Music Storage Quotes

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.

No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.

I grew up I guess you'd say in the cassette era.

Everyone's computer, mobile phone or music-listening device should have a folder in my name with 100 songs.

For myself, I can only say that I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the results of this evening's experiments. Astonished at the wonderful power you have developed, and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record forever.

My wife has them all in a vault... a copy of every album.

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.

If I'm on a train, with headphones, MP3s are great. At home, I prefer CD or vinyl, partly because they sound a little better in a quiet room and partly because they're finite in length and separate things, unlike the endless days and days of music stored on my laptop.

Technically speaking, there is no music whatsoever on a CD. Lots of information, but no music.

I don't specifically sit down to write a Motley Crue song, so for me, that's how it works. The things that sound like they might be Crue, I put aside on my hard drive and keep them in that pile.

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.

When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste.

The iPod is genius. I have 300.

The radio of my youth ... is now a quaint memory replaced by computer hard drives.

I have tons of music stashed.

I've got about three or four rooms of records, and two rooms of instruments.

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

If there is a record I don't have, I haven't heard it yet. My collection is always growing, but I can't really play it anywhere - no promoter is willing to pay for my crates of vinyl to fly with me, so I have a team of people to digitise it all.

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

People often forget this - a vinyl album could only contain a maximum of 20 minutes per side!

CDs sound so much better than MP3s. I'm sure they'll come out with a better format someday.

I still use my iPod all the time.

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.

I believe that vinyl will outlast CDs.

No one's playing records anymore, so find your favorite and frame it, then get rid of the rest - try selling or donating them.