Begins Quote by Tara Strong

I'm liking the idea more and more of just standing up with a microphone and talking.

— Madonna Ciccone

It's an enthralling experience to be in front of the mic and record a song.

— Aditi Rao Hydari

In the end when we're on stage, we push buttons, but when we're in the studio we're actually creating music that we play in…

— Hardwell

It's all about being comfortable, forgetting there's a microphone in front of you.

— Anderson East

[Sometimes] I sit in front of my [gaming] console with my headphones on and I play. I love that. It's a nice form of…

— Idris Elba

Take a microphone out of my hands, and I'm just plain folks.

— Willard Scott

I try to beat back the producers and engineers so they - there's not an excess of stuff used to squeeze my voice to…

— Iggy Pop

Most of the time, with voice-overs, you're recording before they've got the graphics, and you also don't get a whole script. I get my…

— Tricia Helfer

I'm a frail-looking wheelchair-using standup, and the audience are stunned when I take the mic.

— Liz Carr

Musicians want to be heard. So I'm not hiding. But I do like to leave it there onstage and be myself, in that sense.…

— Sixto Rodriguez

What we do every day onstage, there's lights, there's lots of other musicians, there's an audience, there's a microphone and mic stands - layers…

— Black Thought

I always make sure there's something for the audience to connect to, in terms of my movements relating to the sounds being heard.

— Jon Hopkins