Quotes About Ipods

#1. The advent of the mobile phone was a disaster. We are forced to listen, open-mouthed, to other people's intimate conversations. Increasingly, we are all in our virtual bubbles when we are out in public, whether we are texting, listening to iPods, reading or just staring dangerously at other people.

Lynne Truss

#2. The forces that run the world always try to keep things under control. The population might be having a wonderful time, buying iPods and going to nice restaurants, but I still feel they're all kind of under control.

Terry Gilliam

#3. Gone are the days when you'd have to tune in to a mad illegal radio station late at night to be able to hear the rapper of your choice. That's all changed now. That's all gone out of the window. And I feel like I represent that change. I represent the era of iPods and Shuffle and things like that.

Tinie Tempah

#4. IPods just made music about how many songs you could have on you at all times.

Timothy Simons

#5. Everything we have today that's cool comes from someone wanting more of something they loved in the past. Action figures, videogames, superhero movies, iPods: All are continuations of a love that wanted more.

Patton Oswalt

#6. Computers are no more able to create information than iPods are capable of creating music.

Robert J. Marks II

#7. A few dozen kids sprawled in the seats in front of him, listening to iPods, talking, or sleeping.

Rick Riordan

#8. Digital television, satellite radio, videogames, iPods - so much media. Do books even matter anymore?

Mo Rocca

#9. Now ... in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, ipods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.

Harper Lee

#10. Sure, they all have iPods, smartphones, whatever. Generally speaking, it's in our own best interest to keep some kind of electronic device in their hands. Otherwise they might talk to us.

Lisa Gardner

#11. I just cut songs I love and that represent what I want to say. And if it crosses over, that's very flattering. It's cool to know that with people listening to rock and rap, I'm sitting on their iPods along with that stuff.

Luke Bryan

#12. I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.

Natascha McElhone

#13. My husband and I own half a dozen iPods, a Mac desktop, and four Mac laptops. We're clearly fans of Mr. Jobs' work.

Sarah Lacy

#14. How absurd that our students tuck their cell phones, BlackBerrys, iPads, and iPods into their backpacks when they enter a classroom and pull out a tattered textbook.

Eli Broad

#15. I'm really curious how the private listening - iPods, people listening on their phones - how that might eventual effect music. There'll be a whole genre of music that really works on a kind of one to one headphone or earbud level but doesn't really work when you play it in a room.

David Byrne

#16. I strongly encourage listening to the radio to hear something you haven't heard before. It's a very healthy thing to do. It's strange: unless you reload your iPods every couple of weeks, you're listening to and recycling the same music all of the time. I'm serious. Listen to your radio station.

Alvin Lee

#17. Tens of millions of people have iPods, whereas eight years ago, they didn't know they were missing them.

Daniel H. Pink

#18. 35,000 dollars equals a whole bunch of ipods!

Jose Lopez

#19. Mia: Where do their other things go? Like mobile phones and all the music on ipods? I imagine mountains of phones. Songs forgotten in clouds.

A J Betts

#20. A lot of things went incredibly well for 'Scrubs': from a ridiculous number of downloads on the iPods, to whenever they issue a new season on DVD it kinda sells out, and we got nominated for an Emmy. To be picked up for six years is all gravy, man.

John C. McGinley

#21. The Internet is global and seemingly omniscient, while iPods and phones are all microscopic workings encased in plastic blobjects. Compare that to a steam engine, where you can watch the pistons move and feel the heat of its boilers. I think we miss that visceral appeal of the machine.

Scott Westerfeld

#22. Success doesn't bring happiness. Only material stuff like money, cars and iPods can do that. And I've already got all that. So I have to find other ways to amuse myself.

Murdoc Niccals

#23. As music migrates into our iPods, CD collections require less and less room, residing in our heads rather than resounding off the walls. The protracted labor of amassing a personal music library has lost its detective zeal.

James Wolcott

#24. Now, 75 years [after To Kill a Mockingbird], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.
[Open Letter, O Magazine, July 2006]

Harper Lee

#25. A lot of guys are out there with their iPods. I'm not one of them. I just never really got into it.

Karch Kiraly

#26. We have parties at my house. My girlfriends and I play our iPods, with all of our favorite songs. We pick our songs and jump up on the counter and dance, and do runway stuff, and we take video with my camera. When I'm with my girlfriends, I act like I'm 19.

Avril Lavigne

#27. People ridiculously overvalue aesthetics and beauty when evaluating products. It's one of the reasons iPods, and, for that matter, Keanu Reeves, are so successful.

Joel Spolsky

#28. I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their iPods, Internet, or Google, will explain to their parents running the country just how the world is being flattened.

Thomas Friedman

#29. Regular people don't even realize how much artists mean to them. Artists represent a lot to the average person. People listen to music all day on their iPods, so as artists, we become a real fixture in people's lives. As an artist, you can't take it personal. It's like your big brother teasing you.

Nicki Minaj

#30. I got hundreds of emails insulting me, accusing me of being some caveman. I am by no means a Luddite. I have two iPods. I have a cell phone. I have cable TV, HDTV!

Sherman Alexie

#31. I lust after iPods or Mini Coopers not because they're unique, but because they've been so artfully made that I couldn't imagine doing it better myself.

Clive Thompson

#32. Chinese workers are not forced into factories because of our insatiable desire for iPods. They choose to leave their homes in order to earn money, to learn new skills and to see the world.

Leslie T. Chang

#33. So I think things are going to get closer and closer to each other, because the screens will force that to happen. I think there are a lot of movies that people will only see on their computers or their iPods.

Glenn Close

#34. That's one of the things about being married to a couple of musicians, I have got great iPods. That's what I was left with
an iPod each.

Pamela Anderson

#35. We're very good in America at talking about stuff, often stuff to buy. We tend to talk about our iPods. We tend to talk about cars or new fads.

Milton Glaser

#36. But iPods and iPhones are two things we don't get for our kids.

Melinda Gates

#37. Files on iTunes - and thus iPods - are incompatible with everything else. Applications on iPhones may only be sold and uploaded through the iPhone store - giving Apple control over everything people put on to the devices they thought they owned.

Douglas Rushkoff

#38. Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.

Taylor Swift

#39. I think there's something thrilling about going into a movie house and seeing everything on such a huge screen. I think we're in a culture now that is confronted with various sizes of screens, the biggest movie houses and then the smallest iPods.

Glenn Close

#40. I was probably like 13 years old, 14. And I used to walk home doing the beatbox from school. That's how I created it. There was no walkmans back then, no iPods, no CDs. There was just me. Back then there was the boom box.

Doug E. Fresh

#41. Shoulda gone to China. They give away babies like free iPods. They put them in guns and shoot them out at sporting events.

Diablo Cody

#42. When I saw the first video iPod, I thought this could have the same impact VHS/home video had on the movie business.

Bob Iger

#43. You've heard of plug-and-play. This is plug, unplug and play. It's so simple to use, it's unbelievable.

Steve Jobs

#44. Pretty much everyone on my iPod, I'd like to be friends with. But I'd say that the main two that I'd love to get into a conversation with, are Werner Herzog and Graham Hancock.

Finn Jones

#45. I listen to a variety of stuff on my iPod: Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, Public Enemy, Foo Fighters, anything that gets my adrenalin flowing.

Chris Hoy

#46. I guess because deejaying has become my job, I tend to listen to really horrible stuff on my spare time. If you heard my iPod you'd be like, "what the hell?"

Neil Armstrong

#47. The iPod is genius. I have 300.

Karl Lagerfeld

#48. I listen a lot to my own music when I'm in the process of making it. In the car, in the kitchen while making food, on my iPod when I go shopping, etc. I listen to it as much as possible, and if I get tired of listening to it, it's not good enough, and I leave it unreleased.

Hans-Peter Lindstrom

#49. New iPod. It looks like an iPhone but it can't make phone calls. So its really just an iPhone.

Craig Ferguson

#50. The national anthem blows. Are you kidding me? Do any of you have it on your iPod?

Daniel Tosh

#51. When people ask what's on my iPod, it's the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

Jon Schmidt

#52. What isn't on my iPod playlist? I have very eclectic tastes. Jazz. Classic Rock. Hip Hop. Ska. Soul. Electronica.World Music. Funk. Blues. Chamber Music. Reggaeton. Gospel. And a whole lot of Prince. (I am a Minnesota gal through and through.)

Michele Norris

#53. Music is so powerful to me. I had my IPod and headphones, and my sad playlist. I kind of ventured off for just a little bit to get into the scene.

Beverley Mitchell

#54. Some days I'm just flipping through the iPod trying to get pumped, some days I don't want to listen to anything and just focus. From game to game from day to day, whatever people do to motivate themselves, they do. I do all kinds of things.

Troy Polamalu

#55. Do we have Steve Jobs to thank for the iPod and iPod shuffle? iTunes? I think so. He changed the way we hear and think about music ...

John Taylor

#56. I never want a fan to come and hear what they hear on their iPod, its about creating a unqiue and awesome experience.

Hoodie Allen

#57. I prefer reading e-books on a high resolution LCD screen - like the iPod Touch's - although the pixel density could and should be much higher.

Nicholson Baker

#58. I just got a new iPod. It's got 80 gigabytes. Because I like to jog for three weeks at a time and I do not want to hear the same song twice.

Arj Barker

#59. The expectation on the iPod is that HP's version will probably outsell Apple's version relatively quickly.

Rob Enderle

#60. I went to Clive Davis' Grammy party and I nearly spontaneously combusted because everyone on my iPod was there!

Leona Lewis

#61. I think people should consume their music any way they want. If it's more practical for them to listen to it on an iPod or something, that's fine by me.

Tristan Perich

#62. The iPod is a perfect example of Steve [Jobs]' methodology of starting with the user and looking at the entire end-to-end system.

John Sculley

#63. The most common format of music on an iPod is 'stolen.'

Steve Ballmer

#64. I always have my own music on my iPod, especially songs that I am going to record. Besides that, I have lots of others ranging from Chris Brown to Beyonce', Michael Jackson, Rascal Flatts and Adele.

Zendaya

#65. Small objects, like the Walkman first and then the iPod, create bubbles of space around us that enable us to have a metaphysical space that is much bigger than our physical space.

Paola Antonelli

#66. A great product will survive all abuse. Google Glass is a great product. How do I know? Every person I put it on (I did it dozens of times at 500 Startups yesterday) smiles. No other product has done that since the iPod.

Robert Scoble

#67. What is going on with you?" she says, shaking her head and pushing me away. "What's up with all the love and affection? I mean, you of all people, you of the eternal iPod-hoodie combo.

Alyson Noel

#68. I'll take my iPod - though I'm not very good with gadgets to be honest - and that has everything I like.

Andrew Flintoff

#69. I listen to all sorts of things. I get kind of embarrassed with my iPod, because I am a top-40 type of girl; I am not the kind of person to introduce people to new music.

Chrissy Teigen

#70. There are sneakers that cost more than an iPod.

Steve Jobs

#71. The iPod is not a new category. Music is not new. It's not a speculative market. It's a very, very large market. It's been around for thousands of years and will be around as long as humans exist.

Steve Jobs

#72. You know, you keep on innovating, you keep on making better stuff. And if you always want the latest and greatest, then you have to buy a new iPod at least once a year.

Steve Jobs

#73. All I've got on my iPod is every single Queen song and every single Judas Priest song. Queen were an incredible heavy metal band. I saw them on their first ever tour, at Birmingham Town Hall. They just blew me away.

Rob Halford

#74. I think if there was an ISP tax of some sort, we can say to the consumer, 'All music is now available and able to be downloaded and put in your car and put in your iPod and put up your a
if you want and it's $5 on your cable bill.'

Trent Reznor

#75. You can't roll a joint on an iPod, buy vinyl.

Shelby Lynne

#76. If Apple ever lowers the iPod's price and develops Windows software for it, watch out: the invasion of the iPod people will surely begin in earnest.

David Pogue

#77. I'm part of the Ipod generation. I got 10,000 tracks from all over the world.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

#78. If somebody wanted to go and find songs of mine to fill an iPod, that aren't on any records. They could probably find dozens of songs besides the ones that are on records.

Regina Spektor

#79. We have three post-PC devices: the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad, the revolutionary device that defined a whole new categoryit's outstripping the wildest of predictions.

Tim Cook

#80. Technological change is discontinuous. The monks in their scriptoria did not invent the printing press, horse breeders did not invent the motorcar, and the music industry did not invent the iPod or launch iTunes.

Jason Epstein

#81. IPod liberalism [is] where we assume that every single Iranian or Chinese who happens to have and love his iPod will also love liberal democracy.

Evgeny Morozov

#82. Under [Tim] Cook, Apple has a new product line with the Apple Watch, but it hasn't generated the kind of excitement that the iPod, iPhone or iPad did. Still, Cook can't be called a failure. Under his leadership, the company released a larger version of the iPhone to record sales.

Laura Sydell

#83. Snoop is a tour de force! It's one of the smartest and most original books I've come across in a long time. I devoured it and then rushed over to clean up my desk and change my iPod playlist.

Richard Florida

#84. I like listening to music on a Discman, where the CD spins, and the fact that it's weird to listen to something on a Discman when most people have an iPod, even though those have an internal hard drive that's spinning, too.

Alexis Taylor

#85. Everyone's attention span these days is limited to how long it takes to flick the iPod wheel on to the next song.

Mat McNerney

#86. I row for about 40-45 minutes every morning and put in my iPod and it's a huge range. That's when I listen to either things that I just love and know very well and just want to pay attention, it's also where I listen to things that are new that I want to get to know.

Tod Machover

#87. People don't like to read text on computer screens (and reading a lot of text on iPod screens gets very tiring very soon, just about as soon as running out of battery power).

Nicholson Baker

#88. I've bought more music for my Ipod in one year than I bought in the last ten years of my life.

Gloria Estefan

#89. I had an all-Fear of Music iPod, just versions of the 11 songs from the record. No other songs allowed.

Jonathan Lethem

#90. With modern parts atop old ones, the brain is like an iPod built around an eight-track cassette player.

Sharon Begley