Songwriting is a very frustrating art form. You have to get on tape exactly what's playing inside your head

When I listen to those tapes now, the real cocaine shows; there's just nothing special about their content.

DNA, like a tape recording, carries a message in which there are specific instructions for a job to be done.

Conquering the universe one has to solve two problems: gravity and red tape. We could have mastered gravity.

I'm one of those cats who could listen to Public Enemy and then pop that out and throw an NWA tape in there.

All I know is that when I mix to digital and when I mix to tape I compare them and the tape always wins out.

The first CD I had was 'Definitely Maybe' by Oasis, and I had a tape of' 'Parklife' by Blur when I was nine.

Some shows, like PPG, tape in a group session, which is always more fun because you can play off each other.

I'd say writing songs is, for me, as much playing the tape recorder as it is playing guitar or writing words.

Lone women shouldn't stop in the middle of nowhere for giant unkempt strangers with duct tape on their faces.

I had been creating music on tape that was to be listened to as a recording, rather than through performance.

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.

When you're recording live, really good vintage instruments onto two-inch tape, it's the best fidelity you can get.

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.

I've talked about commodity price volatility in the past: go back to the tape... I never said it was about inflation.

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

The truth is that the E.U. constrains us in all manner of ways and throws reams of red tape around British businesses.

I could always hit. I learned to hit with a broomstick and a ball of tape and I could always get that bat on the ball.

Niggas on the internet know everything. You could make a freestyle tape in the fourth grade and they'll know about it.

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.

As long as those things are on vinyl or tape or what have you, the record companies are going to release them someday.

To me, recording with live instruments and tape takes things back to an older sound that I like but that's still fresh.

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.

There is no question that advertising is an art, and manipulation is the art of advertising through the medium of the tape.

Some of the best tape that I've ever studied was Mike Shanahan and John Elway in Denver, back-to-back Super Bowl win teams.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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