Portable Music Quotes

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.

I love the guitar for its harmony; it is my constant companion in all my travels.

My mom played the recorder. But not having electricity, we had minimal exposure to music. As I got a little older, we had Walkmans and things that were battery-powered, but it would have been nice to be growing up in the iPod era. A tape only has six songs on a side.

I'm an iPod person.

When I was growing up there was a product made by Sony called the Sony Walkman - a rage, everyone had to have one. Well, you don't hear about the Walkman anymore.

When I was coming up, there was only one way to listen to music, and that was on a Walkman.

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

I love listening to music on holiday, and back in the old days, I used to travel with cassette tapes and a boombox.

I was always kind of against streaming, but I've been traveling so much, and I usually carry a huge hard drive of digital music with me, but I haven't had time to deal with it, so I've been doing streaming. And I had this incredible breakthrough of weightlessness where I've really been loving streaming music.

Many of us writers tour like a literary Bachman Turner Overdrive. We ain't pretty, but we're on the road. Many of us wish we were rock stars anyway. For my part, I live in my iPod. The musicians there are my constant companions on the road.

I run around so much that I finally reasoned that composing is the one musical endeavour which you can do anywhere, anytime.

I am deeply devoted to the 27,000 songs I can take anywhere on my iPod Classic as well as the exquisitely engineered MacBook Air on which I typed this column.

I would ditch school if my CD was scratched up or I couldn't get batteries. I wasn't trying to get on the bus and not be listening to music.

Music is an essential part of my life and I'm completely lost without a good album to listen to or my iPod in my pocket!

Everywhere I go, I have my little Steinberger, and I like it very well.

I use iPod all the time, almost every day. It's great.

Miniaturization of electronics started by NASA's push became an entire consumer products industry. Now we're carrying the complete works of Beethoven on a lapel pin listening to it in headphones.

The invention of the iPod changes how you use music. Suddenly you have music everywhere.

I always take an iPod and iPod speakers so that when you're in the hotel room you can have it on, or when you're at the beach you can put it on quietly. Music can really set the tone for your holiday.

My suitcase must absolutely contain my iPod.

I like the aspect of technology. For me to spin the way I do, I would have to carry five crates of records with me everywhere I go, which in this day and age would be like two hundred extra dollars in baggage fees. All I need now is a hard drive and a computer and I can rock anywhere in the world.

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.

I still use my iPod all the time.

My first transistor radio was the heart of my gadget love today. It fit in my hand and brought me a world of music 24 / 7.

I hate iPods.