#microphone

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. ↗

— Robert Plant

#could #down #even #felt #how

I was a shy kid with a broom handle that I pretended was a microphone. ↗

— Patti LaBelle

#handle #i #kid #microphone #pretended

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

#guy #here #his #microphone #movies

I loved the Cure and Bauhaus and the Smiths. The people in my town weren't privy to that kind of music and I got abused. I discovered the microphone to get out some of that angst. ↗

— Fred Durst

#cure #discovered #get #got #i

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

#common #contact #din #horrible #i

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

#audience #boils #communicating #despite #down

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

#audience #basically #boils #changed #communicating

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

— Lita Ford

#hands #i #like #microphone #stuck

People like my voice and say I can sing, but I don't like microphones in front of my face: it distracts me. ↗

— Bernie Worrell

#face #front #i #i can #like

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

#bass #drum #every #every night #front