Recording Quotes

“He likes a day in the studio to end, he says, "when my knees are all skinned up and my pants are wet and my hair's off to one side and I feel like I've been in the foxhole all day. I don't think comfort is good for music. It's good to come out with skinned knuckles after wrestling with something you can't see. I like it when you come home at the end of the day from recording and someone says, "What happened to your hand?" And you don't even know. When you're in that place, you can dance on a broken ankle.”
― Tom Waits

“Dead voices, lost sounds, forgotten noises, vibrations lockstepping into the abyss and now too distant ever to be recaptured!...What sort of arrows would be able to transfix such birds?”
― Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Tomorrow's Eve

“If I could record them and transmit them to the present age, they would constitute nothing more, nowadays, than dead sounds. They would be, in a word, sounds other than what they actually were, and from what their phonographic labels pretended they were – since it's in ourselves that the silence exists. It was while the sounds were still mysterious that it would have been really interesting to render the mystery palpable and transferable.”
― Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, L'Ève Future

“One of the reasons I love working in voiceover (and audiobooks) so much is that I'm an old soul, and every time I go up to the microphone, I feel like I'm doing a classic radio play or something. I really like that.”
― Jason Frazier

“In the era of angry and aggressive policing, it is an honorable service to your fellow citizens to video record police officers interactions with the common people.”
― Steven Magee

“We sometimes take photos (or record a video) so that we can later see what was happening while we were busy taking photos (or recording a video).”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“When you realize that incompetent police officers are harassing you, you need to call 911 and demand that a police supervisor be immediately dispatched to the scene. In the mean time you need to be video recording everything, as police officers are known for their blatant lies and fabrications.”
― Steven Magee

“Memory is a few lines snipped from a larger story that we are privileged to tuck away between the pages of our minds.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“There has never been a time in human history where so many people routinely carry recording and surveillance devices.”
― Steven Magee

“If I am ever unexpectedly stopped in my car by the police, my response after pulling over in a populated area is to politely and clearly inform them that I am unarmed, I am recording everything, if they want to take me to the police station that they will need to appoint a lawyer, and I am now using my USA federal right to silence.”
― Steven Magee

“People that have a police car behind them pulling them over should put on their hazard lights and continue slowly driving to the nearest densely populated public place, such as a supermarket or shopping center. Pull over outside the busy entrance and start your video camera. Inform the police officer that you are video recording and very slowly give the requested documentation. Exercise your legal right to silence while the many independent witnesses video record the unexpected stop that rudely interrupts your day. If you are given a ticket, choose to go to court. It will give you time to obtain independent legal advice about the allegation.”
― Steven Magee

“He wouldn't perform without a recording now, she was certain, like a poet working in the oral tradition who had been contaminated by the advent of the recording device and so insisted that all improvisations be saved for posterity.”
― David Cronenberg, Consumed

“Oh! The melancholy, the fantastic melancholy of that
invention that freezes sounds, just as Francois Rabelais had so clownishly imagined! Was it necessary that, no sooner born, the most seductive of discoveries, which fixes in life life's most ephemeral voices, should enter into the service of death?”
― Maurice Renard, Hands of Orlac

“Your utility meters, smart televisions, cell phones, telephones, computers, credit cards, banks, and internet are all surveillance devices that are recording your activities and that information may be later used against you.”
― Steven Magee

“Nick Klezek Recording Company - Chicago

Life is a song, love is the music”
― Nick Klezek

“Those that turn a blind eye to privacy concerns do not lose sight of public scrutiny.”
― Martin Uzochukwu Ugwu

“When dealing with a crazy neighbor, I was very surprised to have my legal ability to protect myself by video recording the neighbor removed by the legal system.”
― Steven Magee

“I discovered my severe sleep apnea by using a recording pulse oximeter. No one in my family has a history of using CPAP or BiPAP machines, even though I had to use them for several years. After many years of having sleep apnea, I successfully cleared it up.”
― Steven Magee

“After Hurricane Ian, the Florida sheriff stated there were ‘hundreds’ dead. A few hours later they said there were no confirmed fatalities. It emerged they were not formally recording the majority of the fatalities until a later time.”
― Steven Magee

“The next time I pass through the high altitude Denver International Airport in Colorado, I will be wearing a recording body camera for my own personal protection! The staff there are bizarre!!!”
― Steven Magee

“During an abduction, it is important to reverse the roles as early as you can through shouting, calling 911 and video recording the event.”
― Steven Magee

“My policy of always recording police encounters saved me from toxic police officers in Denver International Airport.”
― Steven Magee

“Video recording police encounters may save your life.”
― Steven Magee

“Video recording police officers is how a common person enforces the law.”
― Steven Magee

“Why do police body cameras not have a visible flashing light to let the public know they are recording?”
― Steven Magee

“The medical profession could not diagnose my low blood oxygen levels. It fell onto me to purchase a recording pulse oximeter and detect the erratic blood oxygenation levels.”
― Steven Magee, Pandemic Supplements

“I encountered two police officers and a suspect struggling at the side of the road. The suspect was calling out for help. When the police officers saw me video recording them, they made me stop the recording by making me move my car!”
― Steven Magee

“While the police officer you are interacting with may be wearing a body camera, there is no guarantee it is switched on and recording audio and video.”
― Steven Magee

“How we understand history is largely contingent on the perspective and objective of the hand that records it.”
― Michelle Good, Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada

“When you create art, you don‘t think. You only wait to record impressions as they drop on your soul. Art is raw fire, and thinking is water. They can‘t mix together. You can think later. But create now!”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Sips And Little Portions