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Quotes About Microphone

When people heckle me, I have the microphone. And the press has the microphone.
~ Joy Behar
Then the auctioneer introduced himself [,,,,]. He started to speak into the microphone, a maddening, jammed-up sequence of words that crashed like bumper cars, after which everything sorted itself into some kind of sense again, and after the fact you could understand most of what he'd said.
~ Ann Beattie
Dana White hides behind a microphone and behind a TV camera and spouts off and calls people names because he doesn't like their opinion.
~ Ken Shamrock
Our new routine didn't require a stage or a microphone. Comedy isn't just words, syllables, phonemes. It's not just parking meters and airplane food and bad weather and tired punchlines. It's seeing what no one else sees and saying what no one else wants to say.
~ Robert Guffey
I'm only just learning what language to use when I want my microphone turned down, you know, because it's all so new to me. It can be quite difficult on a daily basis to communicate with the people I work with, so I'm just looking forward to knowing more.
~ Duffy
When I approached him a second time with the cameras rolling, Munson grabbed the microphone and suggested I perform a physical impossibility.
~ Jim Bouton
Raccoon Coon, why did you come to this dance with a mask on? Why not the tin man and his rainbow girl? Why not Racine, his hair marcelled down to his chest? Why not come as a stomach digesting its worms? Why you little fellow with your ears at attention and your nose poking up like a microphone? You whig emblem, you woman chaser, who do you dance over the wide lawn tonight clanging the garbage pail like great silver bells?
~ Anne Sexton
I made myself a promise that every time I turned on the microphone, no matter what it was, I was going to say something of value.
~ Lisa Kennedy Montgomery
You have to have a big ego in this world to propel yourself in front of the cameras, to sit behind the microphone, to believe that you can entertain millions of people.
~ Noel Edmonds
I used to love watching Angela Lansbury and other people when they were doing voice-overs for Disney shows. You'd see them doing these wild gestures in front of the microphone. I used to think, 'Is that really necessary?' What you realize when you're doing it is that that's the only way.
~ Sean Astin
Anyone that has a microphone, that temptation for the voice to be bigger than the message is always there.
~ Kirk Franklin
Scream in despair over Meat and Metal Microphone
~ Allen Ginsberg
page forty-four, Fire Down Below," he announced in a voice which suggested that he was trying to broadcast to the nation without using a microphone.
~ Anthony Buckeridge
The Doctor character originated from playing Halo 2 on the Xbox and it had proximity chat where you could engage with someone in real-time on the microphone, and I loved that; I ate that up.
~ Dr. Disrespect
I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I'd go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on 'Laugh-In,' Flip Wilson.
~ Bernie Mac
The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.
~ Ed Bradley
Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff.
~ Roger McGuinn
Wedding's over," Buddy had shouted into the microphone. "Go home." (Which I'm sure endeared him to everyone there).
~ Roland Smith
My fellow Americans I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes. (Comment while testing a microphone before a broadcast 11 Aug 84)
~ Ronald Reagan
His death nearly occurred at the microphone: on a People's Platform discussion of Hitlerism, Jan. 23, 1943, he collapsed in the studio while the program continued uninterrupted. Woollcott died about four hours later, a victim of a heart attack that developed into a cerebral hemorrhage
~ John Dunning
More than any other instrument, the relationship between an acoustic guitar and a microphone is super-important. The kind of mics that you use and your placement of the mics to the guitar can radically alter your sound.
~ Mat Kearney
Radio is in my blood.
~ Laura Schlessinger
Sir one more comment like that and I will strangle you with my microphone wire!
~ Adam Sandler
Singing intimately is almost like thinking into a microphone, so it helps to have the song buried inside you.
~ Tony Bennett