Microphone Quotations

Also, from a technical point of view, as you're standing in front of a microphone all day, it's quite a good idea that I should play a laid back sort of character because if he was too frenetic, I'd be exhausted by lunch!

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.

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.

The economics favour one-man comedy shows: all you need is one person, a microphone and a PA system. But I'm pleased so many people are making a living out of comedy - it's a wonderful business to be in.

You can sell nothing for a mark-up for a while, but only until something starts eating away at it. Now I can go home and click on Yahoo, call my sister and talk over a microphone for free.

I feel like something I've wanted to do for a really long time, in a feature film or anything, is playing a rocker. Somewhere where I can be on a stage and have a guitar or a microphone and just kind of jam out.

Man, if I get a chance to speak on the microphone, I've got to say something somewhere in there. You know, I'm going to laugh and have fun, too, but something has to be said that has some substance, because this is a platform, and the power that we have with words and with this microphone is phenomenal.

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!

I become a better actor after I step on a stage in front of, like, 500 people when it's just me, a microphone and my guitar. You don't get as nervous walking into a room in front of 3 or 4 people and to do a scene or to walk on a set. You gain confidence.

You won't see me at a microphone singing and tapping my foot. I spend a lot of money on sets, costumes and sound. I believe people deserve a show. I'm a singer, musician, dancer. I work hard, and I'm soaking wet when I come off.

Oh, I'm a great believer in the power of the pause. Radio is a bit brasher now. My style was slower. I just used to go in, open the microphone and say the first thing that came into my head.

I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.

When you get to the end of a TV series, you feel totally out of sorts as an actor. You feel unfit; your voice box has collapsed on you because you've spent all day muttering into a microphone that's two inches from your head, and you feel desperate to spread your wings and do a bit of real thesping.

Girl, you've been everywhere there's been a microphone and a stage.

I feel so incredibly vulnerable and exposed when I have to talk into a microphone and bare my soul so to speak.

He was kind of irritated about the sound system. They had a microphone in the piano, and it was feeding back.

He collapsed at the end of our show, and was still singing on the ground; we had to take the microphone away from him.

If it's a discussion every day, it's a discussion every day. If it's a little microphone I throw in his earpiece ... I'll just tell him to hit stand-up doubles, that's all.

He had the microphone first, the instinct to broadcast, to be there. He didn't hesitate. He scooped the world.

Well any man with a microphone can tell you what he loves the most and you know why you love at all if you're thinking of the holy ghost if you're thinking of the holy ghost.

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.

With a good script, a good director can produce a masterpiece. With the same script, a mediocre director can produce a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can't possibly make a good film. For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water. The script must be something that has the power to do this

We don't look like anything most of the people in our audience have ever seen. We wear vintage clothes-and hats-and we use one microphone for all our vocals, so there's a lot of movement on stage. We'll have every kind of harmony; every instrument will be featured; and we'll do everything from breakdowns to waltzes to gospel quartets. I guarantee this: from the moment we hit the stage until the moment we leave, the audience is going to be entertained.

What is going on on the island is encouraging a cacophony of opinion, freely donated by whoever has a microphone in front of their mouth.

These resolutions are an expression of the will of the people that is simply not being heard on Capitol Hill. This is direct democracy, and it gives average Americans a microphone to say 'I am frustrated, I want my tax dollars spent in my own town, I want our children back home.' It's a unique and exciting new avenue for regular people to make their voices heard.

When you have members of Congress literally tripping over themselves to run to a microphone and they're saying, 'The Arabs are coming, the Arabs are coming,' preying off that fear because it's an Arab country, that constitutes bigotry.

The Rolling Stones were aware of our plan which was to simply lower the volume on his microphone at those two appropriate moments. We had agreed to that plan earlier in the week. The Stones were aware of it and they were fine with it.

You'd think that after three decades on the radio he'd know when a microphone was on. But no, there were several instances of profanity on the air.

Rap is simply more compelling in a club or on disc or video. I don't want to be too harsh on them, but how exciting is it to see a guy with a microphone onstage with video behind him and a few guys walking around? It's not like having a band up there with guitars and drums.

Someone tampered with the electricity and the microphone was cut off.

Something about being given that microphone and if you're dressed right and the spotlights are on you, how can you not play that stuff?

As long as everyone uses good microphone etiquette, it should go fine.

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.

Already very early I thought of a microphone as a musical instrument, like a bow or like a percussion instrument, whatever you use.

After we drill it down, we'll use the drill steel to pound and attempt to get signals back if there is anyone underground in that area. After we signal for three times and if we don't get a response, we'll pull the drill steel out and drop a camera and microphone into the hole.

If so, I believe people would come to a microphone and speak in favor of this proposal and against a more radical proposal.

The band makes sure that nobody has more fun than we do. We have lots of fun. I'm not kidding. You stick a microphone in front of us, and we just have a ball.

The microphone was put in his face at the end of the game, and he desperately wanted that rushing title, and I wanted it for him. But he missed out, so he blurted something out. The very next day we talked, and as far as he and I were concerned, that was over.

It's called the right-wing noise machine, and now you have one of the chief noise-makers being given the microphone and podium in the people's house.

It's weird but I've never really been the type to have fixations on the leading man actor. I've always been drawn more to the rock star. I love a guy on the microphone commanding an audience.

Hip hop is one guy with a microphone rapping over a beat, ... Theres not much of a visual component. Theres no drummer or guitarist going off on riffs.

Hip-hop is one guy with a microphone rapping over a beat. There's not much of a visual component. There's no drummer or guitarist going off on riffs.

I didn't learn as much from him on the road as I did in 10 minutes in the studio. He did some vocals, and I learned about microphone technique watching him in the studio.

As visual metaphors go, it was a lavishly gilded lily of an image, a hanging curveball across the plate, a George Tenet-style slam-dunk: A weary President Bush, trying to escape a news conference in Beijing on Sunday, strides away from the microphone to a pair of locked doors, which he pulls and tugs in vain. No exit, the image screamed. No way out. Of course, George Bush will inevitably get out of the mess he has made -- he leaves office in three years and two months, not that anyone's counting. But the rest of us will be left with his handiwork: crushing national debt, rising economic inequality, a poisoned political atmosphere and, oh, yes, the war in Iraq. We're the ones trapped in the dark with no exit sign in sight.

He's got a microphone in front of his face all the time. Do I like the remarks? No. But I'm not going to worry about getting on the phone every time someone says something.

I can remember when Billy wouldn't say six words. Now you can't get the microphone away from him.