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  • Bob Dylan has always sealed his decisions with the unexplainable. His motives for withholding the release of the magnificent 'Basement Tapes' will be as forever obscure as Brian Wilson's reasons for the destruction of the tapes for 'Smile.' -- Jon Landau
  • Tapes, as we all know, are very powerful evidence. Tapes that are altered are powerfully misleading. -- Brendan Sullivan
  • Man, if it weren't for Bill's Records and Tapes I would've been an accountant like my dad. I love my dad, but thank God for Bill's. -- Ryan Miller
  • After waiting four long years since the Lost CHIC Tapes were recovered, I'm finally putting out our first record. I'm like a child waiting for Christmas morning. -- Nile Rodgers
  • The Astonishment Tapes will now take its place within the growing field of international research about postwar American poetry's important contribution to world literature. Miriam Nichols has once again done exceptional scholarship. -- Peter Gizzi
  • We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs. -- Michael Shermer
  • I graduated from high school in 1963. There were no computers, cell phones, Internet, credit cards, cassette tapes or cable TV. -- Jeffrey Gitomer
  • If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them. -- Bill Hicks
  • If people are really excited about their music, and that's their primary motivation, then that comes through in demo tapes. That's the most important ingredient. -- Greg Ginn
  • They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh? -- Kanye West
  • If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect. -- Richard M. Nixon
  • I don't think my life would be significantly poorer if I don't impersonate Nick Clegg. Life is short enough without sitting up night after night listening to tapes of him. -- Rory Bremner
  • I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though. I'm sort of a librarian. -- Ian MacKaye
  • After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes. -- Bob Woodward
  • When digital technology started becoming the norm, you've got 50, 60, 70 years of recordings on tapes that are just deteriorating. Like, a two-inch reel of recording tape won't last forever. It dissolves. It will disappear. -- Dave Grohl
  • If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation. -- Earl Warren
  • While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then. -- Garth Brooks
  • I have a box of things from Becca, my high school girlfriend, and Vanessa; and each one of them was love. I have the notes, the valentines, 20 mixed tapes, all of it. It's important to keep that stuff. -- Oliver Hudson
  • 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
  • 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
  • I was 14 and madly in love for the first time. He was 21. He made me suddenly, unaccustomedly beautiful with his kisses and mix tapes. During the year of elation and longing, he never mentioned that he had a girlfriend who lived across the street. -- Daphne Gottlieb
  • It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you're too awkward to do it. -- John Cusack
  • The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating effect on Afghan culture and the artistic scene. The Taliban burned countless films, VCRs, music tapes, books, and paintings. They jailed filmmakers, musicians, painters, and sculptors. -- Khaled Hosseini
  • Walt Disney had always tried to get more dimension in his animation and when I saw these tapes, I thought, This is it! This is what Walt was waiting for! But when I looked around, nobody at the studio at the time was even halfway interested in it. -- John Lasseter
  • I've got tapes that I'm so thankful that my father made - old reel-to-reel tapes. I've got a ton of those things at home. He kept those like fine diamonds, I mean he kept them, you know, in a box and was very, very careful of them, you know. -- Ricky Skaggs
  • If you listen to my tapes, you'd hear 14 different ways to arrange the rhythm guitar behind the harmony vocal, and then 14 different ways with a different vocal. You'd have to really be a music lover to sit through that and find it entertaining. I enjoy it, but I'm easy to please. -- Tom Scholz
  • The people I idolized I saw once a year on the Tony Awards. I would buy the cassette tapes of the various Broadway shows and scour the photos inside the recording package. That's how I exposed myself to the arts - New York and professional theater felt like a very distant thing. -- Jesse Tyler Ferguson
  • Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit, listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And, tell you the truth, I have done that for maybe about five total minutes. -- Dan Rather
  • I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them. -- Harmony Korine
  • More than 30 years ago, in Washington, D.C., I secured a copy of a single by a Los Angeles band called The Bags. The two-song 7-inch, released on Dangerhouse, had a girl on the cover who looked right at you with huge eyes. The songs, 'Survive' and 'Babylonian Gorgon,' were great and made many of my mix tapes. -- Henry Rollins
  • People's arrest tapes, mug shots, everything is online. -- Jane Krakowski
  • At fourteen, I started sending out demo tapes. -- LL Cool J
  • No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car. -- Al Yankovic
  • It looks like they've been watching old Japan tapes! -- CM Punk
  • We passed the hash pipe and played our Doors tapes. -- Billy Joel
  • Well, I did a harmonica instruction tape for Homespun tapes. -- John Sebastian
  • Opinions are like demo tapes. I don't want to hear yours -- Stephen Colbert
  • Well, I'm a tape-recording nut. I like to play my tapes. -- Tony Randall
  • Start as early as you can. Make tapes of your characters. -- Tara Strong
  • I have everything in boxes. Thousands of those tapes. I've saved everything. -- Patti Hansen
  • If everyone had a dad like mine, no one would have sex tapes. -- Tina Fey
  • I was under medication when I made the decision to burn the tapes. -- Richard M. Nixon
  • And I suppose tapes are a desperate attempt to steal something from Death's suitcase. -- Mitch Albom
  • Read books, listen to tapes, attend seminars-they are decades of wisdom reduced to invaluable hours. -- Mark Victor Hansen
  • Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum
  • There are all kinds of mix tapes. there is always a reason to make one. -- Rob Sheffield
  • I like Stevie Wonder. I usually wind up playing the same old tapes in the car. -- Elton John
  • I love the Digital Era! I grew up in a time that started from cassette tapes. -- Yukmouth
  • I can barely listen to my tapes when I'm transcribing, because I can't stand how I sound. -- Jancee Dunn
  • I can't get a relationship to last longer than it takes to make copies of their tapes. -- Margaret Smith
  • When I listen to those tapes now, the real cocaine shows; there's just nothing special about their content. -- George Carlin
  • Those [Watergate] tapes are going to take me to my grave with a huge smile on my face.. -- Ben Bradlee
  • I was 23 with a mullet doing lots of jerk-off material.I can't look at the old tapes now. -- Doug Stanhope
  • All tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums. -- Terry Pratchett
  • I adore the work of Stephen Sondheim. I like musicales in general. They make surprisingly great running tapes. -- Laura Lippman
  • And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe. -- Hanoi Hannah
  • I don't use backing tapes when I am singing and dancing on stage. I can do cartwheels and sing. -- Beyonce Knowles
  • My romantically favorite era is 78, 79 listening to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 4, the live tapes, echo chamber and break beats. -- Kool Moe Dee
  • I thought Nixon was getting ganged up on, but when I heard the tapes, I was shocked and terribly saddened. -- Walter Annenberg
  • I'm making tapes for insomniacs to use in the future. I'm going to sell them as a kit to cure insomnia. -- Jonathan Turley
  • I listen to tapes a lot. I have a car that only (has a cassette player). I like the nostalgic factor. -- Angel Olsen
  • I dug up my dad's old Fred Astaire tapes, and now I find him super-inspiring. He's, like, one of the best dancers. -- Adam G. Sevani
  • I'm endlessly putting myself on tapes for things over in America! I'm always sitting at home, learning lines, sending stuff to America. -- Arthur Darvill
  • I can kind of envision one person with a lot of machines, tapes, and electronic set-ups...singi ng or speaking and using machines... -- Jim Morrison
  • Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions and she was clearly putting far too much time and energy into them. -- David Nicholls
  • Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind: any tune we choose so long as it does not disturb others. -- Jonathan Sacks
  • Everyone of us plays 'tapes' from our parents until we die. That's why it's so important to talk good values to your child -- Dennis Prager
  • He was the boy that made mix tapes with themes and hand-colored covers until the day he hit my sister and stopped crying. -- Stephen Chbosky
  • At the end of each day, you should play back the tapes of your performance. The results should either applaud you or prod you. -- Jim Rohn
  • We've had incredibly huge obstacles in our way - no tapes, no royalties, no cooperation on any level - and we sort it out. -- Kevin Shields
  • My first super-worn-out tapes were Michael Jackson's 'Bad' and the soundtrack to 'Dirty Dancing.' The soundtrack to 'Dirty Dancing' is actually really phenomenal. -- Autre Ne Veut
  • The White House tapes, the recordings that Nixon made of his conversations in office, have long been recognized as a marvel of verbal incontinence. -- Pankaj Mishra
  • There's homophobia in every corner and pocket of this world but at the core you just love someone and want to make mixed tapes for them. -- Sara Quin
  • I listened to a lot of tapes of British theatre actresses and tried to learn from them. As Americans, we don't have such a gift with language. -- Angelina Jolie
  • That's why those tapes we made are going to be so great one day, because they'll tell stories that time has swallowed up or distorted or whatever. -- John Green
  • When I look back at the tapes, your first everything, your first All-Star Game, your first playoff experience, it just seems like it went by really fast. -- Roger Clemens
  • The difference between fiction and journalism is that you can disguise the characters, so you won't get your legs broken, and there's no interview tapes to transcribe. -- Sylvie Simmons
  • I watched tapes and became a historian of the sport, and tried to combine certain elements and find things in the gym and saw what worked for me. -- Holt McCallany
  • The most exciting part of the casting process was casting out of Israel, which was a really unique process, mainly done remotely from California, looking at casting tapes. -- Tim Kring
  • I'm so used to taping myself and sending it off and never hearing back. I started to believe that nobody actually ever sees my tapes, apart from my agent. -- Holliday Grainger
  • I've always sung. I was really into musical theater when I was growing up. As a kid, I listened to Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone, actually, on cassette tapes. -- Gugu Mbatha-Raw
  • Mix-tapes are something that have been going on for a while. They've been pretty important to hip-hop. It's the way we advertise our music to the public for free. -- Wale
  • I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon's Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying to figure out who was leaking and providing information to Carl and myself. -- Bob Woodward
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  • She had five tapes from him now - which meant, if her batteries lasted, she had four hundred and fifty minutes to spend with Park in her head, holding his hand. -- Rainbow Rowell
  • I'm not an Internet artist, I didn't get discovered on the Internet - I got discovered pushing my mix tapes on the street, walking on foot, going to parties, passing them out. -- Tyga
  • 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
  • We sent out tapes to the others but they didn't wake up. It was worth it just to have one kid wake up. I got to meet him after he woke up. -- Lemmy Kilmister
  • I grew up listening to Commission, Kirk Franklin and Hezekiah Walker. If I was found listening to any rap, my pops would throw them out, or crush the CDs and tapes - literally. -- Rahki
  • It's big production. It's huge. It's using studio technology to your benefit. You don't go in and play live and then just take the tapes and get them mastered. You have to create. -- Joe Elliott
  • When I was 10, 11, 12 years old, I would pretend to be on the radio. I bought a mixer and these big, ugly headphones and I would literally broadcast the cassette tapes in my bedroom. -- Ryan Seacrest
  • When I wrote my eighth thriller, Inside Out, in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners. -- Barry Eisler
  • I had the time to take the original analog tapes and fix all the things I didn't like, so all I left was essentially the benefits of the analog with none of the disadvantages. -- Kevin Shields
  • I've taken salsa classes. I love dancing and I love to karaoke. So I bought a microphone with some tapes and my son and I karaoke. I know the entire 'Dora the Explorer' soundtrack. -- Sherri Shepherd
  • I hope you're ready, because I'm about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended. And if you're listening to these tapes, you're one of the reasons why. -- Jay Asher
  • It's easy to make a pirate copy when you have digital tapes of things. And it was so complicated and complex to go through all the post-production of a movie without ever going digital. -- Jose Padilha
  • This music that was supposed to only come from tapes like in any restaurant. Something would happened. One bird will start to do a little jazz thing, and another bird will start to answer. -- John Hench
  • I've been doing American auditions for a while, and it always felt sort of like sending these audition tapes off into the ether. So just hearing anything back from anyone was kind of startling. -- Xavier Samuel
  • When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners. -- Barry Eisler
  • The Sicilian Defense album was never released and never will be if I have anything to do with it. I have not heard it since it was finished. I hope the tapes no longer exist. -- Alan Parsons
  • I went to Washington to ask for a little residual payment for the people who had written films in the early, early days, people who never got any residuals on tapes or anything at all. -- Fay Wray
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