#microphone

When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I'm about to do. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#bit #down #get #i #idea

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

— Patti LaBelle

#handle #i #kid #microphone #pretended

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

#about #drum #every #every time #everybody

I found at an early age the times when I learned the most about myself was when I got thrown out there on a stage in front of a microphone when you didn't really want to be out there, where you're kind of afraid. ↗

— Andrew Shue

#afraid #age #early #early age #found

I did things with the microphone stand that no-one else has attempted to do. ↗

— Rod Stewart

#did #else #i #microphone #no-one

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

Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#completely #crowd #family #father #fringe

Rigging a loudspeaker and a microphone at both ends of a sewer pipe. ↗

— Leonard Chess

#ends #microphone #pipe #rigging #sewer

A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rather than someone who is bashing a plank and is spitting all over a microphone. ↗

— Graham Coxon

#like #me #microphone #more #over

I apologize in my real life all the time. I say ridiculous things, I make mistakes constantly. But when I'm on stage, I'm at a microphone... it's a joke! ↗

— Kathy Griffin

#constantly #i #joke #life #make