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The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful. -- David Boies
In between that time, I've done book narrating, you know, books on tape for Dove Audio. -- Juice Newton
I love Logic Audio and have been using it for years. All my track outputs used to come up on my old board in the same order as in the old Mac G4 - 1 through 32, came up as 1 through 32, for instance. -- Tony Visconti
Lovers of audio books learn to live with compromise. -- David Sedaris
I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books. -- David Sedaris
It's just different discipline, just doing the voice over. I guess I've done about 5 or 6 audio books in the past and I do the animated voice for a show called Fatherhood on Nickelodeon. -- Blair Underwood
The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with. -- Talib Kweli
At the same time, one of the things I noticed was that the moment there was any kind of audio attached to virtual reality, it really improved the experience, even though the audio didn't feel like a sound engineer or composer had been anywhere near it. -- Thomas Dolby
But audio is a component of video, so there's always been that anyway, and although we've never expressed a visual side apart from the Grateful Dead movie, I don't find it that remote, you know what I mean? It's a departure of sorts, but it's like a first cousin. -- Jerry Garcia
There's nothing definite yet. Of course, any time you have a book, there's going to be book signings and stuff. We'll do bookstores that handle both audio and video. And some of the stores want to have the CDs available at the same time. So that part looks real good. -- Scotty Moore
Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect. -- Daniel Day-Lewis
Audio is the only medium you can consume while you're multitasking. -- Alex Blumberg
If you can understand the humor in the drawing part you'll probably get the humor in the audio part. -- Kid Koala
I foresee online gaming changing when there are good audio-visual links connecting the participants, thus approximating play in a face-to-face group. -- Gary Gygax
Well, whether it's on film or on TV, you don't want to throw too many curves at your audio and video guys. -- Rick Moranis
Audio virology is not a metaphor. It is to be taken literally. It maps real processes of mutation, transmission, contagion and memory within music culture. -- Kode9
I think that audio and video over the internet in the sense of teleconferencing and telephone calls. Maybe we'll actually have picture phone through your work station. -- Jon Postel
We exercise great caution in airing an audio- or videotape released by a terrorist organization holding a hostage. These are decisions made by CNN's editorial staff and not by any third party. -- Jim Walton
So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers. -- Thomas Dolby
Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It's a piece of neural audio technology for rewiring other people's minds. I'm talking about your language. -- Mark Pagel
A well-conceived product excels at what it does. It's close to being functionally flawless - like a Ziploc bag, a radio from Tivoli Audio, a Philips Sonicare toothbrush, a Nespresso coffee maker or Google's home page. -- Gary Hamel
Whether I'm on the road or at home, I get a great deal done on elliptical machines. I use my iPad to conquer my email inbox, listen to audio books, use my Voxer Walkie Talkie app, and read through documents. -- Amy Jo Martin
I was born inside the movie of my life. The visuals were before me, the audio surrounded me, the plot unfolded inevitably but not necessarily. I don't remember how I got into the movie, but it continues to entertain me. -- Roger Ebert
I think it's pretty obvious to most people that Napster is not media specific, but I could see a system like Napster evolving into something that allows users to locate and retrieve different types of data other than just MP3s or audio files. -- Shawn Fanning
From a technical point of view, there seemed to me to be absolutely no reason why - with the existing technology - we couldn't do very high quality audio, because whereas the boom in digital graphics is ongoing, the boom in digital audio has already happened. -- Thomas Dolby
My credentials, briefly: I no longer go to church or believe in God, but I can still name every one of the fruits of the Spirit and reeled for days upon hearing the announcement that Audio Adrenaline was reunited with one of the singers from DC Talk. -- Mallory Ortberg
It's harder to make real audio than special effects audio. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong - I have audio illusions. -- Tom Waits
People aren't going to support an artist just because they have an audio file. They have to feel a real connection. -- Chuck D
I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books. -- Nick Cave
I hate when there's a deleted scene on a DVD with no explanation, or you have to go out of your way to find an alternate audio track. -- Peyton Reed
I've been working with contractors designing and building a house on a nonstop basis since 2005. I learned about all these systems of audio, construction, electricity, energy, water systems. -- Tony Fadell
More academics should blog, post videos, post audio, post lectures, offer articles and more. You'll enjoy it: I've had threats and blackmail, abuse, smears and formal complaints with forged documentation. -- Ben Goldacre
We're all living in a casino. It's just Vegas. Everything is on camera. Everything is being recorded. Everything is on audio. The truth is we all have access to everybody else's information. -- Ashton Kutcher
But, when we started our product portfolio, we focused the mixed signal requirements first for image processing devices and then in audio applications, targeting our technology into the growing use of digital technology in consumer markets. -- David Milne
You have to realize I like doing big movies that appear on a big screen. So the visuals and the audio have to be of a certain quality before I start to get excited about the thing. -- Hans Zimmer
Presidential power was overruled by the high bench in July 1974, when President Nixon was ordered to turn over some audio tapes of his White House conversations, including the 'smoking gun' tape of June 23, 1972, that revealing the Watergate cover up. -- Helen Thomas
Sometimes we need to step back and understand the power of video games. 'Dear Esther' does just that. Through visuals, audio, and narration, this title weaves a story around the player as they explore different areas in the game. -- Rob Manuel
For me and my films, I want my audience to experience cinema in its full glory. It's not just visual, it's audio as well. It's emotional, and I want you to be engaged with not just the scene but with the characters. -- James Wan
Radio astronomy reflects our fascination with how audio can be used to understand information or ideas. Just as scientists visualize data through charts and pictures, we can use 'data sonification' to translate radio signals into sound that help us better understand some of our most enigmatic planetary systems. -- Honor Harger
My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect them with reading that interests them, to expand the definition of reading to include humor, science fiction/fantasy, nonfiction, graphic novels, wordless books, audio books and comic books. -- Jon Scieszka
To me, it's always a joy to create music no matter what it takes to actually get there. The real evils are always whatever stops you from doing that - like if your CPU is spiking and you have to sit there and bounce all your MIDI to audio. Now that's annoying! -- Skrillex
When we did the first 'Uncharted,' we weren't able to capture the audio with the performances. We would go back and do A.D.R. - Automated Dialogue Replacement - in which you would hear yourself and then repeat your line. Even when we were doing that, there was a slight disconnect because you were trying to recreate a performance. -- Nolan North
When I'm in my car, I'm listening to books, audio books, always. -- George Will
One of the things that I think audio is best at is creating empathy. -- Alex Blumberg
Their brilliant audio expert, who is a marine biologist, should really be looking after Flipper -- Rob Halford
Yes, for me audio-visual performance has its roots in my experience working as an improvising musician and composer. -- Kurt Ralske
In a world full of audio visual marvels, may words matter to you and be full of magic. -- Peter Godfrey-Smith
I am a musician who stopped working with music. Now I work with visual music, or audio-visual music. -- Kurt Ralske
We have so much access to video and audio recording equipment that it's kind of the new pen and paper. -- Hannah Hart
My books are offered through Podiobooks.com and the iTunes Music Store as free audio downloads. I don't sell them. -- Nathan Lowell
You must study their deliveries, their use of their bodies, their timing, and their use of audio and vocal effects. -- Franklyn Ajaye
You have to make rough decisions with sequencing and work within the limitations of having good audio for 15 minutes on a vinyl side. -- Tim Hecker
I studied audio engineering at university. The background I am from, music was never seen as a viable career; it was always a hobby. -- Chet Faker
I'm a studio guy. That's really what I love the most. I'm so fascinated with audio gear and recording techniques and whatnot, it's pretty mesmerizing. -- Adam Young
I credit Podiobooks and the free audio podcasts for helping me develop the audience I needed when I started selling my books in text forms. -- Nathan Lowell
I want to do more audio originals because I think that it is a fascinating medium. If you think about it, this is original storytelling. -- David Hewson
I wanted to make feminism more accessible. And I really wanted to engage with my own generation, one that is increasingly speaking in an audio/video multimedia language. -- Anita Sarkeesian
Since I shoot, record audio and edit, I was able to begin the filming without hiring a crew and create a sample to show broadcasters and grant organizations. -- Chris Hegedus
I've been working with contractors designing and building a house on a nonstop basis since I learned about all these systems of audio, construction, electricity, energy, water systems. -- Tony Fadell
What is the ideal audio atmosphere for creativity and it turns out it is not complete silence, and it is not a very loud atmosphere, it's something about 70 decibels. -- Eric Weiner
I had the pleasure of listening to Rickie Lee Jones' Flying Cowboys album on audio cassette, which had just come out at that time because I am an elderly man. -- John Hodgman
Talking to Lee Child and discovering, from his chapter in The Chopin Manuscript, that he's even more of an audio geek than I am (as his chapter in Chopin proves). -- David Hewson
More and more of my audio fans are asking for audiobook versions - files without the intro/outro/etc that go into the podcasts. More and more want them from Audible. -- Nathan Lowell
Images are not only visual. They're also auditory, they involve sensuous impressions, bundles of information that come to us through our senses, and mainly through seeing and hearing: the audio-visual field. -- W. J. T. Mitchell
The death of the music business was insane, but audio recordings have been around now for maybe 120 years. Books have been around for, what, nine centuries? So they're more entrenched than music. -- Stephen King
I love audio books, and when I paint I'm always listening to a book. I find that my imagination really takes flight in the painting process when I'm listening to audio books. -- Thomas Kinkade
Solar bursts typically last from half a minute to a couple of minutes and often sound like a rapid hissing noise followed by a gradual decrease back to the original audio level. -- Honor Harger
We exercise great caution in airing an audio- or videotape released by a terrorist organization holding a hostage. These are decisions made by CNN's editorial staff and not by any third party. -- Jim Walton
Because operators are based thousands of miles away from the battlefield, and undertake operations entirely through computer screens and remote audio feed, there is a risk of developing a 'PlayStation' mentality to killing. -- Philip Alston
All of audio as we know it is an attempt to be more and more perfectly linear. Linearity means higher quality sound. Hypersonic sound is exactly the opposite: it's 100 percent based on non-linearity. -- Woody Norris
I love doing film soundtracks and working with directors on how they want the scene to be portrayed on audio as opposed to visual. I like the collaborative effort of working with people. -- Al Jourgensen
Often people try and just consider music as music, in a musical context. People seem to forget that music is not just audio material - it's also the artwork, the packaging it comes in. -- Herbert
I watched season four of 'The Wire.' They have subtle performances that they do through their eyes. You could watch season four with the audio off and still understand what's happening through their eyes. -- John Boyega
One thing that has happened is a revolution in digital consumer recording, and overall, that's a great thing for art, but parallel to that there's been a revolution in boutique audio companies making excellent gear. -- John Vanderslice

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