Michel Faber

I'm constantly listening to music and thinking about it and compiling my own cassettes and CDs in obsessively specific order. I have quite lunatic agendas for what I want to achieve. They won't make sense to anyone other than me, but it is what I've spent most of my life doing.

Dutch Writer

Yandel

At first, because this genre of music was so urban, sometimes we would sing songs that were so aggressive. And my parents didn't like it. They would break my cassettes and say, 'That music is garbage.

Puerto Rican Musician

Fred Silverman

Succeeding in network prime time has gotten tougher. Every day, several thousand homes are wired for cable, and more people are buying videodisks and video cassettes. That all represents competition.

American Producer

Harland Williams

I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just turn it on and just start doing voices and characters. I just loved it.

Canadian Actor

Gilbert O'Sullivan

Technology has very little to do with what I do. I have a purpose built studio but all I need for writing is my piano and a cassette recorder as I still use cassettes.

Irish Musician

Clive Davis

I never paid attention when the LP became the cassette and the cassette became the CD and now we're dealing, you know, with MP3s. It's okay.

American Businessman

Christopher McCulloch

My first cassette was 'Synchronicity,' and my first CD was U2 'War' and King Crimson 'Discipline.

American Writer

Jermaine Fowler

I used to record 'Futurama' episodes on my cassette player and play it to help me go to sleep.

American Actor

Frank Sinatra Jr.

I spend a lot of time visiting friends, watching video cassette movies, and things like that.

American Singer

Laura Jane Grace

At 8, I got my first cassette, which was Def Leppard's 'Hysteria.

American Musician

Cassettes are outdated for music and video; modern alternatives like CDs or streaming services have replaced them.

Obsolescence

Cassettes are often seen in retro or vintage contexts, symbolizing past decades like the '80s and '90s.

Cultural Icon

Film cassettes are rarely used in the digital age, but they're essential for traditional film photography.

Photography Relic

Cassettes in cycling refer to gear parts; knowing this helps avoid confusion with other types of cassettes.

Bike Maintenance

Cycling cassettes have their specific terms, important for talking about bicycle mechanics or repairs.

Specific Jargon

In genetics, a cassette isn't a physical object but a piece of DNA used in laboratory research.

Scientific Context

Gene cassettes are advanced concepts and usually not encountered outside scientific texts or discussions.

Technical Term

 with stacks and stacks of hundreds and then eventually millions of cassettes, each cassette a personalized bank for one human. Nurses will take a sample of your cord blood right at birth and ship it off for cultivation, so that for the rest of your life, your stem cells are on file, banked,

Nabiha Saklayen: Could...

 So when I was a teenager, the obsession of buying cassettes, vinyls and CDs just kept growing. I was even working in a record store for many years and only ever got paid in records. One day I realized that I had thousands of records more than I could even listen to in my life.

How record collectors...

 that scarcity started to get eroded -- and I don't mean by digital technology; I mean by analog technology. Cassette tapes, video cassette recorders, even the humble Xerox machine created new opportunities for us to behave in ways that astonished the media business.

Defend our freedom to...

 The last hundred years have seen an incredible proliferation of devices that help you listen to the same thing again and again. Records, cassettes, CDs, or streamed audio files. Have these technologies bread some kind of unique, contemporary experience,

Earworms: Those songs...

 and I have my, my cassette film, my shutter, my cape, and I asked her to come into the frame. And she covers her face below these large dark eyes with a scarf in order to protect her identity, and she starts posing. And she pushes out her buttock

"Where Love Is Illegal":...

 a small crew of employees regular folks like producers technicians and news readers are staying behind to try and protect a slice of their city's culture before they escape they're pulling cassettes and reel-to-reel recordings down from the

The Secret Somali...

 grammys too and a producer gets an idea let's ask her to sing nest and dorma so he runs to aretha's dressing room pops the cassette into a boom box and plays the song for her and says hey can you sing this like on stage now she said

The Secret of Musical...

 tape cassette of footage upon which was about seven minutes of footage now that might sound like a lot but for a camera operator to do a month of filming and have about seven minutes of footage if i'm honest i came out the hide i

Filming Birds of...

 cassette tapes of her music to Barry and his wife Margaret Kilgallen who was also an artist Margaret was beautiful a wisp of a woman with wavy auburn hair and vivid blue eyes self-effacing but stubborn an idealist and an imp she

Living in a shadow PIPE...

 they thought they were on the top of the world. JIM They were planning to eventually become the Kennedys of Colombia. WILLIAM In the narcos cassettes,