Real, rough and rugged, shine like a gold nugget,
Every time I pick up the microphone, I drug it.
You shouldn't really have to use EQ in the studio if the instruments sound good. It should all be done with microphones and microphone placement.
I've never written lyrics. I get up in front of a microphone, and I just sing what comes to the top of my head.
It is easy to criticize me from behind a pen or a microphone, from someone who never set foot on a football field.
I think I was nervous enough, even at 3:00 a.m., that you could hear my heart beating over the microphone.
And my mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone.
If there's a microphone and a couple of Pink tracks, I'll step up. 'Get the Party Started' is a great start to any karaoke.
There's one theory that the funnier a comic is in his act, the more mind-numbingly boring he'll be when he's not holding a microphone.
You have to have a big ego in this world to propel yourself in front of the cameras, to sit behind the microphone, to believe that you can entertain millions of people.
Im a B-list celebrity trying to give it an honest look. They see me do actual work. ... I try to be the viewer with a microphone.
Every day I have a tour bus that comes around my house and stops. You can hear them on their microphone. If you don't embrace it, it's going to destroy you.
The best time for gum is just before getting onstage. I need a minty-fresh microphone.
I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn't picked me up.
When you're the person in the room with the microphone, you have a platform to talk about whatever you want, and it's much more interesting if we're discussing something that feels relevant.
Whether it's with a microphone in your face or if it's just a friend having coffee with you. It's really nice for somebody to ask, 'How are you? Are you OK?'
This microphone is the key to the universe. When you have this in your hands, you are the most powerful person in the whole world, let's get!.
You put a microphone in my hand on live TV, and that's just an opportunity for me to get ahead in life. That's the way I look at it.
I don't want to scare anybody here but we just received word from police that Howard Dean is loose and may be armed with a microphone.
I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, 'What else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?'
The best advice I received when I started out was to think about the camera or microphone as if it was a person to connect with.
Most rock movies are never authentic - you'll have someone supposedly in 1958 playing a 1990 guitar, and a 1986 microphone.
My dad was always a great talker on the microphone, so I tried to learn a lot from him in that way, and he's very old-school. He built the wrestling family that we have.
I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.
That's called a microphone. It's a big sausage that picks up everything you say - and you're starting early.
He'd actually done it! He leaned back into the microphone and whispered to the now silent cave: 'Come to the Cabaret!
Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone.
Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone.
Well I'm a sire, I set the microphone on fire,
Rap styles vary, and carry like Mariah
What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?
I'll have the music, and then I'll just turn the microphone on, press Play and Record and sing. And whatever comes out ends up being the melody.
I was born with a silver microphone in my mouth, and that was an advantage. My father wrote books and was also a great broadcaster.
I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute.
I'm a frustrated stand-up comic. If you hand me a microphone and I get one laugh, then I'll go on for 20 minutes.
He was a god of rock. He nearly solved all the world's problems with nothing but power chords and anguished cries into a microphone.
Oh I don't need an education Just a microphone's intoxication And I can't deal with concentration Give me tongues and stimulation
I always often say, when I was a kid, I wasn't just playing with baby dolls. I was standing in the mirror with brush in my hand as a microphone singing songs.
I apologize in my real life all the time. I say ridiculous things, I make mistakes constantly. But when I'm on stage, I'm at a microphone... it's a joke!
I don't like to use a microphone around my head while I'm teaching so I had to learn how to project from my stomach more.
When I first started to sing, people automatically asked what Barbi Benton was doing behind a microphone, and I'm determined to show them there is talent here.
I missed being onstage behind the microphone. After a while, it was hard to hear another voice singing my lyrics.
I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of 'what else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?'
When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I'm about to do.
It doesn't matter if one is live on-air or sitting through a commercial break. There aren't any on or off switches on a lapel pin microphone; it is always 'hot.'
The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.
Singing intimately is almost like thinking into a microphone, so it helps to have the song buried inside you.
It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
At the age of 15, I bought a USB microphone on a trip to the United States with my family, and that was my first recording studio.
You know, I've never done karaoke, ever. It makes me nervous - I think it's the lack of the guitar and just a microphone.
The IIconics are a feisty Australian duo who have been a team since they came to WWE. They're masters on the microphone, and they're willing to do whatever it takes to win!
I know what it is to win and to lose, and the last thing you want when you've lost is to have a microphone stuck under your nose.
I worked flipping cheeseburgers and Big Mac's at McDonald's, purchased a microphone, and cleared all the stuff out of my basement and started making music.
It's naturally kind of humiliating and strange to have a microphone; when you're young you just make movies, you don't worry about all the peripheral stuff that comes with it.
I'm an actor. Whether I'm on stage, in front of a camera or a microphone, what I do is the same - although with videogames it requires a lot of imagination.
A lot of time, we get ourselves in trouble, especially people who have a microphone and start to talk about things we assume.
Primarily I see myself as so much more than a rapper. I really believe I am the voice for a lot of people who don't have that microphone or who can't rap.
Human interaction is awkward and weird, even if it happens without a microphone or camera.
I have this personality, where I'm a natural introvert in my personal life, but when you give me a camera and microphone, I have a so much to say.
And when I'm on the microphone you best to wear your sweater,
Cause I'm cooler than a polar bear's toenails,
Oh hell, there he go again.
I made myself a promise that every time I turned on the microphone, no matter what it was, I was going to say something of value.
I've been fortunate enough to be given the blessing by Triple H down at NXT to start coming out to the ring with a microphone in my hand.
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