Top 91 Quotes About Stereo
#1. My big hobby is photography. I collect stereo photographs from the 19th century.
Brian May
#2. Film has lost something in the translation to high tech. It's become so super-real. It's with digital this and stereo that, and everything's like a CD.
Nicolas Cage
#3. We come from a generation of people who need their TV or stereo playing all the time. These people so scared of silence. These soundaholics, these quietophobics.
Chuck Palahniuk
#5. Another Holy Grail for some collectors is Bob Dylan's The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, the 1963 pressing that has four songs that were deleted from subsequent pressings, known to fetch up to $35,000 in stereo and $16,500 in mono in excellent condition. 1970s
Anonymous
#6. You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buy s a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound. You don't win with a lot of treble.
Chuck Palahniuk
#7. SITTING WITH MY UNNEUTERED BULL MASTIFF RUFUS WATCHING 2 FAST 2 FURIOUS WITH STEREO ERECTIONS.
Vince McMahon
#8. Like the song "Stereo", to me that's like, kind of hip-hop in that slacker way. There's some slackerisms mixed in with that stuff, but it wasn't really conscious, I guess. When things would get more typical rock'n'roll that was my fallback to go to those kind of lyrics instead of the alternatives.
Stephen Malkmus
#10. As for the tank, not only is it unAmerican and probably subversive to eat without watching stereo but also the racket from it would interfere even with a directional mike aimed at us from a distance . . .
Robert A. Heinlein
#11. You could hear the stereo from the downstairs neighbors just fine. They were playing Metallica. Playing isn't really the right verb for Metallica, I guess. Grinding, maybe. Extruding.
Rick Riordan
#12. I don't listen to music throughout the day very often. I don't own a record player. I don't really have a stereo system. Most of the music I listen to these days is on the web or on MySpace pages, stuff like that.
Panda Bear
#13. You really saw some?" Liz said an hour later. Sure, we had the stereo blaring and the shower running, but Liz still whispered, "They really ... exist?"
"Liz," I whispered back, "they're not unicorns."
"No," Bex said flatly, "they're boys. And they're ... good.
Ally Carter
#14. [He] put a tape on the car stereo and when I heard Neil Young singing, I shouted for him to turn it off, saying I was allergic to that whiny goddamn bastard.
Nadia Bozak
#15. These Burbclaves! These citystates!
So small, so insecure, that just about everything, like not mowing your
lawn, or playing your stereo too loud, becomes a national security issue.
Neal Stephenson
#16. It seemed a vehicle was well and truly dead once the stereo had melted.
Maggie Stiefvater
#17. It was astounding how a woman, when she struck marital gold, procured not just a new wardrobe and new friends but a new voice straight out of a 1930s gramophone (brittle, mono-stereo) and a vocabulary that reliably included laze, season, and terribly sorry.
Marisha Pessl
#18. Memories lurk like dustballs in the backs of drawers. The stereo is a special model that plays only music fraught with poignant associations.
Jay McInerney
#19. Your head is a stereo input. The density and cartilage of your ears embed certain extra characteristics into stereo sound sources. Your brain decodes that and gives you sound plus conscious directions.
Chris Milk
#20. It was a hot summer night, and I had the soundtrack to Disney's The Lion King blasting on my stereo. Tears actually began streaming down my face as I drove past the building. Here I was, the grown-up version of that wide-eyed eight-year-old at Disneyland. I had finally arrived. I was an Imagineer.
Randy Pausch
#21. I don't write my music for Sony. I write it for the people who are screaming down
the road crying to a full-blast stereo.
Jeff Buckley
#22. One son appears in stereo - a transistor in one ear and the phone in the other..
Erma Bombeck
#23. My first experience with music was my father, he was a stereo buff and he built his own little Hi-Fi center with recorders and everything and I listened to a lot of jazz, which gave me a sensibility for melody.
Ronnie Montrose
#24. Dead Prez is playing on the car's stereo, telling me that it's bigger than Hip-Hop, but I beg to differ.
Kris Kidd
#25. I listen to KCRW in the car and Pandora radio, which I stream through the stereo from my iPhone. I've been listening to everything from Caribou to Conway Twitty. If I'm going on a longer car ride, I'll download some podcasts.
Sam Trammell
#26. All the Ping-Pong and pool tables, on-site chefs, Nerf hoops, and stereo systems cannot make up for the truth that some places work people like dogs.
Ken Wilber
#27. Oh, I should probably set a few ground rules before we do this."
"Oh?" I turn at the waist and look at him curiously. "What kind of ground rules?"
He smiles.
"Well, number one: my car, my stereo; I'm sure I don't need to elaborate on that.
J.A. Redmerski
#28. Davis is naturally a sweet-natured person.He's just been hanging around Nick and Gavin too long.Its a wonder they don't have him stealing candy from babies, or blasting rap music out of his car stereo in front of the retirement home.
Jennifer Echols
#29. The operas I listen to aren't in English, and I want to listen to my opera after I'm done with it. I want to have the desire to play it on the stereo. To me, the language is part of the mystery.
Rufus Wainwright
#30. When he feels the world is closing in, he turns his stereo way up high. He just spends his life, living in a rock and roll fantasy.
Ray Davies
#31. I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.
Naomi Shihab Nye
#32. It's the place you would go if you wanted to buy a stereo system for under thirty-five dollars and didn't care if it sounded like the band was playing in a mailbox under water in a distant lake.
Bill Bryson
#33. I'm a big vinyl listener, I'm a big audiophile. I have a really nice stereo set up at home with a hi-fi and really nice turntable and it's a big deal to me to listen to music in it's purest form like that.
Butch Walker
#34. It was one of those moments that would have had dramatic music if my life were a movie, but instead I got a radio jingle for some kind of submarine sandwich place blaring over the store's ambient stereo. The movie ofmy life must be really low-budget.
Jim Butcher
#35. From the stereo came music that Alice didn't recognize, but it wasn't there to be listened to, just to complete a perfect scenario; there was nothing casual about it.
Paolo Giordano
#36. When you listen to stereo on your home system, your both ears hear both speakers. Turn on the left speaker sometime and notice you're hearing it also in your right ear.
Woody Norris
#37. Got any mood music?"
"If you press Play on the stereo you're going to hear Miley Cyrus."
"I don't know who that is."
"Count your blessings.
Tere Michaels
#38. If I ever totally fell for Ed, I realized, I'd have to be comfortable with the idea of becoming an audiophile-phile--someone who's in love with someone who's in love with stereo equipment.
Amy Borkowsky
#39. I wanted to play drums, and I got a set when I was 14 and just started to play in the house, to the stereo. I liked Ringo Starr, of course. And Sandy Nelson. I had his record, 'Let There Be Drums,' and I'd play along with it.
Tipper Gore
#40. I never got a stereo system until about 1969. It was only when I went to America in '68 and listened to FM radio; I really thought, 'Wow, there's something in this.'
Justin Hayward
#41. I also mixed David Bowie's Young Americans album in 5.1 earlier this year and it will be available very soon. Even the original stereo mixes have been re-mastered and sound amazingly good, better than ever, in fact!
Tony Visconti
#42. This was a very typical time. I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo, you know, and that's what I had.
Steve Jobs
#44. Every now and then I feel like I am only receiving one track of a stereo recording, and this was one such time. I had no idea what - well, to be honest, I didn't even have an idea what to have an idea about.
Jeff Lindsay
#45. There's always pain behind the fame. Fame which I never asked for. Being in the spotlight has its fair share of disadvantages. I leaned back and fixed my eyes on the stereo and this time his hands were shivering. I wondered what would happen if Tinie Tempah boarded his taxi. He would die!
S.A. David
#46. We don't have a lot of neighbors so we can blast the stereo.
Lita Ford
#47. Only a real asshole takes liberties with someone else's car stereo. That's serious.
Sarah Dessen
#48. Introverts feel "just right" with less stimulation, as when they sip wine with a close friend, solve a crossword puzzle, or read a book. Extroverts enjoy the extra bang that comes from activities like meeting new people, skiing slippery slopes, and cranking up the stereo.
Susan Cain
#49. I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.
Sam Raimi
#50. The Gasman leaned over and examined the tangled pile of stereo guts spread out on the kitchen table. "It looks like a robot came in here and threw up," he observed
James Patterson
#51. I pop a cassette into the Buick's stereo. It's the Ramones. I turn the volume up high and roll down the windows. The highway air tastes of fumes, but it still feels goddamn good to breathe
Hank Moody
#52. I had been playing Shostakovich on the stereo, but without conviction.
John Le Carre
#53. I like to think of my house as nothing more than a glorified console for my television; the ultimate stereo cabinet.
Drew Carey
#54. I cranked the volume on the stereo and sang at the top of my lungs to an old Britney Spears song, my possession and enjoyment of which, I hoped, would remain a secret between me and my car.
Heather Hildenbrand
#55. My first car, I got it in an auction at my temple. It was an '86 Volvo that I got for 500 bucks, and then wound up throwing $10,000 into the stereo system and put TVs in the foot rests. It was the most ridiculous Volvo you'd ever seen, but I had never had money before and I was out of my mind.
Shia Labeouf
#56. I want to make hand-held music, undiminished by the need to make everybody in the world listen at once. The goal is to ride into the sunset, stereo blasting, and all of what's got you worried will disappear in the rear view mirror!
Dave Sitek
#57. Rejection hurts so much because we take it as a damning judgement passed not merely on our physical appeal but on our entire selves, and by extension (at this stage we're crying into our pillow, as something by Bach or Leonard Cohen plays on the stereo) on our very right to exist. 2.
Alain De Botton
#58. So, it's not every patient that I see, but I'd say a good 70% to 80% of the patients when they go to bed it's like a stereo is playing at an 11 or 12 and they can't turn it down, at all. So it makes it very hard for their body to down regulate to be able to go to bed at night.
Shelby Harris
#59. Another song from her playlist came over the stereo, You Could be Happy by Snow Patrol and another, Embrace by Goldroom.
Ella Dominguez
#60. If something doesn't work in my house - TV, phone, stereo, anything - I just call my dad, and he knows the answer.
Kimberley Nixon
#61. Other CEOs were shown fly-fishing in Scottish rivers or piloting their own Learjets into Helsinki. Mr. Hosokawa was photographed at home in the leather chair he sat in when he listened, a Nansei EX-12 stereo system behind him.
Ann Patchett
#62. I wasn't living on the edge, I had gone over it. Insanity was now the norm and I had to keep feeding it in order to maintain the new domain I had created for myself. I had one eye on the road and one on the rear view mirror when I wasn't pre-occupied with my beer, cigarettes or car stereo.
Steven C. Smith
#63. When I received my first paycheck from my now known day job, I spent it on a period Craftsman chair and a Frank Lloyd Wright-wannabe lamp. With my second paycheck, I bought a stereo.
Brad Pitt
#64. Sipping Bailey's Cream by the stereo, trying to find relief on the radio. I'm suppressing the tears.
Mariah Carey
#65. Headphone aren't big enough these days. Why not just throw a couple of stereo speakers in a full face motorcycle helmet.
Dov Davidoff
#66. He wished he were home in Charleston, listening to the Dave Brubeck Quartet on the stereo and reading Bruce Catton.
Dan Simmons
#67. Sometimes in films it's nice to have violins on either side, rather than on one side, so you've got more of a stereo picture with the violins. Sometimes it's good to have the basses in the middle.
Anne Dudley
#68. I wasn't one to go out and buy a new car and stereo system and expensive clothes. My mom helped keep me grounded.
Christina Applegate
#69. I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you plan the stereo at max volume, it's almost like the other people can't see into your vehicle. It tints your windows, somehow.
Chuck Klosterman
#70. An action film can have too much action; picture an equaliser on a stereo, with all the knobs pegged at 10. It becomes a cacophony and is, ultimately, quite boring.
Shane Black
#71. Music helps set a romantic mood. Imagine her surprise when you say, "We don't need a stereo - I have an accordion."
Martin Mull
#72. This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#73. Not to mention central air-conditioning, an inn-wide stereo system, plasma TVs and iPod docking stations, and L'Occitane toiletries.
Elin Hilderbrand
#74. The tires bore down, kicking up dust like an Arabian stampede. Elizabeth flipped off the car stereo. Out of the corner of my eye, I could tell that she was studying my profile. I wondered what she saw, and my heart started fluttering.
Harlan Coben
#75. Most people have stereo vision, so why belittle that very, very important element of our existence?
Martin Scorsese
#76. It was summer and moonlight and we had lemonade to drink, and we held the cold glasses in our hands, and Dad read the stereo-newspapers inserted into the special hat you put on your head and which turned the microscopic page in front of the magnifying lens if you blinked three times in succession.
Ray Bradbury
#77. It seemed as if humans had lost the ability to make their own fun. The more they were gifted with inventions, the less they needed one another. They didn't sing or play the fiddle at the hearth; they turned on the stereo. They didn't tell stories on the porch; they watched television.
Laura Whitcomb
#78. Why all these years have I been agreeably turning down the stereo every time the phone rings?
Sara Genn
#79. Here's something I probably shouldn't be saying: I never listen to my soundtrack albums because I can't stand it. It's just stereo. When I write, I write in surround. My life is in surround.
Hans Zimmer
#80. From the slope of Haleakala, the Old Broad watched the activity in the channel with a two-hundred-power celestial telescope and a pair of "big eyes" binoculars that looked like stereo bazookas on precision mounts that were anchored into a ton of concrete.
Christopher Moore
#81. The witches ignored her, turning up the stereo. She cringed when yet another Bieber song pumped away. Great, she'd been captured by fucking Beliebers.
They planned to sell her at auction? When "Beauty and a Beat" played for the fifth time, Chloe decided she was ready for the block.
Kresley Cole
#82. Growing up, there was always music around, whether across the street, or on the next-door neighbor's stereo. So, as in life, music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion. Music is amazing.
Tyler Perry
#83. I love 5.1. Sometimes you can't squeeze everything in comfortably into a stereo picture. There is a lot more space in a 5.1 environment.
Peter Gabriel
#84. They solved the problem of coexistence through the use of individual stereo headphones.
William Blake
#85. Whatever life throws at me, I'll take with a smile upon my face and Nirvana's 'Bleach' on the stereo.
Mark R. Faulkner
#86. For live you need a microphone for the snare and the high hat, the kick drum, a nice stereo overhead and one for the toms - you can get away with using four mikes.
Chad Smith
#87. America ... Do not touch my TV, my DVD, my stereo, my dual-deck VCR. Do not touch my old school, my new school, my slow jams, my party jams, my happy rap, and you better not touch ... My James Brown.
Bernie Mac
#88. I wired my gas pedal to my stereo, so now when I crank up the volume the car accelerates.
Jarod Kintz
#89. The woman led us into a living room. A decent-sized space. Expensive furniture and rugs. A big TV. No stereo, no books. It all looked a bit halfhearted. Like somebody had spent twenty minutes with a catalog and ten thousand dollars.
Lee Child
#90. I'm forever near a stereo saying, 'What the fuck is this garbage?' And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Nick Cave
#91. I was hoping we could just listen to Jimmy Eat World and forget we ever grew up.
Crystal Woods
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