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.
I watched Magic Johnson on tape. I didn’t have a chance to watch him live. I remember I was 12 or 13, watching games, going to the gym and trying to mimic what they do. Steve Nash, Jason Kidd, all those guys.
We’ve got great potential in our country and the only way we’re going to make sure kids are getting the degrees that they need, make sure we’re getting through that red tape, is by working together.
My mum is a theatrical person. I saw a tape of a theatre project she did when I was a kid. I was really affected by the idea that my mum could turn herself into someone else for the purpose of telling a story.
Just from the beginning, I really liked playing around with tape recorders. And then, when I got into punk rock, I only really liked – the rawer it was, the more I was into it.
Perhaps people with no experience will be unfettered by protocol, history and existing structures and will be freer to cut through red tape.
My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I think it was about 15 pages.
I don’t need to live in L.A. I can live anywhere and be remote. Everything is on tape.
I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape.
From the smallest misdemeanor up to the biggest crime, everyone is brought before a judge. And that means there’s a huge backlog in the American legal system. There are prosecutors and public defenders and judges who are trying to keep their head above water in the tide of this bureaucracy and red tape.
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.
My dad died right after performing at the Friars’ roast for Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. I have that tape somewhere. There’s still a lot of good jokes in there. I mean, that was 1958.
Bloomberg does not cater to the Indian audience. It does display Indian stock indices, and during trading hours has a ticker tape of Indian stocks running across the bottom, but then so do most of the news channels.
I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.
Sometimes I’ll put on a Zig Ziglar tape: he’s a motivational speaker who is really funny and really American. I know I should do the things he says, but I’m too cynical.
Duct tape solves all problems, I think.
I watched the Sandra Bland documentary and her tape itself over and over and over and over again, and just the reality of that, the fear in that.
I watch a lot of tape. Anytime I have a match on TV, I watch it back, 10-20 times alone.
I can’t get that live and I don’t have the time to take the tape, after I’ve finished recording it, into a little studio somewhere else where I can get a different kind of percussion sound.
I think it was, my parents got me a karaoke machine when I was about 9 years old. Even before that, they got me a tape recorder that I used to walk around my life with. And there was something about recording and then hearing myself back.
I could learn how to press ‘Record’ on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.
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.
I’m glad I’m not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone’s tape recording what you say.
So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it – so long as I’m not investing too much capital in these things.
You go to work, tape five shows in one day and then go home and play golf for the rest of the week and then start the week all over. I thought if something like that came along, I’d love to do that.
‘The Blair Witch Project’ is great for motion sickness. The first time you see it, it is extremely creepy. The first time I saw it, I saw it on a bootleg tape on a tour bus before it had even come out. It was one of the first movies I’d seen like that. I didn’t even realize it was a damn movie!
There was no music at all during my childhood. The first time we heard music was when my eldest brother bought a tape recorder. Even then, only he was allowed to touch it. But in our house, we listened to legends such as Muhammad Rafi, Mehdi Hasan, Noor Jehan, Attaullah Khan Esakhelvi.
Every record I’ve ever done with Tool has been on tape.
After we got our first family car with a tape deck, my dad acquired exactly three cassette tapes: A ‘Best of ABBA,’ ‘Private Heaven’ by Sheena Easton, and the soundtrack to ‘Xanadu.’ I also unironically love ‘Xanadu.’
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.
There’s something about pulling out a real tape from a shelf and looking at it and knowing that ‘Everlong’ is on it, or ‘Best of You’ is on it, and it’s really special.
My father used to tape ‘Top of the Pops’ for me every Sunday, and I would sit in my bedroom, write down the lyrics of all of my favourite songs, and sing along. I was always singing in my bedroom with a hairbrush.
In order for me to get through all the red tape and just allow people to just get at my talent, I’ve got to set the record straight. And you can’t set half the record straight; when you tell it, you’ve got to tell it all.
We have to cut the red tape, eliminate barriers, and reduce bureaucracy – for all housing, for everyone.
When I appeared in EPMD’s ‘Hardcore’ song and video that was just crazy. Def Jam had these little virals back then on VHS tape. Q-Tip was another very important person to my career. He had me in A Tribe Called Quest’s ‘Scenario’ video when I was first coming out.
Truth is, none of us professional athletes are ever 100 percent healthy. We just decide what we’re going to tape up and push through without making it worse.
By cutting the red tape that comes out of Brussels, we will free our farmers to grow more, sell more, and export more great British food whilst upholding our high standards for plant and animal health and welfare.
I’ll watch tape on my opponents. I’ll watch a little bit of tape. I don’t like to invest too much time on tape. Sometimes you get too focused on your opponent instead of yourself. I’d rather watch my own training and my own sparring sessions and develop from there.
I’m thinking about recording everything to tape like it’s 1991 and seeing how that sounds.
When I do a 30-minute meal, for instance, on Food Network, that’s my food you see at the end of the show and it’s not perfect. And if sometimes things break or drop or the pasta hits the wall when I’m draining it, they never stop tape. They just kind of let me go with it.
Radio dramas have disappeared. What we do have now is books on tape, which I find wonderful. I’ve done some of those. Otherwise, radio acting is now gone.
My day one fans – my fans from my mix tape days – know my life now. They know where I’ve been. You don’t want to have a disconnection with those fans. You have to give them all of you because they feel like they’ve known you.
For me, the first thing I fell madly in love with when I was little, was, Gilda Radner had this live performance that she had done at the Met that was on tape, and I could rent it from Video Video in New Jersey where I lived, and so I literally would rent it every two weeks.
Stand-up comedy is tough right now. Anybody can come to a concert, tape you, and put you up on the Internet. You either fight it or embrace it.
I have to figure out different ways to get into the moves that I do because everyone has a different offense, and I need different counters to go into my moves, and that’s more down to tape watching.
The big corporations have a team of lawyers and accountants to help them. It’s the small businesses, the mom and pop shops, that get lost in the layers of red tape.
That first tape I did dropped in 2009. It was just for fun, I’m like ‘I’m just going to do something to have fun.’ Everyone was just ‘put out a tape. You’re young. You’ve got money. It ain’t gonna hurt you. Who’s it gonna hurt?’ So what I ended up doing was I put out the tape, pressed up 20,000 CDs, flooded the streets.
Now that I can edit the whole thing on AVID and edit the whole thing on tape, maybe I will do the next digitally, because maybe the quality will become less obvious between tape and film.
Our demo tape we got signed on was composed of three songs, ‘Wham Rap,’ half of ‘Club Tropicana’ and a verse and the chorus of ‘Careless Whisper’ and we thought that was good enough.
Duct tape is like that. It’s a building block. You can make a rope out of it, you can make a cloth out of it. And because it sticks to stuff it’s even more powerful. It’s like an uber-material because of the versatility of a sticky fiber.
