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Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders. -- Tony Visconti
We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe. -- Alfred Kinsey
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
In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis. -- Dwight Yoakam
So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas. -- John Frusciante
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
Many of my characters first came through to me as voices. That's why I use a tape recorder. -- William S. Burroughs
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
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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
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
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
I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record. -- Lenny Kravitz
The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder... Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe. -- Douglas Adams
And so it is to the printing press--to the recorder of mans deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news-- that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent. -- John F. Kennedy
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 was getting Monkees Monthly and there was a competition to draw a Monkee. I did a caricature of Micky Dolenz and won 10 pounds-a fantastic sum of money for me then. I bought a secondhand tape recorder, which further launched me. They've been very responsible for me getting started. -- Andy Partridge
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 little kid I loved the Marx brothers and discovered Monty Python when I was 10 or 11-years-old. I used to take a tape recorder and hold it up in front of the TV to record entire episodes to play over and over again, so that I could memorise it. -- Rainn Wilson
The beauty of having a studio is I can go in and record any time I want to, so you can always put down your ideas or whatever. You use your voice recorder and, you know, take your voice notes down and just preserve all the little jewels and gems when you're in there, putting that song together. -- Big Boi
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
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
Most of our writers tend to be recorders. -- Gore Vidal
I had this fascination with four-track recorders when I was in high school. -- Patrick Carney
I like making little videos and little records. I've always loved video cameras and four-track cassette recorders, still cameras, anything. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
In the Digital Age, recorders also tend to be oversharers, and with Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest, they can do so on a grand scale. -- Graydon Carter
As a kid, I thought movies were boring. My parents would hire VHS recorders for the weekend and watch Bollywood movies. I'd get bored and go out to Stoke Newington common to play football. -- Asif Kapadia
I'm a bit of an insomniac. I'm always thinking. I've got a lot of ideas for lyrics and shows. I have a notepad by the side of the bed and voice recorders around the house. -- Kid Rock
I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders. -- Brian Eno
I was lucky enough to go to an all-boys prep school in upstate New York that had a film program, so we had access to 16mm Bolex cameras, Nagra sound recorders, Arriflex cameras. We even had an Oxberry animation stand! -- Warren Spector
I've never been one to think it was cheating to sample this or to loop the drum part there - I've always done that. Even using four-track cassette recorders, I was always doing whatever I could to make it as good as I could. -- James Mercer
My relationship with the journalists who covered the campaign was complicated. I often hid from the critical eye of their cameras and their omnipresent digital recorders, wary of the critique implicit in every captured moment. But I also grew to respect and understand their passion for their work, their love for the journey we were sharing. -- Alexandra Kerry
You were playing your instruments? Or do you have tape recorders under your seats? -- Prince Philip
We ain't have video recorders back in high school, or at least we couldn't afford them. -- Sean Price
When I was a teenager, I got into four track recorders, drum machines, and synthesizers, and I started producing instrumental music. -- Duncan Sheik

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