Top 25 Tape Recorder Quotes

Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you’d know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant ‘Da da da da’ instead of ‘Boom boom boom boom!’ Who knows?

I’ll have to have a room of my own. Nobody could sleep with Dick. He wakes up during the night, switches on the lights, speaks into his tape recorder.

I taught myself how to use a multi-track tape recorder, which was the first time I recorded myself.

I mean, I haven’t been around very long. I can’t expect everyone to have seen ‘The House Bunny’. Oh God. I am having such waves of internal embarrassment, which now I’m admitting on a tape recorder. This is so one of the things I should keep in my head.

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 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 was broadcast-struck from an early age; I had saved up for a tape recorder and started making programmes.

I never do formal interviews. I don’t use a tape recorder. I take notes but occasionally.

Recalling a memory is not like playing a tape recorder. It’s a creative process.

When I was doing interviews at the FBI, my tape recorder battery died. They gave me a new one, and I said, ‘Of course, this is bugged?’

If you’re famous and supposedly wise, it’s always a good idea to have a tape recorder in the room. Never can tell when you might spew out a line or two worth printing somewhere.

When I was a boy, I had a grand, big tape recorder, and I made late-night radio shows with glasses of water and funny voices. I just loved radio plays.

Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it.

I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just turn it on and just start doing voices and characters. I just loved it.

The first six years of a child’s life, it is like a tape recorder is on. Everything it sees, smells, touches, experiences in any way, whatever it hears, is being downloaded into the brain before the consciousness of the child is even made apparent.

I usually dream of melodies. When I wake up I have them in my head. I usually come up with things in the middle of the night because that’s when my mind is the quietest. I always have my tape recorder, pen and pad by my bed just in case.

I could have been a top notch spy. People confess the most amazing secrets to me, even when I am not fishing for those nuggets. I must look trustworthy because I sit there with a video camera or a tape recorder while the stories pour out.

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 can never kind of fathom a character’s journey beyond the moment when you go to black, any more than when people ask me what Jason Patric did with the tape recorder at the end of ‘Narc,’ you know what I mean? Even in ‘Blood, Guts,’ like, what happens down the road with these characters?

I bought a tape recorder and some stuff and went to Europe for three months when I was 18. The puppeteering was only there as a hobby. I wanted to be a journalist. When I was 19, and after I had spent about a year in college, Jim Henson asked me to come out and try puppeteering for awhile.

I’d say writing songs is, for me, as much playing the tape recorder as it is playing guitar or writing words.

I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game.

I could learn how to press ‘Record’ on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.

I first started doing some somewhat technology-based shows in the ’80s. If you wanted to get real technical about it, back in the ’70s I used to open up with Utopia with just me on the stage with a four-track tape recorder. So, technically, I’ve been using the help of various devices pretty much throughout my career.

I did the first ‘Oxygene’ on an 8 tracks tape recorder with very few instruments, with no other choice than being minimalist.