Steven Levy Quotes

I listen to Radio 4 and put the iPod on shuffle. I like the randomness of, say, the Stones, then something from Nina Simone, Nick Drake or Bob Dylan.

I love to offer a playlist to the world, almost like being a deejay.

One of my favorite things to do is sit around and listen to old records... You're forced to listen to the whole thing. And it's so cool digging through the bins trying to find them. I get giddy about records.

I like loud music. I like music that fills my ears. I'm just going to pull out my iPod and see what we got here. We're always interested in new bands because we have a retail store in northern California. I think it's got to be happy.

I make playlists on my iPod like nobody's business!

People send me CDs all the time because I love music. It's great. I listen to them in my dressing room or in my car.

I was thinking about how a playlist is really so inadequate as opposed to a mixtape because it takes seventeen days to really make a mixtape with a homemade cover that you like and that you'd give away.

I consume music the way other people consume movies.

I am such a music fiend. I go after so many different types of music. I'm on iTunes constantly just buying new music!

I have endless playlists on my iPod so will throw on, say, Bruce Springsteen or The Smiths, depending on what kind of day I'm going to have.

You know I used to listen to music a lot more.

I wish I had time to listen to music more.

I have a whole iPod full of exceptionally bad music, truly awful stuff including a disproportionate number of one hit wonders from the early '80s and lots of hair bands. I find it utterly impossible to love a song until I know every single word, so listening to live music or new bands is pretty much out.

I go for a nice walk in my neighborhood and search for vinyl, old jazz, classics. Then I go home and listen to them.

I don't really listen to my old music.

This is how much of a music geek I am: if I have a day with nothing to do, one of my favourite things is to just sit at my computer and make playlists of pretty much anything.

A playlist can be very versatile, almost like a programming language.

Hoover's Music Store in Springfield, Missouri - I would listen to records there for hours.

If you want to hear good music, good music will always be found.

My cousin used to make fun of me for liking stuff like C+C Music Factory. I didn't have any tapes; I just liked their song on the radio. We liked that because that was what we had access to.

There are so many artists, so many songs, so many producers, that it's hard to keep track of whose music is worthwhile.

I listen to country music. I listen to jazz. I listen to R&B. I listen to Jimi Hendrix a lot.

I have a lot of artists who I just love to hear their music, and I'm a fan of them.

Human curation allows you to have the emotion and feel music, because it is a very emotional thing. It makes you feel happy; it helps you when you are feeling sad, gets you pumped up, calms you down.

My dad is huge on music, so he always made tapes from his friends. That's how I got into music.