Quotes About Tapes

#1. If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.

Bill Hicks

#2. Well, I'm a tape-recording nut. I like to play my tapes.

Tony Randall

#3. When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.

Barry Eisler

#4. People's arrest tapes, mug shots, everything is online.

Jane Krakowski

#5. I graduated from high school in 1963. There were no computers, cell phones, Internet, credit cards, cassette tapes or cable TV.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#6. I can kind of envision one person with a lot of machines, tapes, and electronic set-ups ... singi ng or speaking and using machines ...

Jim Morrison

#7. If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.

Earl Warren

#8. Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions and she was clearly putting far too much time and energy into them.

David Nicholls

#9. Tapes, as we all know, are very powerful evidence. Tapes that are altered are powerfully misleading.

Brendan Sullivan

#10. I tape every game I can get my hands on. Every game that's on TV, I tape it. My daughter, Terry Hill, lives in Eureka, and she has a satellite dish, so she tapes what I can't get. I try to keep up with what everybody is doing, so if the phone rings, I'll be ready.

Sid Gillman

#11. If there are no pop stars churning out those mind-numbing songs, then there are no musicians in the booths backing them up, no clerks running back and forth with tapes, no shop owners selling the music. Taking out one person at the top destroys thousands at the bottom.

Kiera Cass

#12. All you know is your parents telling you that you're not deserving, you're not worthy, and no one will ever want you. Believe me, tapes like that play so loud, you can't hear anything else. Even when it's clear otherwise.

Danielle Steel

#13. Bin Laden was 200 miles away from the area where all of these drone strikes were taking out his key leaders, he was able to indulge in his hobbies ... and he was making occasional video tapes and audio tapes to the wider world.

Peter L. Bergen

#14. All tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums.

Terry Pratchett

#15. Individuals in various countries like Egypt and Saudi Arabia listen to the tapes of bin Laden. They gather in groups of four or five. They feel they want to do something to express their support for what they've heard. The idea that they were taking orders is a particularly Western idea.

Robert Fisk

#16. The one thing I learned about myself going back and watching tapes of all the losses that we've had is that I'm physically capable of doing this and dominating the game, but the mental part was not there. I don't know if it comes with age, but I had to learn to be mentally tough.

Lisa Leslie

#17. They're never technically tapes, but they're always called mix tapes anyway, just because tapes are always cool.

Rob Sheffield

#18. If everyone had a dad like mine, no one would have sex tapes.

Tina Fey

#19. Start as early as you can. Make tapes of your characters.

Tara Strong

#20. After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.

Bob Woodward

#21. I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon's Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying to figure out who was leaking and providing information to Carl and myself.

Bob Woodward

#22. That was my way, and I also use the music after five years, I started hearing opera, opera, it was very good instrument to keep the spirit very strong because you feel like you are yourself singing opera, and I used to hear a lot of opera, they send me tapes.

Mordechai Vanunu

#23. As the trickle of foreign videos turned into a flood, North Korean police became alarmed and came up with new tactics to arrest people who watched them. They cut electricity to specific apartment blocks and then raided every apartment to see what tapes and disks were stuck inside the players.

Anonymous

#24. In 1980, I moved to Chicago, and I recorded demo tapes for my friends' bands, and in 1981, the first Big Black record - the first thing I did that was an actual record.

Steve Albini

#25. I was 23 with a mullet doing lots of jerk-off material.I can't look at the old tapes now.

Doug Stanhope

#26. Monty Python only became valuable when it was sold to Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in America. They didn't pay much either, but the series has been shown repeatedly, which led to lucrative tapes, CDs and DVDs.

Eric Idle

#27. It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you're too awkward to do it.

John Cusack

#28. I've got tapes that I'm so thankful that my father made - old reel-to-reel tapes. I've got a ton of those things at home. He kept those like fine diamonds, I mean he kept them, you know, in a box and was very, very careful of them, you know.

Ricky Skaggs

#29. This music that was supposed to only come from tapes like in any restaurant. Something would happened. One bird will start to do a little jazz thing, and another bird will start to answer.

John Hench

#30. Are you sad?" she asked him. Sincerely. "Do you need to go home and listen to all your mixed tapes and think about this chapter of your life closing?

Rainbow Rowell

#31. It was mix tapes, that's my story, I did a lot of mix tapes, that's what I started doing when I was 17. I got with a hot DJ out here and you know Texas, the rap scene is different, everyone out here is on the Screw music.

Slim Thug

#32. Everyone pretends to be normal and be your best friend, but underneath, everyone is living some other life you don't know about, and if only we had a camera on us at all times, we could go and watch each other's tapes and find out what each of us was really like.

James Franco

#33. The most exciting part of the casting process was casting out of Israel, which was a really unique process, mainly done remotely from California, looking at casting tapes.

Tim Kring

#34. I thought Nixon was getting ganged up on, but when I heard the tapes, I was shocked and terribly saddened.

Walter Annenberg

#35. I don't think my life would be significantly poorer if I don't impersonate Nick Clegg. Life is short enough without sitting up night after night listening to tapes of him.

Rory Bremner

#36. Never mind gas masks and fallout shelters in the event of biological warfare. Many New Yorkers move from place to place equipped with the essentials of vermin assault weaponry: mouse traps, roach spray, and sticky tapes. In some neighborhoods, it's a must.

Isabel Lopez

#37. When I look back at the tapes, your first everything, your first All-Star Game, your first playoff experience, it just seems like it went by really fast.

Roger Clemens

#38. Man, if it weren't for Bill's Records and Tapes I would've been an accountant like my dad. I love my dad, but thank God for Bill's.

Ryan Miller

#39. So . . . suddenly there were no tapes of The 1948 Show. It was no more. It was an ex-series.

John Cleese

#40. It was very hard to get any records, so the only source for us to really hear what was happening was listening to the Voice of America. We would be taping all the broadcast and then sharing the tapes and talking about it.

Jan Hammer

#41. I think the process of 'SNL' is still pretty formal. You make an audition tape, your agent sends it in, they watch people's tapes, and then they invite people to perform at a comedy club in Los Angeles or New York. But I don't know how much actual scouting they do online.

Noel Wells

#42. She had five tapes from him now - which meant, if her batteries lasted, she had four hundred and fifty minutes to spend with Park in her head, holding his hand.

Rainbow Rowell

#43. Read books, listen to tapes, attend seminars-they are decades of wisdom reduced to invaluable hours.

Mark Victor Hansen

#44. There are all kinds of mix tapes. there is always a reason to make one.

Rob Sheffield

#45. They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?

Kanye West

#46. Well, I did a harmonica instruction tape for Homespun tapes.

John Sebastian

#47. As far as I know, no tapes exist from my years at 'T.J.'s.' I wish they did.

Ronnie Milsap

#48. I have a lyric journal that I write in a lot. When I'm going to play, I just sit down and have my books with me and my notes and tapes and whatever I need to refer to. I just play and try different things. It's a kind of discipline.

Amy Ray

#49. In the late '70s, I had a band - the David Johansen band, for lack of a better name - and I started collecting, not records, but tapes from people I knew who had jump-blues records.

David Johansen

#50. I'm remixing an R.E.M. track called 'I've Been High' from their last album, 'Reveal.' It's a beautiful song, but record execs didn't put it out as a single because it didn't sound like the R.E.M. we're used to. So I asked Michael Stipe if I could have the tapes to do a remix, and he agreed.

Lukas Haas

#51. And I suppose tapes are a desperate attempt to steal something from Death's suitcase.

Mitch Albom

#52. And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.

Hanoi Hannah

#53. We searched around the globe and looked at well over a hundred 'Marco Polos,' came down to the wire, and went back and looked at our Italy tapes, and we realized that we had overlooked someone. That was Lorenzo Richelmy.

John Fusco

#54. I have everything in boxes. Thousands of those tapes. I've saved everything.

Patti Hansen

#55. When I took these things from the house:
some tapes, some books, my winter clothes,
I did not know that these would become the
things I own.

Jacqueline Woodson

#56. Thanks to the Betamax and Jason's diligent collection of tapes, she'd even been able to rerun the shows she'd missed while in Haiti. It was her job, she reasoned. And now she'd blown it!

Barbara Delinsky

#57. 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.

Amy Rowland

#58. It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes - they want you to stay current. So you do have to stay current to maintain your license even if you are not practicing.

Frank Shorter

#59. I had all these tapes in my closet that I had shot years ago with my friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. I was working on a film about him when he died, and then I just put everything away. It was too sad.

Tamra Davis

#60. They sent me some tapes of the original Mole and I thought it was pretty intriguing. I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there. It was fun. Turned out to be good.

Corbin Bernsen

#61. Introducing these people to our friends and family is, in a way, more heedlessly exhibitionistic than posting nude photos or sex tapes of ourselves online; it's like letting everyone watch our uncensored dreams.

Tim Kreider

#62. There are so many bootlegged Joy Division/Martin Hannett tapes, a lot of really bad bootlegs on the Internet.

Peter Hook

#63. I don't use backing tapes when I am singing and dancing on stage. I can do cartwheels and sing.

Beyonce Knowles

#64. At the end of each day, you should play back the tapes of your performance. The results should either applaud you or prod you.

Jim Rohn

#65. Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind: any tune we choose so long as it does not disturb others.

Jonathan Sacks

#66. Those [Watergate] tapes are going to take me to my grave with a huge smile on my face..

Ben Bradlee

#67. I had the time to take the original analog tapes and fix all the things I didn't like, so all I left was essentially the benefits of the analog with none of the disadvantages.

Kevin Shields

#68. I remember when I interviewed at MSNBC, one of the first things they said to me was, 'In your tapes, you had a mustache, right?' I said, 'Yeah, I recently took it off.' I said, 'If you hire me, you get to decide if you want it or not.' They said, 'No, no, we're fine with it now.'

Lester Holt

#69. But I think the record will actually come from tapes that are not yet recorded.

Evan Parker

#70. These tapes have been found, which were taken from the desk and various bootlegs. At the time we never got to hear them, they didn't seem to be available or they just got put to one side.

Michael Giles

#71. These motivational tapes have really inspired me! I'm going to make a million dollars, buy my own company and retire early. Then, I'm going to write a novel and a symphony and give all the profits to charity. Then next month, I'll figure out how to do it.

Randy Glasbergen

#72. When I had my first camera - I was a child of the '80s. I remember what it was like reusing the same tapes over and over again, and having really bad quality and images kind of bubbling up from under the surface.

Harmony Korine

#73. Nothing. It's ridiculous," he says. "I don't belong on those tapes. Hannah just wanted an excuse to kill herself." I

Jay Asher

#74. It looks like they've been watching old Japan tapes!

CM Punk

#75. I was 14 and madly in love for the first time. He was 21. He made me suddenly, unaccustomedly beautiful with his kisses and mix tapes. During the year of elation and longing, he never mentioned that he had a girlfriend who lived across the street.

Daphne Gottlieb

#76. I'm not convinced that Nixon would have survived in office if he'd burned the tapes, but I do believe he would have served out his presidency if he'd never made them in the first place.

Thomas Mallon

#77. On the morning of a formal dinner, they started marking off 8, 16, 18, or 20 inch spaces using measuring tapes or rulers and placing cards noting the perfectly symmetrical and equidistant locations for the plates, linens, and so forth

Estella M. Chung

#78. She of all people knows what compilation tapes represent.

Nick Hornby

#79. Opinions are like demo tapes. I don't want to hear yours

Stephen Colbert

#80. Or The Last Exorcism, I researched a lot of real exorcisms. I watched videos of exorcisms, I listened to tapes, and I read actual accounts of priests' logs. I also looked at a lot of the physicality. I would look into fits of hysteria and look at energies of people in manic, hysteric fits.

Ashley Bell

#81. If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.

Richard M. Nixon

#82. 'Turtles' was by far my favourite TV show when I was growing up. It would be the show that I would wanna watch more than anything. We'd record it on the big VHS tapes, and I'd watch it before school, after school, on the weekend, wear the costume, have all the weapons.

Greg Cipes

#83. I started to listen to music and began collecting records around 1948. And it was fairly soon after that that hi-fi came about, so that it was possible to have really good sound - LPs and tapes and speaker systems. The whole thing came more or less at once.

Phill Niblock

#84. I was under medication when I made the decision to burn the tapes.

Richard M. Nixon

#85. My parents loved music, and my father would come home with cassette tapes of Chic and the Village People and Barbra Streisand. We had all these sounds always going. We never had somber music - always upbeat.

Marjorie Gubelmann

#86. Erase those negative tapes playing in your head. Ask the Holy Spirit to help you forget. He can cast your hurt in forgetfulness.

Bidemi Mark-Mordi

#87. I mean, my age is just a number. So what if you were born in the era when they still used rotary phones and cassette tapes? I think it's cute.

T.S. Krupa

#88. The people I idolized I saw once a year on the Tony Awards. I would buy the cassette tapes of the various Broadway shows and scour the photos inside the recording package. That's how I exposed myself to the arts - New York and professional theater felt like a very distant thing.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

#89. Go find very early versions of things: the first TV pilot of a later-successful TV show; early audition tapes by famous actors; early demos by famous musicians. Focus on these early examples, not what they became over the next 20 years. Remember that what you're doing will constantly improve.

Derek Sivers

#90. I watched tapes and became a historian of the sport, and tried to combine certain elements and find things in the gym and saw what worked for me.

Holt McCallany

#91. I adore the work of Stephen Sondheim. I like musicales in general. They make surprisingly great running tapes.

Laura Lippman

#92. I used to go over to my friend's house and we'd watch VCR tapes, three of them a day, and I was like, "I could come up with better stories than this." And I've wanted to write films ever since.

Michelle Rodriguez

#93. I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them.

Harmony Korine

#94. I had sent out 100 audition tapes within 365 days, and then I got the 'Dope' audition. When I sent that out, two days later my manager called me and said they wanted to fly me out to L.A. to audition.

Shameik Moore

#95. Arnold Schwarzenegger is in trouble after tapes surfaced of him saying negative things about other Republicans. Actually the Schwarzenegger tapes surfaced last year, but they weren't deciphered until this week.

Conan O'Brien

#96. I started by studying Kiswahili to learn the dialect. Then, I studied tapes, documentaries, footage, and audio cassettes of Idi Amin's speeches. And I met with his brothers, his sisters, his ministers, his generals' all kinds of people, in order to try to understand him.

Forest Whitaker

#97. My romantically favorite era is 78, 79 listening to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 4, the live tapes, echo chamber and break beats.

Kool Moe Dee

#98. I usually kind of can't wait until my records leak. Back in the day, you could give people tapes, but you can't do that anymore, because it would be available to everyone on the planet within an hour.

John Darnielle

#99. I'm making tapes for insomniacs to use in the future. I'm going to sell them as a kit to cure insomnia.

Jonathan Turley

#100. You testified, in court, that you gave the interview tapes to Devlin.

Emma Flint