Top 167 Recorder Quotes & Sayings

I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.

I had a diary full of lyrics and whatnot and a little voice recorder of guitar riffs.

Of course, the recorder will never have the repertoire of the piano or the violin.

I wanted to get a tape recorder, but I got a parrot instead. I think I did that joke backwards.

It's such a relief for me to sit in front of a tape recorder and not be using it to learn my lines.

In contemporary music, the challenge for me is to make the recorder sound as naturally expressive as, for example, the violin - without doing it too much and forcing the instrument. It is very easy to be overly expressive on the recorder, and finding the balance is quite difficult.

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 ain't never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.

Everything I'm doing musically is for its own sake. I'm recording at my house, trying really hard to write songs with a four-track tape recorder.

right' i said. 'but first, we need the car. and after that, the cocaine. and then the tape recorder, for special music, and some acapulco shirts.

When I was doing interviews at the FBI, my tape recorder battery died. They gave me a new one, and I said, 'Of course, this is bugged?'

I guess my first instrument was the recorder when I was about five or six.

I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.

I thought, 'If I'm going to die, I'm going to videotape it.' So I got out my little video recorder and was taping goodbyes to my family.

I write to be recorder, observer, participant, and sometimes, even judge. I want to engage the world as I see it with my whole self - all of those different aspects of it.

Music always hits me when I'm driving so I keep a recorder in my bag.

I did the first 'Oxygene' on an 8 tracks tape recorder with very few instruments, with no other choice than being minimalist.

I'll have to have a room of my own. Nobody could sleep with Dick. He wakes up during the night, switches on the lights, speaks into his tape recorder.

There are many forms of photography. I consider myself simply a recorder of that which I find of interest around me. I personally have no desire to create or stage direct ideas.

Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.

To me, the advantage of the recorder is that it is so natural. I love the fact that it is just a piece of wood, that there are almost no mechanics involved.

Looking for inspiration in expression, I have actually always looked to singers and violinists. I have never really looked only at the recorder as a remedy for my expressions.

I've always got a notepad on or a voice recorder recording ideas.

It was quite unusual to use the recorder as a concert instrument. But my mother, a pianist, actually helped me a lot by assuming that anything done on the piano can easily be done on the recorder! She helped me with technique and was just as critical about my playing as she was with her own. I think that has been one of my fortunes.

Life is marvelous now because I have a tape recorder.

A lot of times I had footage that didn't have sound [in the Dream of Life film] - either I didn't bring a sound recorder, or I forgot to turn on the sound recorder - so we would have to improvise and build those scenes.

I was broadcast-struck from an early age; I had saved up for a tape recorder and started making programmes.

I love threats. They make great quotes. Is that recorder working, Irene?

Recalling a memory is not like playing a tape recorder. It's a creative process.

With my recovery programme, I have to do a daily inventory of how my day has been. I am terribly dyslexic and have attention deficit disorder, so I have to carry a tape recorder everywhere I go.

If you want to kill off a child's interest in music, get them a recorder.

I used to take a recorder around and interview my parents and do impressions of my classmates as guests on my show.

Technology has very little to do with what I do. I have a purpose built studio but all I need for writing is my piano and a cassette recorder as I still use cassettes.

Many of my characters first came through to me as voices. That's why I use a tape recorder.

I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.

For me, just as a social recorder of 2016, there's a new girl that emerged that can shop in between Zara and designer and still maintain a sense of her personality and identity.

I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting.

The camera is more than a recorder, it's a microscope. It penetrates, it goes into people and you see their most private and concealed thoughts.

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.

Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live!

I first began with the recorder in our community music school. After that, I played horn and participated in the school orchestra.

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.

The country is not a democratic state. Therefore we fear that they might carry a recorder in their pocket or there may be bugs in the walls, and you cannot be absolutely sure that you get a straight testimony.

My first songs, I would just record them on this little tape recorder, and then I didn't start recording songs I really liked until my friend gave me a 4-track (recorder) and that's when my ideas really started coming together.

I ran to get my cassette recorder and sang 'We Got the Beat' into the recorder to document it. I knew I had written something special. It took two minutes. I didn't labor on the lyrics. It's a simple song, which goes back to the '60s, when I had my ears glued to the radio for the Stones, the Beatles, and the Beach Boys.

So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.

In this 21st century, bedtime doesn't matter at all. All that matters is what you set for your DVR [Digital Video Recorder].

I wanted to be the best guitar player in the world. And then my dad got me a portable recorder, so I started writing my own music.

Death is not complete annihilation. It is a pause. It is like pressing the pause button on a tape recorder.

I was 4 and dictating stories into a tape recorder, and my mom typed them up.

I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game.

If the black box flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn’t the whole airplane made out of that stuff?

I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them

I'm here as a radio journalist but am not even sure which part of a tape recorder takes the pictures.

Even as a kid, I'd have a recorder, and I'd lean it up against a TV and record 'I Love Lucy.' I loved hearing the audience laughing. It was really exciting to me.

In the Air Force, I had an old Wilcox Gay recorder, and I used to hear guitar runs on that recorder going (vocalizing) like the chords on "I Walk The Line." And I always wanted to write a love song using that theme, that tune.

I see myself as a recorder of history, sort of a visual historian.

I taught myself how to use a multi-track tape recorder, which was the first time I recorded myself.

I never do formal interviews. I don't use a tape recorder. I take notes but occasionally.

Today is a time of turbulence and stagnation, of threat and promise from a competitor: the magic, omnivorous videocassette recorder (VCR). In other words, it is business as usual.