16 Music Quotes to Celebrate Stevie Wonder's Birthday

16 Music Quotes to Celebrate Stevie Wonder's Birthday
May 13th is a day for music quotes. Why? Because it's
Stevie Wonder's birthday, and what better way to celebrate
than with some quotes relating to the art that he loves?
Even if you're not a huge fan of his music, you have to
admit that he is quite an inspiring man. Overcoming the
obstacles in his life to become one of the greatest
musicians of all time ' the world needs more role models
like Stevie. So these music quotes go out to Stevie Wonder
and all his fans to celebrate the day of his birth.

1. "Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character
to keep you there." ~ Stevie Wonder

2. "Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday
life." ~ Berthold Auerbach

3. "Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places
of the soul." ~ Plato

4. "Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven
given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven." ~
Walter Savage Landor

5. "Music happens to be an art form that transcends
language." ~ Herbie Hancock

6. "Without music, life would be a mistake." ~ Friedrich
Nietzsche

7. "I really do seek to create music that is timeless, ...
Each project takes on its own life, and the songs from A
Time To Love are the most appropriate for the statement I
wanted to make." ~ Stevie Wonder

8. "There are more love songs than anything else. If songs
could make you do something we'd all love one another." ~
Frank Zappa

9. "Music isn't just learning notes and playing them, You
learn notes to play to the music of your soul." ~ Katie
Greenwood

10. "I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive
expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched
by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves
music." ~ Billy Joel

11. "Music is the vernacular of the human soul." ~ Geoffrey
Latham

12. "My mother would cry about my blindness and the
hopelessness of my ever seeing, but I told her I wasn't
sad. I believed God had something for me to do." ~ Stevie
Wonder

So there you have it -- twelve famous music quotes to
celebrate the birthday of Stevie Wonder. Whether you're a
fan of Stevie, a fan of triumph or just a fan of music in
general, let's celebrate this great man's accomplishments
together this year. It is not everyday we get to know
someone this special, insightful and courageous. Let's
celebrate Stevie Wonder's birthday with these great music
quotes.

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DVD Duplication of Old VHS Tapes

DVD Duplication of Old VHS Tapes
Most of us still have old copies of VHS video tapes stacked
on our home and office bookshelves just collecting dust.
When was the last time you actually used your video
cassette player? If you are like me, it has been sitting
disconnected underneath my DVD player for more than a year.

If you are in the same boat, then you will be happy to know
that the copying process of switching valuable content from
VHS tapes over via DVD duplication is really quite easy.
It's a great way to preserve and also share your old tapes,
whether personal or business related.

The process of converting to a DVD basically requires a VHS
tape player, or a camcorder. Simply plug either the
camcorder or the VHS tape player into your PC, as long as
your computer has the ports for plugging in these devices
in. You also need a minimum of 512 MB of RAM and a 2 GHz
processor, plus about 20 GB of hard drive free space. And
your computer also needs a CD-RW drive for the duplication
process. Plus you will need video editing software.

There are several conversion options if you want to
transfer VHS tapes to DVDs, and if produced properly, the
DVDs can look even better than the original VHS tapes
including formats such as VHS-C, SVHS, Hi8, regular, as
well as Betas. Here are some tips for what to do.

First you will need to capture a VHS video to a computer
video editing program using an analog-to-DVD converter.
Otherwise you would need to encode it to MPEG-2 and publish
a DVD. This provides some flexibility to edit the video as
you wish by adding transitions, music or special effects.
One drawback is that it is time consuming.

You could also capture the video to your computer as an
MPEG-2 using hardware capture devices that will convert VHS
to MPEG-2, then author the DVD. Some inexpensive hardware
analog-to-MPEG boxes offer good quality because the analog
source video does not have to be converted to DV before
it's encoded to MPEG.

Last, the fastest and easiest way to convert VHS to DVD is
to connect your VHS VCR or camcorder to a standalone DVD
recorder. This works like a VCR, and the VHS to DVD
recorder basically gives you a DVD copy of your tape in
real time. However it is important to make sure your analog
video is of the best quality possible because any flaws in
the original video tape might be magnified when encoded to
MPEG-2 and then converted to the DVD.

It takes very little time to copy VHS tape to DVD. However
if you are not inclined to take on this kind of project
yourself, a DVD authoring and production house will be
happy to do it for you via their own conversion and DVD
duplication process.

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Kristin Gabriel is the marketing communications director
for Acutrack, Inc. (http://www.acutrack.com). The company
enables customers to create, publish and deliver custom
content for DVD and CD distribution worldwide. Acutrack's
proprietary On Demand production produces and ship custom
packaged CDs or DVDs one at a time. Ideal for customers who
are selling downloadable content and are not sure how many
units to produce, On Demand takes care of inventory,
packaging and fulfillment.