyonce Knowles

“Forget the state concerns -- we think this is bad for churches. Most churches are small and not ready to handle 500 pages of government red tape.”

Thinking States Government Church Forget Ready Pages Red Concern Handle Tape Not Ready Red Tape

Author:Michael Tanner

“They just said, 'Roll the tape.' No rehearsal or nothing... Muddy [Waters] didn't come in and say 'I wanna rehearse.' He used to look at me and say 'Let's just play the blues. That's all you need to do.”

Needs Looks Said Play Used Water Tape Look At Me Rehearsal Muddy

Author:Buddy Guy

“I wish I could have a little tape-and-loudspeaker arrangement sewn into the binding of this magazine, to be triggered off by the light reflected from the reader's eyes on to this part of the page, and set to bawl out at several bels: MORE WILL MEAN WORSE.”

Mean Littles Light Eye Wish Reader Pages Magazines Tape Arrangements Binding

Author:Kingsley Amis

“The crews that are going to be self-produced are going to make the great albums, as opposed to making these mix-tapes, these compilations - "Me over this guy" It sounds good individually, but the art of the record is something that is lost. It gets to the point where it's just vocalists and producers coming in and piecing things together.”

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Author:El-P

“I listened to a lot of tapes of British theatre actresses and tried to learn from them. As Americans, we don't have such a gift with language.”

Language British Actresses Theatre Tape

Author:Angelina Jolie

“I like to work with a combination of analog and Pro Tools. I love the sound of analog tape, but there's so many things you can do with Pro Tools that would be incredibly difficult and very time-consuming with analog.”

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Author:Kate Bush

“You can do a lot with Scotch tape. Almost anything! I love that you can hem a dress, and its an instant remedy in a fashion crises.”

Can Do Fashion Crisis Dresses Instant Tape Remedy Scotch Hem Scotch Tape

Author:Jennifer Garner

“I just sat down and thought, I'm going to write a song today, I'm going to give it a try. So I just stuck it on a tape like everything else. That was just another song.”

Giving Writing Trying Today Song Down And Stuck Sat Tape

Author:Jules Shear

“When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid things, but I would make these dumb comedy tapes. I would often make prank phone calls, but I would also do it with friends.”

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Author:J. J. Abrams

“A lot of musicians like to do the bass and the drums with analog and get that tape distortion that's really beautiful. As far as the digital world goes - it's all going to end up there anyway, but when you hear vinyl it does a different thing to you. Nowadays, people do CDs and then vinyl so it's everything goes; it's a such a beautiful world.”

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Author:David Lynch

“I think everyone, once in his life, should be given a ticker-tape parade.”

Thinking Should Given Tape Parades

Book:Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond

Source: Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond

“The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.”

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Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“If you are recording, you are recording. I don't believe there is such a thing as a demo or a temporary vocal. The drama around even sitting in the car and singing into a tape recorder that's as big as your hand - waiting until it's very quiet, doing your thing, and then playing it back and hoping you like it - is the same basic anatomy as when you're in the recording studio, really. Sometimes it's better that way because some of the pressure is off and you can pretend it's throwaway.”

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Author:Tom Waits

“Being a journalist, I never feel bad talking to journalism students because it’s a grand, grand caper. You get to leave, go talk to strangers, ask them anything, come back, type up their stories, edit the tape. That’s not gonna retire your loans as quickly as it should, and it’s not going to turn you into a person who’s worried about what kind of car they should buy, but that’s kind of as it should be. I mean, it beats working.”

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Author:David

“Without the tape-recorded evidence demonstrating irrefutably, in Nixons own voice, his knowledge of and active involvement in obstruction of justice, it is likely that Nixon would have escaped impeachment and removal from office.”

Voice Justice Office Evidence Active Tape Involvement Removal Demonstrating Obstruction Impeachment

Author:Richard Ben-Veniste

“The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents' memories on special occasions perhaps-no casual storytelling jogged by daily life, there being no shared daily life what with migrations, exiles, diasporas, rendings, the search for work. Or there is a shared daily life riddled with holes of silence.”

Source: What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)

“We all often feel like we are pulling teeth, even those writers whose prose ends up being the most natural and fluid. The right words and sentences just do not come pouring out like ticker tape most of the time.”

Feels Ends Natural Sentences Teeth Prose Tape Pulling Fluid Pouring Right Words

Book:Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“However many people complain about the "red tape," it would be sheer illusion to think ... continuous administrative work can be carried out in any field except by means of officials working in offices.... The choice is only that between bureaucracy and dillettantism.”

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Author:Max Weber

“I make music to make you sick of fake music, hate music like devil worshippin Satan music. So say your prayers, your Hail Marys and Jesuses. Take two sticks, tape 'em together and make a crucifix.”

Two Together Hate Jesus Prayer Devil Sick Sticks Fake Satan Ems Tape Mary Our Prayers Hail Hail Mary

Author:Eminem

“Every step that produces a single job for a currently unemployed European should be taken. Every centimetre of red tape that puts someone out of work must be torn up.”

Should Jobs Steps Taken Produce Red Tape Torn Every Step Unemployed Red Tape

Author:Timothy Garton Ash

“He made me mess the song up when I looked at him... We can show the kids the tape and say, "Look, that's when we first laid eyes on each other."”

Firsts Looks Made Shows Eye Kids Song Mess Tape

Author:Edie Brickell

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