Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago,… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
I think I was nervous enough, even at 3:00 a.m., that you could hear my heart beating over the microphone. — Steve Tibbetts Copy Share Image
I went from MC to being MS, this microphone controller is the motivational speaker. — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
I did things with the microphone stand that no-one else has attempted to do. — Rod Stewart Copy Share Image
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. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
When I was eight, my pals and I went up to my bedroom, put on our party frocks and mimed to ABBA… — Kylie Minogue Copy Share Image
I'm trying to capture a moment. It's not about the singer at the microphone. I'm trying to look for, like, a moment… — Danny Clinch Copy Share Image
I'm not a journalist any more. I don't have to stick a microphone up somebody's nostril and I don't have a camera… — Gerald Seymour Copy Share Image
What about little microphones? What if everyone swallowed them, and they played the sounds of our hearts through a little speaker. [...]… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I'm in school every day. It depends on what it is that you do with all that free time when I'm not… — MC Lyte Copy Share Image
You don't need 30 million people to listen to your podcast. If 10,000 people listen to your podcast, which is not a… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
I found at an early age the times when I learned the most about myself was when I got thrown out there… — Andrew Shue Copy Share Image
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… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
You know, every time it comes, every time that light comes on or every time that camera comes on, every time that… — Bernie Mac Copy Share Image
I have a no-apology policy. No apologies for jokes. I apologize in my real life all the time. I say ridiculous things,… — Kathy Griffin Copy Share Image
I like doing voiceover work. I just like it in general, because you're constantly working on a very first-instinct level. You show… — Ron Perlman Copy Share Image
have you ever noticed how a man orders food at a fast-food drive-through window? ... men have an innate desire to be… — Becky Freeman Copy Share Image
If some day they take the radio station away from us, if they close down our newspaper, if they don’t let us… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
I used to love to come to the ballpark. Now I hate it. Every day becomes a little tougher because of all… — Hank Aaron Copy Share Image
I've dabbled in running around on stage, and at certain times it's nice to step away from the anchor of the piano… — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be an NBA ball player since I was eight years old. I kind of went on the road… — Michael Bivins Copy Share Image
As you might imagine, if you're a teenager having a couple of people with microphones and guns always following you around, that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Those of us with a microphone who are blessed with the gift of being in the public eye have a special opportunity… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
The best time for gum is just before getting onstage. I need a minty-fresh microphone. — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
I'm liking the idea more and more of just standing up with a microphone and talking. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
It's not enough to be able to spell "magnificence" in your bedroom. You have to be able to spell it at the… — Cynthia Lewis Copy Share Image
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… — Nick Kroll Copy Share Image
If I ever get Manziel disease, I want all of you to smack me in the head with your microphones — Jameis Winston Copy Share Image
So while you're imitating Al Capone, I'll be Nina Simone And defecating on your microphone. — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
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,… — Big Boi Copy Share Image
As a broken microphone cannot broadcast a message, so a restless mind cannot transmit prayers to God — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
This microphone is the key to the universe. When you have this in your hands, you are the most powerful person in… — Hayley Williams Copy Share Image
Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone. — Flip Wilson Copy Share Image
Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
Oh I don't need an education Just a microphone's intoxication And I can't deal with concentration Give me tongues and stimulation — Katy Rose Copy Share Image
You're stuck in front of the microphone. You can't use your hands. I like to do things — Lita Ford Copy Share Image
It's much easier to spend a lot of time making your microphone louder than it is working on making your message more… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Real, rough and rugged, shine like a gold nugget, Every time I pick up the microphone, I drug it. — Jeru the Damaja Copy Share Image
My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image