Steven Levy Quotes

Apple was selling $400 iPods with $1 earbuds. They're making a beautiful white object with all the music in the world in it... I'm going to make a beautiful black object that will play it back.

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

If I have an iPod, I'm good.

Gone are the days when you'd have to tune in to a mad illegal radio station late at night to be able to hear the rapper of your choice. That's all changed now. That's all gone out of the window. And I feel like I represent that change. I represent the era of iPods and Shuffle and things like that.

I'm an iPod person.

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 hate iPods.

Apple is a company that understands music.

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

Google's done a super good job on search; Apple's done a great job on the IPod.

My iPod's unbelievable. Seriously. The kids have put most of the music on it, but there's a complete mix of '80s rubbish and current day stuff.

Someone asked me the other day what my favourite record shop was, and I said YouTube.

I left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon after the introduction of the Mac.

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

I don't have an iPod.

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.

One thing most people don't know is that Steve Jobs is an exceptional designer.

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

I don't really do playlists. I don't know how to make a playlist, honestly.

I don't have an iPod! It's never appealed to me, really.

I think Steve Jobs is my idol.

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

I think that we see Steve Jobs as the genius speaker in the mock black turtleneck with the round glasses, sort of beautifully delivering his new product, and I think that for people to understand that he started in a garage.

I've been looking at the iPod- the Apple iPod. One of the interesting things about the iPod, one of the things that people love most about it is not the technology; it's the box it comes in.

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