Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a…

I'd been on everybody else's show and there was always a preinterview. Somebody would come with a tape recorder and you'd talk for three…

— James Lipton

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

— Barry Gibb

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

— P. J. O'Rourke

No medicine man these days can afford to be without a portable tape recorder. Without the aid of this modern device, which may be…

— Muriel Spark

Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant 'Da da da da' instead of 'Boom…

— Eddie Van Halen

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

— Peter O'Toole

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

— Barry Bonds

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

— John Frusciante

It is just like your tape-recorder. It records, it reproduces - all by itself. You only listen. Similarly, I watch all that happens, including…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

— William S. Burroughs

Life is marvelous now because I have a tape recorder.

— Olga Korbut

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before…

— Brian Eno

I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just turn it on and…

— Harland Williams

Every single morning, I have a person sitting right there next to me in prayer with a tape recorder - and a song comes…

— Andrae Crouch

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

— Michael Finkel