Microphone Quotes

I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.
Kary Mullis

Love, Big, Guess

Yes, I always say that we're a National League band. What I mean is, if you play an instrument, you have to sing. So I always call our drummer up. Even the drummer has to take a turn on the microphone.
Emmylou Harris

Mean, Play, Call

It's funny, though, because when I first started going to races after we met, I was extremely nervous. It's like being backstage and hoping you don't trip over something or break an amp or accidentally speak into a live microphone, so I was really hesitant.
Ashley Judd

Funny, Live, After

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.
Michael Bolton

Movies, Tough, Here

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.
Bob Edwards

Love, Enjoy, Talking

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

Eyes, Secrets, Audience

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

Done, Read, News

I play a percussion instrument, not a musical saw; it needs no amplification. Where it's needed, they put a microphone in front of the bass drum. But, I don't think it's necessary to play that way every night.
Buddy Rich

Night, Play, Put

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.
Chad Smith

Nice, Live, Away

I started doing some demos and got online and bought a refurbished laptop, bought a microphone off of eBay. A lot of folks said you can't really do it that way at a pro level, but I did some vocals that way, turned it into the label and they said, 'Wow, where did you record this? The vocals sound great!'
Rodney Atkins

Great, Said, Off

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.
Doug E. Fresh

Happen, Started, Fresh

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

Hands, Front, Stuck

When it comes down to the music, it's just you and the microphone. It's not you and the record execs.
Rita Ora

And my mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone.
Julian Castro

Mother, Hard, Rights

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.
Michael K. Powell

Home, Nothing, Free

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

Everything, Big, Early

Every time I talk about this, I say: when the singer is singing, he must be respected, you must be able to hear what he's saying. You can't put a trombone and a drum up there, and a microphone on the drum, microphones on everybody. You can't hear what he's saying.
Compay Segundo

Time, Saying, Put

I always say the best applause you can get is when you walk from backstage up to your microphone at a concert. It's also nice to walk up to the mike at an awards show, and that applause is great, too, but the best is when your fans are cheering for you.
Dierks Bentley

Great, Best, Nice

I heard the Beatles and the Stones, and Mom bought me an electric guitar. I played lead for four years and then switched to bass. One day someone suggested that I should sing, so I sheepishly stepped up to the microphone and the rest is rock history.
Glenn Hughes

History, Mom, Rock

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.
Casey Kasem

Music, Woman, Down

I keep these songs in my head until I get behind the microphone. I never spend more than 30 or 40 minutes singing the vocal or it will sound mechanical. There are always mistakes, but it's about feeling more than being perfect.
Brian McKnight

Mistakes, Feeling, Perfect

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

Today, Balanced, Bracelet

O'Reilly continues to hide behind his microphone.
Robert Greenwald

Behind, Hide, Continues

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.
Casey Kasum

Music, Woman, Down

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.
Eugene Chadbourne

Put, Place, Started

Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff.
Roger McGuinn

Experience, Help, Put

The way they had the room that I was in set up, there was some sort of sound deadening platform that I had to stand on in order to get close enough to the microphone.
Phil Harris

Enough, Stand, Order

I would just sweat so much. I'd be dry when I run on the stage. By the time I got in front of the microphone, it just, just like a river pouring out. I don't know what made that happen. It took five years for that to stop happening to me.
Nickolas Ashford

Time, Happen, Made

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!
Paul Darrow

Good, Character, Play

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.
Ozzie Smith

Real, Touch, Behind

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