Henry Irving Quotes

I told [Kruesi] I was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. He thought it absurd. However, it was finished, the foil was put on; I then shouted "Mary had a little lamb," etc. I adjusted the reproducer, and the machine reproduced it perfectly. On first words spoken on a phonograph.

That's called a microphone. It's a big sausage that picks up everything you say - and you're starting early.

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

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.

To capture sound is to isolate a moment, canonize it, enter it into the historical register.

From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture.

But I can't remember who is in my CD player now.

Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve.

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

Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.

Studios are designed to pull out all of that beautiful ambience you get from singing in a room, and then the engineer puts it back in digitally or through whatever machinery you've got.

I like to stay home and listen to recordings.

I have a very limited knowledge of recording, but the miracle of being able to capture sounds on magnetic tape and the miracle of electricity, and these little magnetic particles, is amazing to me.

Once upon a time, sound was new technology.

I can no longer type, so I use TalkingPoint and Dragon Dictate. It's a speech-to-text program, and there's an add-on for talking which some guys came up with.

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

The voice I use is a very old hardware speech synthesizer made in 1986. I keep it because I have not heard a voice I like better and because I have identified with it.

In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis.

Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.

I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.

I'm sure I'll go back again and record in the digital process.

They sent me some tapes of the original Mole and I thought it was pretty intriguing. I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there. It was fun. Turned out to be good.

When the picture was finished, they took me into the sound room and then I screamed more for about five minutes just steady screaming, and then they'd cut that in and add it.

I have this peculiar ability to be able to anticipate mouth movements on screen and fill them with words or sound.

I've never considered musical equipment very sacred.