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Quotes About Tape

I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody'. I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A. It's four chapters.
~ Jack Kerouac
I've talked about commodity price volatility in the past: go back to the tape... I never said it was about inflation.
~ Rick Santelli
My first crush was Barry Manilow. He performed on TV and I taped it. When no one was around I'd kiss the screen.
~ Janet Jackson
Even though it doesn't look like it, I run. On a treadmill. And I bounce around to all the songs on my iPod - the Pixies, Wagner, Richard and Linda Thompson, even books on tape. Just not self-help ones.
~ Bill Hader
I have some vivid memories of walking around as a child with a cassette tape.
~ James Vincent McMorrow
his whole body itching with the desire to ask questions. I need some tape to put over my mouth, he thought.
~ James Dashner
He suddenly remembered the tape he had taken from Susan's answering machine, and hoped to God there wasn't anything more important in Gordon's message than ravings about rabbits.
~ Douglas Adams
What the photon is it?" "Oh, just some five-million-year-old tape that's being broadcast at us." "A what? A recording?
~ Douglas Adams
I've heard a tape of collected kakapo noises, and it's almost impossible to believe that it all just comes from a bird, or indeed any kind of animal. Pink Floyd studio out-takes perhaps, but not a parrot.
~ Douglas Adams
Finally, you'll tell the truth. I've read so many lies about the project I can hardly stand it. If this book can set the record straight—well, you'll be doing us a service. And I hope you won't mind if I turn on my own tape recorder while we talk. It isn't that I don't trust you. . .
~ Douglas Preston
When something is coming off of a Neve board and being laid down on tape, it's like a warm blanket for the brain. When you're working in a digital form, it's so harsh; it's almost painful. Your ears get more fatigued if you're mixing all day.
~ Jenny Lewis
The records that I like, they have life and warmth and soul in them. Like the slap back on Scotty Moore's guitar on 'Mystery Train.' You're not gonna get that in a computer. You're gonna want a live room, you're gonna wanna bounce the tape, you're gonna want real musicians, in a room, vibin' off of each other.
~ Channing Tatum
I like being able to tape things and then having them home waiting for you, but just dealing with the Time Warner Cable people will drive you insane.
~ Amy Heckerling
you'll be given a tape machine which is about the size of a box of popcorn. It weighs six pounds. With it, you'll be given sixty tape clips which are about four inches long. The equipment will fit inside a coat pocket without a bulge. It's a triumph of modern technology.
~ Richard Bachman
I had a nightmare that I slept without my nose tape on thank God it wasn't true!
~ Heidi Montag
I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good no matter how much money you had.
~ Terry Riley
Last night I played a blank tape at full blast. The mime next door went nuts.
~ Steven Wright
I wanted to get a tape recorder, but I got a parrot instead. I think I did that joke backwards.
~ Mitch Hedberg
I put tape on the mirrors in my house so I don't accidentally walk through into another dimension.
~ Steven Wright
Last year we drove across the country...We had one cassette tape to listen to on the entire trip... I don't remember what it was.
~ Steven Wright
For this event, Richey insists on taking a suicidal Joy Division tape along as backing music. "Oh yeah!" mocks Nicky. "That'll really get the tea party rockin'!
~ Jason Arnopp
I was really, because I thought it was extremely excruciating when I watched a tape of it, that my husband taped for me and I never watched it again after that.
~ Jo Brand
Our producer Jon Davison thought it would be a good idea to put in additional TV scenes. So, they sent me a tape of these additional TV scenes, and I watched them, and I didn't think they were that great. I didn't think it was worth putting them in.
~ David Zucker
The task he has chosen for himself, of wooing my mother with a bright red pickup truck, a Patsy Cline tape, and a string of malapropisms, is ample justification to me for not taking the world too seriously, its relentless heartbreak notwithstanding.
~ Richard Russo