Tape Quotes
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Of course there is always a reason for fluctuations, but the tape does not concern itself with the why and wherefore. It doesn't go into explanations. I didn't ask the tape why when I was fourteen, and I don't ask it to-day, at forty. The reason for what a certain stock does to-day may not be known for two or three days, or weeks, or months. But what the dickens does that matter? Your business with the tape is now not tomorrow. The reason can wait. But you must act instantly or be left.
Edwin Lefevre
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It's very clean. With tape, you get noise.
Herb Alpert
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You go to work, tape five shows in one day and then go home and play golf for the rest of the week and then start the week all over. I thought if something like that came along, I'd love to do that.
Winston Conrad Martindale
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Express yourself, put stuff down on tape, and see what lives.
Travis Barker
Blink-182
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A battle goes on in the stock market and the tape is your telescope. You can depend upon it seven out of ten cases.
Edwin Lefevre
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Tape reading is a lost art that today is not very useful.
Steven A. Cohen
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I remember rehearsing it, and it was the one that we were really excited about and thought would sound the best, and once it was down on tape, it was like, This doesn't actually sound that good.
Meg White
The White Stripes
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We never heard of tape. Everything was live, live, live.
Eydie Gorme
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I'm so used to taping myself and sending it off and never hearing back. I started to believe that nobody actually ever sees my tapes, apart from my agent.
Holliday Grainger
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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
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When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.
Sherman Alexie
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There's a point when your tape of life runs off the reel and there's this stillness of your own - I got to know myself.
Melissa Etheridge
