Top 376 Microphone Quotes & Sayings

It's all about being comfortable, forgetting there's a microphone in front of you.

A good microphone is an essential thing for a singer.

Speaking of stage freight. I was terrified! It was in NOLA at an all ages show. I was wearing Jeans, a Van Halen t-shirt, and a bandana on my neck. Once I gripped that microphone stand, I did not let go! I plugged my microphone into a guitar FX pedal. Then at the end of the a Black Sabbath song we were covering, I hit the guitar pedal. It was horrific!

I'm always in range of a microphone. I even have a studio at home.

Nobody gets between me and my microphone.

Even when I played, if they gave me the microphone after a match, whether a doubles final or a singles final, I'd handle the microphone pretty well.

A microphone fiend; I make beats do back flips.

I walk around and think about things. When I come across a thought that makes me laugh, I write it down. Then, at night, I say the thought to people through a microphone. I don't think about politics or pop culture very much, so those thoughts don't often make it to the microphone.

I went from MC to being MS, this microphone controller is the motivational speaker.

Anytime you give a man in a wig a microphone, anything can happen.

O'Reilly continues to hide behind his microphone.

Being on TV in front of people is a lot different than sitting in a dark room with a microphone. When I had my radio show, I was on four hours a day for 20-something years. If you put a live microphone in front of Mother Teresa for that amount of time, she'd piss somebody off.

Take a microphone out of my hands, and I'm just plain folks.

The state would rather give me an uzi than a microphone.

You're stuck in front of the microphone. You can't use your hands. I like to do things

I trust no one - that microphone, that book.

I want the fans to know that just because we have a microphone; we're no different from you.

I enjoy any chance to get in front of a microphone in a role. I'll do it.

Having a guy on a microphone yelling lines at you is counter to a lot of acting techniques.

It takes a little more time to get into the role, but not very much more. In making a record you don't have the sense of projection over a distance as in an opera house. We have this microphone and this magnifies all details of a performance, all exaggerations. In the theater, you can get away with a very large, very grand phrase. For the microphone, you have to tone it down. It's the same as making a film, your gestures will be seen in close-up, so they cannot be exaggerated as they would be in a theater.

I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.

So while you're imitating Al Capone, I'll be Nina Simone And defecating on your microphone.

When I grab the microphone, I am the greatest rapper, musician, and artist that ever lived, ever, in the entire universe - but when I put that microphone down, I am a man with so much to learn, personally and professionally.

I've earned this microphone. No one gave this to me. I've earned this microphone. I use it each day to enter the arena of ideas, and do whatever I can to persuade you to agree with me.

A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rather than someone who is bashing a plank and is spitting all over a microphone.

I'm a gear head. I love gear. If I have the choice, of course I'd rather use a great microphone, a Neumann microphone and a vintage Neve board.

I think if you pick up a microphone and you rap, you're a rapper.

I usually never walk by a microphone.

Now any person who plays an acoustic guitar standing up on stage with a microphone is a folk singer. Some grandmother with a baby in her arms singing a 500-year-old song, well, she's not a folk singer, she's not on stage with a guitar and a microphone. No, she's just an old grandmother singing an old song. The term "folk singer" has gotten warped.

When I'm on the microphone and I'm recording, or onstage, or shooting a video, I'm doing my job. When I'm not, I'm being myself.

I'm better on the pitch than with the microphone.

I hate being up onstage with a microphone.

I'm not the type of guy who is going to be out in front of a microphone for attention.

Any man with a microphone can tell you what he loves the most.

I think what's captivating about me on the microphone is my honesty.

The microphone is open. There is no delay. If I see something and want to say it right now, I can.

I did things with the microphone stand that no-one else has attempted to do.

When it comes down to the music, it's just you and the microphone. It's not you and the record execs.

Sir one more comment like that and I will strangle you with my microphone wire!

I was a shy kid with a broom handle that I pretended was a microphone.

I was a huge fan of Shane Douglas and how he used the microphone during a match.

Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver.

I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.

There's a lot of talk now about the PC police, and 'why is everything bad?' It isn't. What it is, is that marginalized and oppressed people who have never had a soapbox, who have never been given a microphone, suddenly have a microphone.

Man, if I get a chance to speak on the microphone, I've got to say something somewhere in there. You know, I'm going to laugh and have fun, too, but something has to be said that has some substance, because this is a platform, and the power that we have with words and with this microphone is phenomenal.

My microphone skills were developed at a young age watching my dad on the microphone. My dad DJ'ed bar mitzvahs, bat mitzvahs, things of that nature.

When people sit in front of a microphone, they feel empowered.

There aint a microphone brave enough to give me feedback!

You're stuck in front of the microphone. You can't use your hands. I like to do things.

When you sing opera you are very far from the people, you are onstage, and between you and the people there is the orchestra. So you have to launch your emotions very, very far. When you sing pop, you are singing very close - the microphone is very close to your mouth. You can whisper your emotions into the microphone.

I'm a hard act to follow, because when I'm done, I take the microphone with me.

As soon as I get the chance, I'll be back spouting nonsense on the microphone.

There is so much more than just what you do in the ring and what you do on the microphone.

Sadly, there are a lot of ignorant people that have access to a microphone.

Well I have a microphone and you don't so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!

When people heckle me, I have the microphone. And the press has the microphone.

I guess drag queens, by nature, have to do everything. When you start being a drag queen, you're grabbing the microphone, hosting the shows. Then, you're setting the microphone down and doing the number. You're spending the day before doing your wigs and sewing your costumes. You're doing everything.

We love to work together. Especially when he stands behind me at the microphone and we hug.

In standup, you don't have anything near you except a microphone.

Anyone that has a microphone, that temptation for the voice to be bigger than the message is always there.