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In this 21st century, bedtime doesn't matter at all. All that matters is what you set for your DVR [Digital Video Recorder]. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas. -- John Frusciante
I ain't never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder. -- Dolly Parton
Music always hits me when I'm driving so I keep a recorder in my bag. -- Angie Stone
Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin. -- Ivan Pavlov
Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live! -- Dev Hynes
I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting. -- Jhumpa Lahiri
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
Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it. -- Levon Helm
As a 13, - 14-year-old kid, I'd sit on my bed with a tape recorder and a newspaper. I would do my own newscast. I would practice my diction. -- Lester Holt
I'll have to have a room of my own. Nobody could sleep with Dick. He wakes up during the night, switches on the lights, speaks into his tape recorder. -- Pat Nixon
Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant 'Da da da da' instead of 'Boom boom boom boom!' Who knows? -- Eddie Van Halen
After years of begging, I got my parents to get me a little Craig tape recorder, a reel to reel. Then I started recording voices, or recording Jonathan Winters off television and stuff like that. -- Dana Carvey
The country is not a democratic state. Therefore we fear that they might carry a recorder in their pocket or there may be bugs in the walls, and you cannot be absolutely sure that you get a straight testimony. -- Hans Blix
I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game. -- Ed Bradley
When Paul and I were first friends, starting in the sixth grade and seventh grade, we would sing a little together and we would make up radio shows and become disc jockeys on our home wire recorder. And then came rock and roll. -- Art Garfunkel
The first six years of a child's life, it is like a tape recorder is on. Everything it sees, smells, touches, experiences in any way, whatever it hears, is being downloaded into the brain before the consciousness of the child is even made apparent. -- Bruce Lipton
Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take notes or use a tape recorder, but I suspect his memory claims were just a useful cover to invent dialogue whole cloth. -- Joshua Foer
I mean, I haven't been around very long. I can't expect everyone to have seen 'The House Bunny'. Oh God. I am having such waves of internal embarrassment, which now I'm admitting on a tape recorder. This is so one of the things I should keep in my head. -- Emma Stone
I usually dream of melodies. When I wake up I have them in my head. I usually come up with things in the middle of the night because that's when my mind is the quietest. I always have my tape recorder, pen and pad by my bed just in case. -- Leona Lewis
When I was a child, life felt so slow because all I wanted to do was get into show business. Each day seemed like a year, but when you get older, years pass like minutes. I wish there was a tape recorder where we could just slow our lives down. -- Bruce Forsyth
I get like a melody that comes up and I try to write it down or record it. Hum it into a tape recorder or write it down on some manuscript paper. It could happen at any time, on the road or off the road, but mostly, you know, at home. -- Paul Taylor
Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder. -- Tom Waits
I knew absolutely nothing about recording. I had this four-track recorder, and I'd plug my electric guitar right into it, which sounded real bad. I moved any fader that made a drastic change in sound. I thought that was cool - that it was communicating something. I didn't have the skills to do anything subtle. It was just like screaming. -- Bill Callahan
I have a tape recorder, and I just sing into it. I like to write that way. Sometimes I'll just get melodic ideas, and then I'll go home and sit down and add the lyrics. Or sometimes I'll get a lyric idea that I love. Usually it's pretty combined. Usually I get some kind of a lyrical concept and a melody and work with that. -- Melora Hardin
Somebody talked me into writing an autobiography about six or seven years ago. And I said I'd try. We talked into a tape recorder, and after a couple of months, I said, To hell with it. I was so depressed. It was like saying, 'This is the end.' I was more interested in what the hell was coming the next day or the next week. -- Rupert Murdoch
A lot of writing I do on tour. I do a lot on airplanes. At home, I write a lot, obviously. When I write a song, what I usually do is work the lyric out first from some basic idea that I had, and then I get an acoustic guitar and I sit by the tape recorder and I try to bang it out as it comes. -- Pete Townshend
Life is marvelous now because I have a tape recorder. -- Olga Korbut
I love threats. They make great quotes. Is that recorder working, Irene? -- Jayne Ann Krentz
I see myself as a recorder of history, sort of a visual historian. -- David Burnett
I was 4 and dictating stories into a tape recorder, and my mom typed them up. -- Shonda Rhimes
Of course, the recorder will never have the repertoire of the piano or the violin. -- Michala Petri
If you want to kill off a child's interest in music, get them a recorder. -- Lawrence English
Many of my characters first came through to me as voices. That's why I use a tape recorder. -- William S. Burroughs
I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them -- Barry Gibb
I was broadcast-struck from an early age; I had saved up for a tape recorder and started making programmes. -- Nigel Rees
I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine. -- Barry Bonds
Death is not complete annihilation. It is a pause. It is like pressing the pause button on a tape recorder. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
I wanted to get a tape recorder, but I got a parrot instead. I think I did that joke backwards. -- Mitch Hedberg
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If the black box flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn't the whole airplane made out of that stuff? -- George Carlin
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I wouldn't mind someone lobbing hand grenades at me, but having to reset the timer on the video recorder puts me into a blood-spitting frenzy. -- Stephen Bayley
The camera is more than a recorder, it's a microscope. It penetrates, it goes into people and you see their most private and concealed thoughts. -- Elia Kazan
Everything I'm doing musically is for its own sake. I'm recording at my house, trying really hard to write songs with a four-track tape recorder. -- Bucky Pope
right' i said. 'but first, we need the car. and after that, the cocaine. and then the tape recorder, for special music, and some acapulco shirts. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Right' i said. 'but first, we need the car. and after that, the cocaine. and then the tape recorder, for special music, and some acapulco shirts." -- Hunter S. Thompson
Every single morning, I have a person sitting right there next to me in prayer with a tape recorder - and a song comes up every day. -- Andrae Crouch
When I was doing interviews at the FBI, my tape recorder battery died. They gave me a new one, and I said, 'Of course, this is bugged?' -- Ronald Kessler
I thought, 'If I'm going to die, I'm going to videotape it.' So I got out my little video recorder and was taping goodbyes to my family. -- Estella Warren
Looking for inspiration in expression, I have actually always looked to singers and violinists. I have never really looked only at the recorder as a remedy for my expressions. -- Michala Petri
Today is a time of turbulence and stagnation, of threat and promise from a competitor: the magic, omnivorous videocassette recorder (VCR). In other words, it is business as usual. -- Richard Corliss
I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school. -- Brian Eno
There are many forms of photography. I consider myself simply a recorder of that which I find of interest around me. I personally have no desire to create or stage direct ideas. -- David Hurn
To me, the advantage of the recorder is that it is so natural. I love the fact that it is just a piece of wood, that there are almost no mechanics involved. -- Michala Petri
Well, if you're not a man in glasses standing in front of me with a tape recorder going like this, I can't see anything. But if you are, then I see perfectly well. -- Colm Feore
I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just turn it on and just start doing voices and characters. I just loved it. -- Harland Williams
I played recorder in assembly, then I became passionate about the guitar, I don't know why. I started on electric then moved to acoustic - my brother was playing bass in the next room. -- Ellie Goulding

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