microphone
Speech parts
1. microphone - Noun
2. microphone - Verb
Meaning
An instrument for intensifying and making audible very feeble sounds. It produces its effects by the changes of intensity in an electric current, occasioned by the variations in the contact resistance of conducting bodies, especially of imperfect conductors, under the action of acoustic vibrations.
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Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female voice is much more suited to melody. Men have this barky thing-we're domesticated apes with a microphone.
The state would rather give me an uzi than a microphone.
My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God.
Every time I talk about this, I say: when the singer is singing, he must be respected, you must be able to hear what he's saying. You can't put a trombone and a drum up there, and a microphone on the drum, microphones on everybody. You can't hear what he's saying.
Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver.
Sir one more comment like that and I will strangle you with my microphone wire!