Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Microphone. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Microphone Quotes And Sayings by 94 Authors including Lupe Fiasco,Lou Doillon,Mary Chapin Carpenter,Max Von Sydow,Rod Stewart for you to enjoy and share.

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I went from MC to being MS, this microphone controller is the motivational speaker.
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As soon as it's behind computers and machines, which the majority of the planet loves, I find it cold. I need to hear breathing. I like the idea of the mic being a captation of everything that's happening around.
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20-some years ago, I'd have a big old radio with a tape deck, and I'd hit record and try to get something down on the tape, but nowadays, I can use my handy little smart-phone; I sing into the app for voice memo.
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In a silent film, you speak but the audience does not hear you.
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I did things with the microphone stand that no-one else has attempted to do.
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But here I am today recording this and I'm in the studio with all the others on a clean mic. It's extraordinary, the actor's found a way of doing it for himself.
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When I'm the person in front of the microphone, and I'm the person in the light, I want to reflect and refract the light onto places where they need the attention, where I don't need it.
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Watson, ... if I can get a mechanism which will make a current of electricity vary in its intensity, as the air varies in density when a sound is passing through it, I can telegraph any sound, even the sound of speech.
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In the Digital Age, recorders also tend to be oversharers, and with Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest, they can do so on a grand scale.
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I might not be able to hold my drink or my man, but what I can hold, is a tune. Point me in the right direction and give me a bloody mic.
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There is basic equipment required: a headset, a Dictaphone to play the tapes that must be transcribed, and patience, a willingness to become a human conduit as the words of others enter through her ears, course through her veins, and drip out unseen through fast-moving fingertips.
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To capture sound is to isolate a moment, canonize it, enter it into the historical register.
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I was listening to you the whole time. I didn't trust you to hang on to the earbud, so I had a mini-microphone sewn into your shirt. It's just under the rolled hem on the neckline." I glanced at it. "I thought it was just another rhinestone.
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Using the voice is a physical act, one that first announces the existence of the body of residence and then trumpets its arrival in a public space.
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I have a voice. It's one of my gifts. I intend to use it on behalf of the children that UNICEF seeks to aid.
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I don't have any computers in my studio, it's all analog tape. All analog tape, all old equipment, I mean my mics are like from the 60's and early 70's, everything in there is old.
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Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology.
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I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity.
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I'm trying to capture a moment. It's not about the singer at the microphone. I'm trying to look for, like, a moment in between.
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The first quality that is needed is audacity.
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earthquake P-waves had reportedly been made with microphones
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Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public.
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Radio is powerful not because of the microphones, but the one who sits behind the microphones
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You draw characters speaking loud and clear but you're not hearing them.
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I'd like to turn the silence right up, but how do you do that?
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When we first started making videos, we didn't have a boom mic, so we had to talk really loud. And then we got a boom mic and were like, 'Wow, we're shouting,' and had to learn to bring it back.
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Well I have a microphone and you don't so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!
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I did sound for a number of years, so I know the pain of the sound mixer on a set where everybody was talking.
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This is what my
voice sounds like
I don't need to be
talking to
someone else
To hear it
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Voice. And maybe
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These days, most of us carry a fully functional multimedia studio around in our smartphones.
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The performing musician was now expected to write and create for two very different spaces: the live venue, and the device that could play a recording or receive a transmission. Socially and acoustically, these spaces were worlds apart. But the compositions were expected to be the same!
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My voice is an instrument.
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Voice over can be tricky. It can be dangerous because it's over-used or inappropriately used.
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When you use some of the more modern recording devices and Pro Tools, when you get into the technology, you are aching to get into some territory.
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Everyone's screaming,
I try to make a sound,
But no one hears me
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Your mallet or your stick goes through the instrument, the sound goes out and then wherever the sound goes nobody knows, you know.
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Audacity, always audacity - soundest principal of strategy.
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whatever you come up with needs to suggest a voice that you are not trying to control. If you're lost in the forest, let the horse find the way home. You have to stop directing, because you will only get in the way.
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A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
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Well, I happen to have a love of vocal reproduction devices.
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The one thing I've always done, because I like the sound of my guitar from where I sit - meaning not in front of it - so what I do is, I put microphones around my ears. I have them around my head, too. I don't know if it's a superstitious thing, but it's actually how I recorded my first album.
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You can never tell how you sound over the phone, that evil piece of machinery, and I would stop using one, we all would, if only there weren't these great distances we need to put between us and the people we need to talk to.
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We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.
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The human voice is the most perfect instrument of all.
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There's a guy in the audience with a distinctive laugh. I hope that guy is miked. The only problem with having a distinctive laugh is I know exactly when that guy isn't laughing. "Oh, distinctive laugh doesn't think that joke was funny!"
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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The voices were muffled; the din of a
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You're your worst critic, and I don't like the way I sound on the mic.
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Once upon a time, sound was new technology.
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More megaphones don't equal a better dialogue.
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Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.
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the only way to find your voice is to use it.
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In a world where the great technologies enable us to record, replay, cut and paste, zoom in, and delete, listening is the crucial commitment to keep the heart touchable.
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In radio, you have two tools. Sound and silence.
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I use a laptop more as a tool, as sort of the central artery. Everything goes through the digital audio card of my computer, but if I had my druthers I'd do everything in dedicated hardware.
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People like my voice and say I can sing, but I don't like microphones in front of my face: it distracts me.
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Grand telegraphic discovery today ... Transmitted vocal sounds for the first time ... With some further modification I hope we may be enabled to distinguish ... the "timbre" of the sound. Should this be so, conversation viva voce by telegraph will be a fait accompli.
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All I have is a voice.
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If rhyme is a crime, my mic is my co-defendant.
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A woman's voice ululated on the sound system, somewhere between an Islamic call to prayer and orgasm with a drumbeat.
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You can get digital technology that almost is film quality, and go make little films and do everything you can to find a little understanding of your own voice and it will grow - Don't take no for an answer - Take every opportunity you can to do something.
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You've got to capture as much of the room sound as possible. That's the very essence of it.
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without noise of drums or
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I wanted to be able to write in the voice that I talk to my friends and assume that everybody would know what I was talking about.
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It takes some silence to make sound.
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Well, they put me in a booth and then did some nice things to the speaker to make it come out sounding ok.
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Music, music, records, records, noise to cover silence.
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Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance.
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Unplayed sound is like unspoken words.
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You can't find your voice if you don't use it.
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When you're onstage with an electric band going through a massive P.A. system, it's very artificial. You can't really hear your own voice as it comes out of your mouth.
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Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver.
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You can't acquire a voice. Either you have it, or you don't.
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The state would rather give me an uzi than a microphone.
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I just take dictation for the voices in my head.
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Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the deeds of the thug to be broadcast to a million people each day.
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I'm an 'in the shower' or 'in the booth' kind of singer. I can sing, but I need either nobody to be able to hear me, or for me to be able to redo it.
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It's not hard to figure out who has the power in any large gathering in our mediated culture: they are the ones with a microphone, their image projected larger than life above the crowd.
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You want to hear vocals? Go sing it.
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An auditory scenario for the players to act out with their instruments.
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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.
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Where is the sound?" someone hastily scribbled on the blackboard, and they all waited anxiously for the reply. Milo caught his breath, picked up the chalk, and explained simply, "It's on the tip of my tongue.
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Tommy pointed out before removing something from his pocket and passing it to me. I turned the small radio and microphone over in my hands. "I'm not going on a mob bust." "It's that or you wear one of those ridiculous Bluetooth headsets, which are about as secure as yelling really loud.
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I go onstage and I talk, and I remember what I'm saying, and I track it.
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With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless.
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In war nothing is impossible, provided you use audacity.
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Often, equipment can as easily function as a security blanket for musicians unwilling or unable to risk anything personal in the studio. Whether one catches the feeling on a record is a subjective matter. How can you be sure? The machinery can hold out the promise of at least mechanical perfection.
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Whenever I am on camera or doing anything on mic, I don't have any process at all. I just do it and, when I'm finished, it goes away. There is no process. I wish there were some techniques to it. I just turn it on and off, and then I go home.
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That made sense of gabby meetings: salient points isolated from the gush of acoustic froth. This paper belonged on a clipboard, not being defaced by dud literature.
--Iain Sinclair
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I want my voice to have purpose.
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I'm a hard act to follow, because when I'm done, I take the microphone with me.
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For live you need a microphone for the snare and the high hat, the kick drum, a nice stereo overhead and one for the toms - you can get away with using four mikes.
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As entertainment and storytelling move in the direction of more immersive environments, binaural sound will begin to play a larger and larger role in those experiences.
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I have a pretty lousy voice.
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I don't like the term 'voice-over.'
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I decided to create a really good laptop recording situation and to learn how to write that way, rather than have the perfect stuff around.
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With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.
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You have to make an audience experience with the ears as well as their eyes.
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I find dictating in the mass media particularly good because you're writing for voice anyway; you're writing for people to say a line and, consequently, saying a line through a machine is quite a valid test for the validity of what you're saying.