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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
I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine. -- Barry Bonds
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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 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
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
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
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
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
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
When the audience first sees Cooper talking into his tape recorder at the beginning of 'Twin Peaks,' I think that's the greatest introduction to a character I've seen in my career. It tells you everything about the guy right there in a few minutes as well as bringing up a whole load of questions. -- Kyle MacLachlan
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 first started doing some somewhat technology-based shows in the '80s. If you wanted to get real technical about it, back in the '70s I used to open up with Utopia with just me on the stage with a four-track tape recorder. So, technically, I've been using the help of various devices pretty much throughout my career. -- Todd Rundgren
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 was 4 and dictating stories into a tape recorder, and my mom typed them up. -- Shonda Rhimes
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 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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Death is not complete annihilation. It is a pause. It is like pressing the pause button on a tape recorder. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
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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
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

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