Microphones Quotes

“Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of radio, believed that sound waves never completely die away, that they persist, fainter and fainter, masked by the day-to-day noise of the world. Marconi thought that if he could only invent a microphone powerful enough, he would be able to listen to ancient times.”
― Hari Kunzru, White Tears

“Microphones and speakers are cousins like hoovers and hairdryers.”
― Alain Bremond-Torrent, running is flying intermittently

“I discovered very early that my instrument wasn't my voice," he said to me once. "It was the microphone.”
― Pete Hamill, Why Sinatra Matters