Cassettes Quotes:

I have some vivid memories of walking around as a child with a cassette tape.

- James Vincent McMorrow

topic: Children, Memories, Tape, Cassette Tapes, Cassettes

Tonight, I feel like my whole body is made out of memories. I'm a mix-tape, a cassette that's been rewound so many times you can hear the fingerprints smudged on the tape.

- Rob Sheffield

source: Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.12, Crown Archetype

topic: Memories, Tape, Tonight, Fingerprints, Cassettes

I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time, when I'm recording to two-inch tape, I still have a romantic vision of how songs sounded coming out of the radio when I was younger, and how they sounded coming out of my little four-track cassette player.

- M. Ward

topic: Song, Player, Two, Cassettes

I grew up I guess you'd say in the cassette era.

- Beck

source: Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. July 13, 2009.

topic: Eras, Grew Up, Grew, Cassettes

I love the Digital Era! I grew up in a time that started from cassette tapes.

- Yukmouth

topic: Tape, Eras, Digital, Cassette Tapes, Cassettes

The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.

- Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

source: "Steve Jobs In Memoriam: Remembrances and Tributes". www.billboard.com. October 05, 2011.

topic: Artist, Technology, Player, Development Of Technology, Cassette Tapes

A great song is a great song, whether it's on vinyl or CD or cassette or reel to reel or mp3. Then again, that might be an overly optimistic view, but I do think that great music will transcend the medium in which it is delivered.

- Moby

topic: Song, Optimistic, Thinking, Cassettes

I listen to tapes a lot. I have a car that only (has a cassette player). I like the nostalgic factor.

- Angel Olsen

topic: Player, Car, Tape, Cassettes

You can't even imagine how it felt to have a cassette that you could take with you with a microphone so you could put down an idea and not have to hum it a million times to remember what it was.

- Robert Plant

topic: Ideas, Remember, Imagine, Cassettes

The reason I make that distinction cassette before CD is you have to listen to it in the order in which I've curated it for you. You know, side A to side B is our act break.

- Lin-Manuel Miranda

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Order, Cds, Sides, Cassettes

I have a large number of cassettes, but I look at them mainly for reference purposes.

- Jean-Luc Godard

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Numbers, Looks, Purpose, Cassettes

I was happy using cassettes when I was fifteen, but I'm sure they were sneered at in their day by audiophiles.

- Jonny Greenwood

topic: Fifteen, Cassettes

With modern parts atop old ones, the brain is like an iPod built around an eight-track cassette player.

- Sharon Begley

topic: Player, Ipods, Eight, Cassettes

When I was 10, 11, 12 years old, I would pretend to be on the radio. I bought a mixer and these big, ugly headphones and I would literally broadcast the cassette tapes in my bedroom.

- Ryan Seacrest

topic: Years, Ugly, Radio, Cassette Tapes, Cassettes

I remember Prince gave me a cassette of Purple Rain. It was like 20 minutes long and he asked me to write something on it. I tried for a month and then he came to L.A. I went to see him and said, "I can't do it. It's too perfect. It's like 'Stairway to Heaven.'" He said OK and then I go, "I can keep the cassette, right?" He said, "Of course and thank you for trying."

- Stevie Nicks

source: Source: www.usmagazine.com

topic: Rain, Writing, Purple, Cassettes, Stairway To Heaven

I remember the first time I received a cassette tape of a band called The Clash. I became an instant fan of the Clash and then bought their albums after that and went to their concerts and gave them my money... but I first got it for free.

- Michael Moore

source: Source: www.theaquarian.com

topic: Albums, Tape, Band, Cassette Tapes, Cassettes

I love the Beatles. I haven't named any kids after them but I still really love them. They were the first group that I was ever properly aware of. In my early teens I would sometimes stay in and listen to the radio all day in the hope that I would catch a song by them that I'd never heard before and be able to tape it on my radio-cassette player.

- Jarvis Cocker

topic: Song, Kids, Player, Cassettes

At home I don't really have any drum machines or anything like that, I just have a piano and a cassette machine, an old-fashioned one, an old relic which I've always used.

- Bryan Ferry

source: "An Unsettling Creation: Bryan Ferry Interviewed By Taylor Parkes". Interview with Taylor Parkes, thequietus.com. November 13, 2014.

topic: Home, Piano, Machines, Cassettes

People have reacted to the length of "Aquarius" in very positive ways. For example, at the beginning, you have people in a car on the beach at night. One character says, "I'm going to play you this great track." She pushes in a cassette tape, and they listen to about 45 seconds of Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust." You can actually see the pleasure registering on their faces, but it takes time, and audiences have appreciated that.

- Sonia Braga

topic: Beach, Queens, Character, Cassette Tapes, Cassettes

There is a British pop group called God. At a recent book signing the lead singer introduced himself and gave me a cassette. I have heard the voice of God.

- J. G. Ballard

topic: Book, Voice, Groups, Cassettes

I was going to tape some records onto a cassette, but I got the wires backwards. I erased the all of the records. When I returned them to my friend, he said, "Hey, these records are all blank."

- Steven Wright

topic: Funny, Humor, Wire, Cassettes

I grew up in the time just when cassettes were waning and CDs were growing. And so mix tapes - and not mix CDs - mix tapes were an important part of the friendship and mating rituals of New York adolescents. If you were a girl and I wanted you - to show you I like you, I would make you a 90-minute cassette wherein I would show off my tastes. I would play you a musical theater song next to a hip-hop song next to an oldie next to some pop song you maybe never heard, also subliminally telling you how much I like you with all these songs.

- Lin-Manuel Miranda

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Girl, Song, I Like You, Cassettes, Mating

When I was a teenager, working towards dropping out of high school to starting to tour with bands, I'd drive around in my VW Bug every morning before school, very stoned listening over and over to Zeppelin. This song got to me because it just seemed mystical. There is something about those Celtic tunings that almost sounds Eastern. Somehow it would sweep me up into my own little trance-like state, like Sting with those shamans in the Amazon. But all I had was a bong and a Led Zeppelin cassette.

- Dave Grohl

topic: Song, Morning, Teenager, Dropping Out, Cassettes

One of the first cassette tapes I ever purchased was the Rambo III score. I was not allowed to see Rambo, but my mom would allow me to buy the music, so I would listen to that score over and over and imagine the movie. But those limitations and not being able to access those things made me so much more excited about them.

- Dan Trachtenberg

source: Source: www.empireonline.com

topic: Mom, Rambo, Able, Cassette Tapes, Cassettes

Got my Allman Brothers cassettes stacked up on the dash, got some Jack back in the trunk and a tank full of gas.

- Waylon Jennings

topic: Brother, Musical, Tanks, Cassettes

I like making little videos and little records. I've always loved video cameras and four-track cassette recorders, still cameras, anything.

- Joseph Gordon-Levitt

topic: Track, Cameras, Video, Cassettes, Video Cameras

Whenever I see something that looks like it could be good - whether it's on vinyl, CD or cassette - if it's not too expensive, I'll take a chance.

- Will Oldham

topic: Cds, Looks, Chance, Cassettes

Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make records in their bedrooms.

- David Byrne

topic: Home, Two, Littles, Cassettes, Turntables

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.

- Dwight Yoakam

topic: Song, Memories, Past, Recorders, Cassettes

I think video is the best market. When the cassette market comes out, if you just do movies that nobody else can do, that'll be the new way.

- Andy Warhol

source: Andy Warhol, Mark Francis, Mattjis Visser, Museum Kunst Palast (Düsseldorf, Germany), Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (2004). “Andy Warhol: the late work”, Prestel Publishing

topic: Cassettes

If some unemployed punk in New Jersey, can get a cassette to make love to Elle McPherson for $19.95, this virtual reality stuff is going to make crack look like Sanka.

- Dennis Miller

topic: Reality, Making Love, Cracks, Cassettes, Virtual Reality

There is a lot of money to be made from miseducation, from the easy to read easy to learn textbooks, workbooks, teacher manuals, educational games and visual aids. The textbook business is more than a billion-dollar-a-year industry and some of its biggest profits come from 'audio-visual aids' - flash cards, tape cassettes, and filmstrips. No wonder the education industry encourages schools to focus on surface education.

- Marva Collins

topic: Education, Teacher, School, Cassettes, Audio Visual

Let's assume that all the cassettes of monochrome film Cartier-Bresson ever exposed had somehow been surreptitiously loaded with colour film. I'd venture to say that about two thirds of his pictures would be ruined and the remainder unaffected, neither spoiled nor improved. And perhaps one in a thousand enhanced.

- Philip Jones Griffiths

topic: Two, Would Be, Venture, Cartier, Monochrome

I become one of those people who walks alone in the dark at night while others sleep or watch Mary Tyler Moore reruns or pull all-nighters to finish up some paper that's due first thing tomorrow. I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece. I want all my important possessions, my worldly goods, with me at all times. I want to hold what little sense of home I have left with me always.

- Elizabeth Wurtzel

source: "Do the rich just work harder? Some CEOs certainly think so" by Jana Kasperkevic, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2014.

topic: Book, Sleep, Home, Cassettes, Reruns

I used singing as a safety measure. I would pay attention to what songs the popular girls liked, learn those songs from the radio or library cassettes, and then "accidentally" sing or hum these songs in class. This would impress the girls, who would then defend me from the boys.

- Vivek Shraya

topic: Girl, Song, Boys, Cassettes, Popular Girl

I have to shoot three cassettes of film a day, even when not 'photographing', in order to keep the eye in practice.

- Josef Koudelka

topic: Photography, Eye, Order, Cassettes

Maybe I'll start from the initial idea, what motivated me to do that. In 1953, I had access to a tape recorder. Tape recorders were not widely available. There was no cassette tape back then. It was a Sears Roebuck tape machine. I put a microphone in the window and recorded the ambience.

- Pauline Oliveros

source: Source: www.artpractical.com

topic: Ideas, Tape, Machines, Recorders, Cassette Tapes

I got a new 4-track cassette recorder a year or so after high school. For a while I would just stare at it thinking, how am I going to do this if I don't play guitar or keyboards? How am I going to write and record a song if I don't know how to play any instruments? I mean, I played the violin, but I didn't know anything about how to work a 4-track.

- Petra Haden

topic: Song, Writing, School, Recorders, Cassettes

Last year we drove across the country...We had one cassette tape to listen to on the entire trip... I don't remember what it was.

- Steven Wright

topic: Funny, Country, Humor, Cassette Tapes, Cassettes

As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.

- David Byrne

topic: Cylinders, Ephemeral, Music Is, Live Performance, Discs

I graduated from high school in 1963. There were no computers, cell phones, Internet, credit cards, cassette tapes or cable TV.

- Jeffrey Gitomer

topic: School, Phones, Cells, Cell Phone, Cable Tv

For any producer I've ever worked with, their toughest job is to convince me to not to obscure my vocals. A lot of people don't like the sound of their own voice on, like, cassette tape or something. It's like that for me, and other songwriters I know. Like, "Oh God, that's what I sound like?"

- Ryan Adams

topic: Jobs, Voice, People, Cassette Tapes, Cassettes

Martin, Dave, and I get together and rough out a few songs and put them on cassettes for some reference...With the actual music, I'm not interested in objectivity, quite the opposite. I want a solely and totally subjective experience...A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.

- Ian Anderson

topic: Song, Children, Objectivity, Cassettes

I get nostalgic for things that didn't really exist. I might have a cassette from the first time a Melle Mel track, say, got played on radio in Manchester. And it might be a copy of a copy of a copy of a tape and there's all these weird nuances and distortions that have affected what I know as the truth, if you like, of that track.

- Rob Brown

source: "Autechre". Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. February 18, 2008.

topic: Track, Radio, Might, Cassettes

I get cassettes near Academy Award time of every movie that's made that thinks it has some kind of chance for a nomination - that's when I watch my movies

- William Peter Blatty

topic: Thinking, Awards, Watches, Academy, Cassettes

I got the idea for Netflix after my company was acquired. I had a big late fee for Apollo 13. It was six weeks late and I owed the video store $40. I had misplaced the cassette. It was all my fault.

- Reed Hastings

topic: Ideas, Apollo, Video, Cassettes, Apollo 13

I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just turn it on and just start doing voices and characters. I just loved it.

- Harland Williams

source: "Harland Williams knew he was destined for greatness". Interview with Christian Williams, www.avclub.com. March 10, 2010.

topic: Character, Boys, Voice, Recorders, Cassette Tapes

The key to writing for Richard (Pryor) was to just push his buttons and then know when to push the buttons on your cassette recorder. You'd get him started, then surreptitiously start recording when he got inspired and started walking around the room and improvising in character. Then you'd get it all transcribed and take credit for it.

- Alan Thicke

topic: Writing, Character, Keys, Improvising, Recorders

I started by studying Kiswahili to learn the dialect. Then, I studied tapes, documentaries, footage, and audio cassettes of Idi Amin's speeches. And I met with his brothers, his sisters, his ministers, his generals' all kinds of people, in order to try to understand him.

- Forest Whitaker

source: Source: aalbc.com

topic: Cassettes