#tape

In 1980, I moved to Chicago, and I recorded demo tapes for my friends' bands, and in 1981, the first Big Black record - the first thing I did that was an actual record. ↗

— Steve Albini

#bands #big #black #chicago #demo

When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#construct #first #mix #out #song

I thought Nixon was getting ganged up on, but when I heard the tapes, I was shocked and terribly saddened. ↗

— Walter Annenberg

#heard #i #nixon #saddened #shocked

Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#off #out #projects #slowly #sort

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. ↗

— Michael Baden

#body #especially #even #evidence #fibers

I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#i #just #little #performing #play

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. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#among #calls #comedy #dumb #embarrassing

I don't even watch my own show: I tape it, I'm out. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#i #my own #out #own #show

When the idea of 'Chopped' surfaced, it was originally meant to be taped at some guy's mansion with him and his crazy Chihuahua. A stuffy fellow in a tuxedo was to host, and the losing chef's dish was then fed to the dog! I am not kidding, I saw it! I think it is genius! Twisted, but genius! ↗

— Ted Allen

#chef #chihuahua #chopped #crazy #dish

It's - as opposed to tape where you have a magnetic tape that's excited by frequencies that you hit, digital was a process where musical sounds are transferred to numbers and stored as numbers. ↗

— Herb Alpert

#excited #frequencies #hit #magnetic #musical