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I had been creating music on tape that was to be listened to as a recording, rather than through performance.
I'd say writing songs is, for me, as much playing the tape recorder as it is playing guitar or writing words.
I adore the work of Stephen Sondheim. I like musicales in general. They make surprisingly great running tapes.
We are determined to improve the economic environment by getting foreign investors in and by cutting red tape.
I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.
After the 9/11 attacks, I dutifully stocked up on rolls of duct tape and N-95 masks, as the government recommended.
A battle goes on in the stock market and the tape is your telescope. You can depend upon it seven out of ten cases.
You're literally sized up with measuring tape as a 13- or 14-year-old girl. I wanted to opt out of that experience.
When you're recording live, really good vintage instruments onto two-inch tape, it's the best fidelity you can get.
So I'll put on my bob marley tape And practice what I preach Get jah lost in the reggae mon As I walk along the beach
I've talked about commodity price volatility in the past: go back to the tape... I never said it was about inflation.
Niggas on the internet know everything. You could make a freestyle tape in the fourth grade and they'll know about it.
The truth is that the E.U. constrains us in all manner of ways and throws reams of red tape around British businesses.
As long as those things are on vinyl or tape or what have you, the record companies are going to release them someday.
You haven't been on tape, nobody sees what you can do, nobody sees how you play, so they don't have anything to watch.
There's a point when your tape of life runs off the reel and there's this stillness of your own - I got to know myself.
If I see a roll of Bubble Tape, a bag of Haribo Gold-Bears or a pouch of green-apple Big League Chew, I'm eleven again.
I tape my list of goals, both large and small, above my bed so I can see them when I wake up. This holds me accountable.
In the early '90s, my cousin gave me a Snoop Dogg cassette tape, and the rawness of the lyrics were something new to me.
He was the boy that made mix tapes with themes and hand-colored covers until the day he hit my sister and stopped crying.
What makes 'good tape'? That is the question that has consumed my life for the past 20 years, and I have an answer for you
We've had incredibly huge obstacles in our way - no tapes, no royalties, no cooperation on any level - and we sort it out.
Developing countries often have hypertrophied bureaucracies, requiring businesses to deal with enormous amounts of red tape.
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.
If I tape an 11-hour day, guess which parts end up on air. Not the bits when I'm pleasant, but the parts when I'm obnoxious.
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 did the first 'Oxygene' on an 8 tracks tape recorder with very few instruments, with no other choice than being minimalist.
It's your living room, it's your life, go nuts. You like Home Improvement? Tape it and go over it like it's the Zapruder film.
As actors, when you can't be in the room with the casting director or the producers, you put yourself on tape and send it off.
I'd just like to know what a cop WOULD have to do to get indicted - and what good are cop cameras since Eric Garner IS on tape?
I knew every one of my father's lines in 'Glory' - I broke the VHS tape - but I hid my love of acting to make it as my own man.
My mum and my dad have really good taste in movies. My gran would tape them off the TV and write notes about them, rating them.
Today Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge lowered the terror alert from orange to yellow. Does anybody need 16 miles of duct tape?
I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.
Coaches can talk and talk and talk about something, but if you get it on tape and show it to them, it is so much more effective.
In my screenplays - from the very beginning I've always used tape. I talk my screenplays. And then have somebody transcribe them.
The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.
Fame is a four-letter word; and like tape or zoom or face or pain or life or love, what ultimately matters is what we do with it.
I can kind of envision one person with a lot of machines, tapes, and electronic set-ups...singi ng or speaking and using machines.
The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate.
You can do a lot with Scotch tape. Almost anything! I love that you can hem a dress, and its an instant remedy in a fashion crises.
When I put out my first mixtape, '50 Cent is the Future,' it was the first tape where an artist did the entire tape in song format.
Funny how words in one language get used in another language. For example, 'scotch' in Russian is tape and 'pampers' means diapers.
I'm actually going to self-produce my next tape that I'm working on, 'Platinum Frame'. This going to be my second official mixtape.
Recording is a lengthy process, but onstage it's completely different; tape is not running - life is running, and cannot be rewound.
Every single morning, I have a person sitting right there next to me in prayer with a tape recorder - and a song comes up every day.
When we're not on the practice field, I'm watching tape, and when I'm not watching tape, I'm doing body work or something like that.
Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic treatment. No magic black boxes!
When you're recording to tape, you usually just settle for what you have. There's not a lot of options to manipulate the performance.
I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.