Ipods Quotes - Page 3

• The iPod made music mobile, but today, how many devices do you need to walk around with? You want it on just one. And inevitably that's going to be the phone.

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

  Phones, Needs, Want

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• Frankly, I didn't know how I would react to Apple's over-hyped MP3 player until I used one. Now I would have a hard time parting with it: Consider me converted.

  Paul Thurrott

  Hard Times, Player, Mp3

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• The biggest surprise watching video on the tiny, 2.5-inch screen (320 by 240 pixels) is completely immersive. Three unexpected factors are at work. First, the picture itself is sharp and vivid, with crisp action that never smears the screen is noticeably brighter than on previous iPods. Second, because the audio is piped directly into your ear sockets, it has much higher fidelity and presence than most peoples TV sets. Finally, remember that a 2.5-inch screen a foot from your face fills as much of your vision as a much larger screen thats across the room.

  David Pogue

  Feet, Vision, Three

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• 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

  Moving, Thinking, Phones

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• I've made my best personal investments when I've been a user of the product. Like Apple. The epiphany for me came when I purchased my fifth iPod and I hadn't unwrapped my fourth. It was still in the plastic case.

  Mary Meeker

  Apples, Investment, Epiphany

  "The Indomitable Mary Meeker". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. September 21, 2012.

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• 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

  Men, Numbers, Issues

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• I never go anywhere without my iPod.

  Robert Carlyle

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you look at the market cap increase in Apple since it created the iPod versus what's happened to the music industry, you have to say Apple got the better part of that deal.

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

  Apples, Looks, Increase

  "Warner Music Group CEO: Steve Jobs Got the Best of Us" by Paul Bond, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 31, 2012.

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• I have an iPod, but I do still love CDs. There's something nice and tangible about a CD. I'm a mixture of old and new - I love my sewing machine, but I've also embraced new technology. The iPad is what did it for me - it's extraordinary.

  Twiggy

  Nice, Technology, Cds

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• 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

  Past, Superhero, Today

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• For me, the creative process for me always starts in a personal place. I step away from my iPod or any records or CDs.

  Miguel

  Cds, Creative, Records

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• You should've gone to China, you know, 'cause I hear they give away babies like free iPods. You know, they pretty much just put them in those t-shirt guns and shoot them out at sporting events.

  Ellen Page

  Baby, Gun, Should Have

  "Fictional character: Juno MacGuff". "Juno", www.imdb.com. September 1, 2007.

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• Without Mona, Hanna felt like a great outfit without matching accessories, a screw-driver that was all orange juice and no vodka, and an iPod without headphones. She just felt wrong.

  Sara Shepard

  Orange Juice, Accessories, Matching

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• 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

  Book, Phones, Empty Rooms

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• 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

  Mean, People, Pushing

  Alyson Noel (2013). “The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland”, p.125, Pan Macmillan

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• If I knew I was going to die at a specific moment in the future, it would be nice to be able to control what song I was listening to; this is why I always bring my iPod on airplanes.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Music, Song, Nice

  Chuck Klosterman (2006). “Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Baby, Gun, Giving

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• I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools (in America) that I just stopped going. The sense that you need to learn just isn't there. If you ask the kids what they want or need, they will say an iPod or some sneakers. In South Africa, they don't ask for money or toys. They ask for uniforms so they can go to school.

  Oprah Winfrey

  School, Kids, Sneakers

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• The new Zune may not be an iPod killer, but it does offer a clean interface, great industrial design, HD radio, and a subscription model for music, making it significantly less expensive for big users.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Design, Doe, May

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• 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

  Iphone, Apples, People

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• On overnight flights, I have trained myself to get to sleep almost instantly after takeoff. I always listen to the same audiobook on my iPod so my brain knows, regardless of time zone, that that voice means it's time for bed.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Mean, Sleep, Voice

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• I have so many indie bands on my iPod. What I don't really understand is the attitude that if a band is unknown, they're good, and if they get fans, then you move on to the next band.

  Taylor Swift

  Attitude, Moving, Fans

  "The Many Insecurities of Taylor Swift". Interview by Susan Dominus, www.nytimes.com. November 16, 2012.

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• 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

  Fans, Looks, Genres Of Music

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• I carry my iPod everywhere. My favorite group is the John Butler Trio, an Australian jam band. The lead singer and guitarist writes amazing lyrics.

  Hope Solo

  Writing, Groups, Jam

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• I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, "If wet, in the library." Who could say that this is bad?

  Terry Pratchett

  Garden, Glasses, Hands

  "I'll die before the endgame, says Terry Pratchett in call for law to allow assisted suicides in UK", www.dailymail.co.uk. August 3, 2009.

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