Oren Peli Quotes

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.

MP3's are perfect.

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

I'm an iPod person.

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

I've got an iPod but I don't even use it. It's just that, you know, you've got to like plug it up to the computer. And then you've got to download songs. And put them in your playlist. I'd rather just get the CD and pop it in. I'm cool with the Discman. The Walkman.

I use iTunes for downloading music, but I always decline when prompted to update this or that new version.

Nobody has ever built a reliable peer-to-peer service, where people can really access all the music they want in one location,... Once I got it into my head, I couldn't imagine the media space without one.

I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.

iTunes kind of feels like Sam Goody to me. I don't feel cool when I go there. I'm tired of seeing John Mayer's face pop up.

I like listening to my playlist on the iPod. I don't want radio with commercials.

Right after the keynote in which Steve Jobs introduced the iPod Shuffle, I went backstage with one question in mind: What makes an iPod an iPod? By then - January 11, 2005 - I had staked my own claim to iPod expertise, having written a 'Newsweek' cover story about Apple's transformational music player, and I was writing a book on it.

I hate iPods.

I still use my iPod all the time.

I have about 25,000 songs on my computer and play them mostly on shuffle, which means that the songs I've played the most are the songs that have been on my computer the longest.

It's kind of a miracle to think that a device in your pocket can play pretty much any song that the world has ever created.

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

If you made a record, I'd probably pick out tracks that I like and download that. That's just how it is.

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

I think Sean Parker damaged the music business with Napster.

I think the last album I bought was a very beautiful album called 'Lost Wisdom' by Mount Eerie featuring Julie Doiron, and I bought it direct from Phil Elverum via his website. It's cool you can do that now with the Internet.

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.

I download, like, forty songs a day, I'm a big music collector and a big record collector.

People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.

I've never supported this concept of going after Napster. I think the rock bands who fought this were wrong.