Top 105 Mic Quotes

Usually a manager is put with someone who has got good rings skills, but is not necessarily good on the mic. So I have no idea why they put me with Steve Austin, he didn’t need any help!

You get a different respect when you can handle things on the behind the scenes end as well as in front of the camera or in front of the mic.

I’ll never forget when we played Shepherd’s Bush in London. We played ‘I Run To You’, and we put the mic out for the last chorus, and you could hear them singing the chorus with the beautiful accent that they have.

Even though I only get a few days off, I do not stop, whether it’s getting some stage time at an open mic or flying to L.A. to watch a ton of stand-up shows.

There was an open mic night when I was about 11 years old and I went and I played the songs that I’d written in my bedroom and it was the first night where I felt like I was myself at school.

During my stage shows, I am so energetic. It’s constant! I just don’t stand still. I actually got given a mic stand from my team to say ‘Just calm down. Stand still for at least two songs.’ But now I just pick it up and walk around with it.

Honestly, I never really put the mic down.

Live television invites a lot of comic relief, and I’ve definitely had my share. I got tongue-twisted on the word ‘prevalent’ once; had a homeless man accost me during a segment; and got my mic snagged off when a congressional staffer barged into my frame.

We never want to see anyone go in front of the camera or behind the mic without union protection.

I’m still the same guy who gets in front of the mic and just sings.

I remember feeling the energy of people. That stuck with me. Understanding that I could stand behind a mic and captivate people. I was always obsessed with that.

When I was, like, 12, I remember grabbing a mic, pretending it was a guitar, and performing in front of my friends. I didn’t know at the time I wanted to be an artist.

I did a tour down South someplace, and it was an all-day festival, and there were about 2,000 people. It was pouring down rain, and I went to grab the mic, and I got electrocuted. I felt the electricity flow through my body.

I lived in a pretty big house, and we had a guesthouse, so when I was 14, I built a studio in my bedroom, which was pretty big. It was two rooms connected, so I turned the second into a studio and ran the mic in my closet.

I am awesome. I’m the most must-see WWE superstar: I’m proven inside the ring and outside the ring. I’m the best on the mic; I get the ratings.

My priority doesn’t lie with the whole website and Facebook and such; I’m still walking down the road in a pair of real shoes. You need to just play as much as you can. Get in front of people, as I’ve always said. It doesn’t matter if it’s ten people at an open mic or opening a show for someone. Play all the time.

When I performed at ‘Open Mic U.K.’ I had this connection with the audience that I’d never felt before, and I loved it. It was my first big thing, and looking out into the crowd… was just amazing.

It’s funny: when the press knows someone’s gonna say something stupid, they’re quick to pass them a mic and put a camera on them, and everybody talk about it.

On Warped Tour in Boise, Idaho, I broke my tooth on the mic. I took a pretty significant chunk out of my tooth and had to have it sanded down. It wasn’t the most painful injury, but it was the most unexpected one.

Obviously, wrestling is a lot of fun, and I love it. But on the mic is where I have the most fun.

Trump crossed the line all the time. Flustered during the debate because he couldn’t out-debate Clinton on policy, he just leaned into the mic and dismissed her entirely: ‘nasty woman.’

Technology means the kind of music you can make on your own if you’ve got an imagination is amazing. It’s crazy that I can sit with a Mac and a keyboard and a mic and create a symphony.

They would go back and listen to my matches, and two days later, I’d be fined. Because no one heard it while it was being played, but they heard it on some mic behind the court. Is that the way it should be? I don’t think so.

Everyone was wearing jeans, so I started wearing slacks. I’d walk on, and people would laugh before I got to the mic because I looked stupid.

Performing live actually thrills me. Just get me a stage, get me a mic, and I’m going to be happy.

I tend to use different microphones, different mic techniques, and different recording mediums – like analogue tape – that evoke multiple eras of recorded music at the same time.

Occasionally, especially on video games and with a lot of the fighting stuff, to get what you feel is the proper sound, you have to imitate what you’re doing, and occasionally I’ve gotten carried away and kicked over mic stands or punched things.

Before I had a record deal, I was living in New York and playing anywhere I could, from somebody’s house to an open mic to coffeeshops.

Before doing my first open mic, I was sitting in the back watching all these comedians banter back and forth and fire jokes and up each other, and I thought, ‘This is where I wanna be.’

I just started the way most comics start, doing open mic shows around Sacramento and San Francisco, and eventually, I moved to L.A. After about four or five years in L.A., I got the call to join the ‘The Daily Show.’

When I was in college, I would go out, and I would go to these open mic nights at Stitches and Nick’s Comedy Stop, so I was going to classes during the day, and then at night, I would be signing up on the lists.

Honestly, I’d love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I’m doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I’m doing.

For me, the Mount Rushmore of greats would be Ric Flair, Dusty Rhodes, Hulk Hogan, Bruno Sammartino or Lou Thesz. You can do either one of them in that fourth spot. But I think Ric Flair is the greatest of all time. He’s the greatest I’ve ever seen… on the mic and in the ring.

On one level, we’re on Matador, but our amps still might explode on stage, or they’ll be an echo in the mic. It’s like climbing a ladder. I like to climb it really slowly. I could probably get really professional right away, but I like to take baby steps and find my own way.

Everybody was always telling me to rap and freestyle. I used to go to the park and spit on the mic. If I go to the park, they always gonna give me the mic.

Some nights I’m funny with the between-song commentary, some nights I’m not. I have no control over this. I pace the stage a lot and struggle with the mic stand in a ridiculous way.

It’s an enthralling experience to be in front of the mic and record a song.

I approached my career like a rapper. I would go to every open mic, every studio session, bringing my beats. I would almost do exactly what a rapper would do to get on.

I think, for me, I should have worked harder on my mic skills, and I should have been a lot easier to deal with, and I would have been pushed a lot better.

As soon as I touched the mic, I knew that’s what I would do for the rest of my life.

I was 18 when I started. I was hanging out with some friends and they asked if I had tried stand-up before. I hadn’t, but I thought: ‘What the hell?’ So I went to an open mic night, and I liked it.

I’m kinda a first take dude. The first time, cut that mic on, and the spirit is there, and what comes on the mic – I mean, even if I’m mumbling, I like to keep a lot of that initial thing that comes out. Cause that’s the spirit.

When I first started recording music, we would record in the closet with socks on the mic.

The song of the blues, the song of the music, was something a lot of people missed out on. They thought they had to swagger a certain way or bark at the mic, and you don’t have to do that.

As an entertainer, Justin Timberlake has learned from the past. He can cradle a mic stand like Elvis Presley, move like Michael Jackson, and swoon like Frank Sinatra.

‘Funny’ is really cool live. You break it down into an acoustic set, and sometimes I’ll do that one unplugged and off the mic, depending on the venue.

Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I’d be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that’s the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I’ve always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.

I started out in 1989 doing open mic nights. The first 10 years, I was literally all about I’m going to be a star. I want leather pants, I want a kangaroo, I want to be on ‘MTV Cribs,’ I want to go to the mall with a pet monkey and I want everyone to go, ‘Wow, that guy’s huge, he’s successful.’

I don’t think most guys can handle a mic even close to what I do if I’m honest and I say that with no ego, that’s the honest truth. I know what I do and I’m self aware.

I’m a huge karaoke fan. Oh my God. I’m one of those girls who don’t give the mic away. It’s a problem. I’m a closeted pop star.

Just give me a mic, and I’ll rock it.

If it was all about me, I’d do a whole lot of pop records, make a whole lot of money, just rake in the dough. But it’s never been all about me. It’s all about being a voice for the voiceless. People who can’t speak for themselves, who don’t have a mic, don’t have a say.