1. microphone - Noun
2. microphone - Verb
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryMen 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. Brandon Boyd
The state would rather give me an uzi than a microphone. Mumia Abu-Jamal
My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God. Nick Cave
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. Compay Segundo
Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver. Harlan Ellison
Sir one more comment like that and I will strangle you with my microphone wire! Adam Sandler