Best Mic Quotes

#1. I wanna be able to stand on the stage and hold out the mic and people sing all the lyrics to my song.

Sevyn Streeter

#2. 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.

Eminem

#3. I've done music since I would sit and make songs on my computer mic when I was 11.

Keith Stanfield

#4. Me and Biggie share a storytelling ability
he was an actor on wax, too. His stories were so vivid and torrid, he made you feel them. And we both have the hardness. When I come out on the mic, you know it's me.

Black Rob

#5. We were gradually playing larger venues and in the early days PA systems were kind of non-existent. So to play loud, we had to use louder equipment. The PA systems back then didn't mic the instruments - only the vocals.

John Entwistle

#6. The days of an open mic night when I'd rock up in an old jumper are over.

Katy B

#7. I smoke on the mic like Smokin' Joe Frazier,
The hell raiser, raisin' hell with the flavor.

Inspectah Deck

#8. 'Cause I'll rip the mic, rip the stage, rip the system
I was born to rage against 'em

Zack De La Rocha

#9. I'm nervous ahead of every gig. I feel like running away three seconds before I'm due on stage. But I'm all right as soon as I get the mic in my hand.

Ringo Starr

#10. I used to stand in front of the mic and cry.

Isaac Hayes

#11. We don't live in an ancient era. Today, collaboration doesn't mean two singers standing next to each other at the mic to sing together.

Sunidhi Chauhan

#12. Live audiences love me because I'm singing and actually am able to f**k with people live over the mic.

Willam Belli

#13. Enterprising law-enforcement officers with a warrant can flick a distant switch and turn a standard mobile phone into a roving mic or eavesdrop on occupants of cars equipped with travel assistance systems.

Jonathan Zittrain

#14. 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.

Ice Cube

#15. I often take things I find in vintage crawls and hand them to a very good seamstress, who then replicates them and makes a more robust version in different colors, with a pocket for my mic pack.

Marina And The Diamonds

#16. I spent two years playing open mic nights in Brighton, and I heard more and more people saying, 'You should give it a go in London.'

James Bay

#17. Nothing that is will always be.- Open Mic Singer

Geoffrey Thorne

#18. I'd like to say I'm R&B's savior. Whether that's the truth or not, I'm definitely going out there with my mic and my shield to declare, 'I am here to save R&B.' I will have the people saying, 'Sir, there is a man at the musical gates saying he is here to save R&B.'

Jamie Foxx

#19. There are mics inside the instrument, a contact mic on my throat, and countless mics clustered around the air of the horn and throughout the room. I wanted to make something that was specific to the medium of recording.

Colin Stetson

#20. I would. I'm just too, I'm kind of, a pussy, I guess. That's the problem. But, no, I'd love to. I think everybody should do open mics. I think it's very healthy for your soul. So yeah, I'd love to do it again, but I don't know. It's like I'm cutting a record if I do open mic now, so, I don't know.

Robert Pattinson

#21. I like messing up the song, doing some improvisation. And I like running around the room with the mic.

Erika M. Anderson

#22. That's right I never hold my tongue for saving face
Even the mic feedback will humm "Amazing Grace"

Mac Lethal

#23. My first open mic, I drank a full pitcher of beer by myself. I wasn't afraid of being in front of people as much as, Is this funny?

Doug Stanhope

#24. James Brown's Live at the Apollo is not just a musical whiplash, it's a spiritual cleansing. You can just close your eyes and see him doing the splits, kicking the mic stand and doing a 360.

Ted Nugent

#25. I used to wanna rap like Jay-Z,
Now I feel I could run laps around Jay-Z,
Nas ain't seen nothing this nasty,
B.I.G. & Pac got it coming when I pass too.
You got the mic, I ain't the one you wanna pass to

Ab-Soul

#26. 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.

Eddie Murphy

#27. I remember performing on a punk stage with no mic in the middle of a mosh pit. My act was called "How to Be a Domestic Goddess."

Roseanne Barr

#28. 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.

Jessie J.

#29. My most embarrassing moment was probably when I was on tour and I would throw the mic out of my hand and catch it but one time I dropped it and I felt so stupid. My most exhilarating moment is every time I step on stage to perform.

Shawn Desman

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

Rita Wilson

#31. 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.'

Patton Oswalt

#32. Every little boy wanna pick up the mic,
And try to run with the big boys and live up to the real hype.
But that's like pickin up a ball, playin with Mike,
Swingin at Ken Griffey or challengin' Roy to a fight.

LL Cool J