Headphones Quotes:

I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.

- Brian Eno

topic: Headphones, Listening To Music

You're using your headphones to drown out your mind

- Regina Spektor

topic: Mind, Headphones

Strangely, the thing I listen to 75% of the time, when I'm exercising with my headphones on is English Tudor/Elizabethan music, so music from about 1450 to the early 1600's.

- Tod Machover

topic: Exercise, Tudors, Headphones, Elizabethan

When I was a kid I just had headphones on all the time, and it changed the way I see things and the way I interpret things.

- Matt Nathanson

source: "Singer-Songwriter Matt Nathanson: On feeling vulnerable, staying present, and not being terrified". Interview with Mary Bruce, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. October 26, 2015.

topic: Kids, Way, Headphones

I keep hearing in my head "you are the Messiah, you are the Messiah." I think there's something wrong with my headphones.

- Russell Brand

source: BBC Radio 2 Show, June 30, 2007.

topic: Thinking, Hearing, Headphones

My favorite thing to do is put my headphones on and cruise around the old neighborhoods.

- Mark Duplass

source: "We talked to director-actor duo Jay and Mark Duplass about their many, many film and TV projects". Interview with Jillian Anthony, www.timeout.com. October 5, 2016.

topic: Old Neighborhood, Favorites Things, My Favorite, Headphones

I make my music at night when there's no noise... Just me, my headphones and the silence. But I'm always making music in my head. It's like a non-stop radio!

- Marilou

topic: Night, Silence, Radio, Headphones, Non Stop

I like to get in my own world. When I'm getting ready for a meet, I always have headphones on, listening to rap music to get myself fired up

- Michael Phelps

topic: Sports, Rap, Listening, My Own World, Fired Up

I think Blank Generation holds up pretty well. You listen to that with headphones and there's a lot going on there with the guitars- it's the product of a lot of fighting.

- Robert Quine

topic: Fighting, Thinking, Guitar, Headphones

Take noise-cancelling headphones, a good book, and wear comfy clothes.

- Greg Rutherford

source: Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

topic: Book, Clothes, Noise, Headphones

Music is so powerful to me. I had my IPod and headphones, and my sad playlist. I kind of ventured off for just a little bit to get into the scene.

- Beverley Mitchell

topic: Powerful, Ipods, Littles, Headphones

I’ve come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more confident, and more beautiful individuals than someone making the solitary drudge to work without acknowledging their own interests and power.

- Jason Mraz

topic: Music, Beautiful, Confidence, Headphones

I actually bought a travel guitar, and that guitar is really cool. You can actually fold the guitar, and you can plug headphones into it, but it's acoustic, or semi-acoustic.

- Daniel Ek

source: "Spotify CEO Daniel Ek Talks Royalties, Social and The Future". Interview with Eliot Van Buskirk, evolver.fm. February 10, 2012.

topic: Guitar, Acoustics, Really Cool, Plugs, Headphones

In my headphones, I led a life of romance and incident and intrigue, none of which had anything to do with the world outside my Walkman.

- Rob Sheffield

source: Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.50, Crown Archetype

topic: Romance, World, Incidents, Headphones

When you do an animated movie - at least the ones that I've been a part of - you never see any of the other actors. It's all done separately with headphones in a voice booth.

- Steve Carell

topic: Voice, Done, Actors, Headphones, Animated Movies

They solved the problem of coexistence through the use of individual stereo headphones.

- Stephen Billias

topic: Use, Problem, Individual, Coexistence, Headphones

I don't talk to media or anyone before games. I just put my headphones on, turn up some hip-hop, and get in the zone.

- Kris Humphries

topic: Media, Games, Hip Hop, Headphones

When I was growing up, I would listen to a different album almost every night. I would do the full album experience before I went to bed and that's how I would discover a lot of music. I would kind of go into another world with my headphones on.

- Mark Stoermer

topic: Growing Up, Night, Bed, Headphones

When I fly, I never check my bags. I bring a carry-on, an eye pillow, noise-canceling headphones, a big pillow and a blanket.

- Nina Dobrev

topic: Eye, Bags, Noise, Headphones

[Sometimes] I sit in front of my [gaming] console with my headphones on and I play. I love that. It's a nice form of escapism.

- Idris Elba

source: "Idris Elba Isn’t Interested In Awards, He Just Wants To Keep On Working". Interview with Leigh Blickley and Jon Strauss, on.mtv.com. December 4, 2015.

topic: Nice, Play, Sometimes, Headphones

Before music videos first came out, you’d listen to a song with headphones on, sitting in a beanbag chair with your eyes closed, and you’d come up with your own visions, these things that came from within. Then all of a sudden, sometimes even the very first time you heard a song, it was with these visual images attached, and it robbed you of any form of self-expression.

- Eddie Vedder

topic: Song, Eye, Expression, Visual Images, Headphones

As a teenager, I would tell the teacher I was sick just so I could lie down in the nurse's office and listen to my headphones, thinking about how that day may be the best day ever, but I'm only capable of acknowledging that from a sickbed, lost in my own world.

- Wesley Eisold

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Teacher, Teenager, Lying, My Own World, Headphones

Thank you... fat dude with giant headphones on the subway, for looking like what would've happened if Jabba the Hutt mated with Princess Leia.

- Jimmy Fallon

topic: Princess, Giants, Subway, Leia, Headphones

When I'm on set, I do whatever I can to find my focus. One thing that stays pretty consistent for all my jobs is, I listen to a lot of music while I'm working. Because when there's all this stuff going on, for me to be able to put on headphones and listen to music helps me keep my focus,. A big part of creating a character for me is finding the general palette for what kind of music I'm going to be listening to.

- Joseph Gordon-Levitt

topic: Jobs, Character, Creating, Headphones

Most people walk around with headphones on. They're barely encountering or dealing with their fellow person, or if they're in a car they're in this kind of cocoon, stuck in suburban rush hour traffic or something.

- DJ Spooky

source: Source: bigthink.com

topic: People, Car, Cocoons, Rush Hour, Headphones

What drives me is makin hits and keepin tha fans happy n wantin more. I can't stay put for long so I need to be workin and crankin out hits and projects. Touring. Music. TV. Films. Headphones. Football leagues. That's what keeps it movin. U aint gotta get ready when you stay ready.

- Snoop Dogg

topic: Football, League, Long, Headphones

I'd have to say that Kenny White has earned a place among my favorite singer/songwritersand particularly, lyricists. As we say in the trade “he goes deep.” A true wordsmith AND musician who reveals a fine sense of humor, as well. Put on your headphones and listen carefully.

- David Crosby

topic: White, Musician, Singers, Favorite Singer, Headphones

Besides, if I wanted to hear people speaking wall-to-wall French, all I had to do was remove my headphones and participate in what is known as ‘real life,’ a concept as uninviting as a shampoo cocktail.

- David Sedaris

source: David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

topic: Wall, Real, People, Headphones

I used to play my records aloud until one night my mother was like, "This is too loud. I'm not having it," and so I put on headphones. But the headphones didn't stretch all the way to my bed from the record player, so I had to sleep on the floor in order to hear the records. I slept on the floor right next to the record player until I was probably 19 years old.

- Lauryn Hill

source: "Queen of Hip Hop". American Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 2000.

topic: Mother, Sleep, Player, Headphones, Record Players

Whether I was dancing around the house with headphones on or on stage with the Spice Girls... I learned firsthand that dancing was the key to shedding off the pounds and keeping them off.

- Melanie Brown

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Girl, Keys, Dancing, Spice Girls, Headphones

I love all of these new products that are coming out, things like headphones with cute, catchy names. There is also so much going on with the marketing of fashion. And then, I still love the classic stuff, like great dresses and wonderful photography.

- Stephanie Seymour

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Cute, Photography, Fashion, Headphones, New Products

Headphone aren't big enough these days. Why not just throw a couple of stereo speakers in a full face motorcycle helmet.

- Dov Davidoff

topic: Couple, Motorcycle, Why Not, Headphones

Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-Aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception. There were times I stayed in my room for days on end with headphones on, if only so that I would not have to listen to my mother cry. There were the weeks that my father worked round-the-clock shifts, so that he wouldn't have to come home to a house that felt too big for us.

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Mother, Father, Grief, Band Aid, Headphones

My breathing begins to slow. The tension in my muscles starts to relax. Then, a click in the headphones. A slow breath of air. I open my eyes to bright moonlight. And Hannah, with warmth. Thank you.

- Jay Asher

source: Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.144, Penguin

topic: Eye, Breathing, Air, Headphones

I don't like being in public with headphones on. I don't know how people can do it. It seems like you're so cut off from your environment. I feel like I'd get hit by a car.

- Jeff Tweedy

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Cutting, People, Car, Headphones

I'm the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It's a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don't like - and the fact that it's not reversible.

- J. Cole

topic: Kids, Cities, Manhattan, Headphones

We are the outcasts, we are the ones that are different, we are the ones that never got along with anyone else, we are the ones that went back to our rooms and put on our headphones and listened to those records that made us happy

- Bert McCracken

topic: Different, Records, Rooms, Headphones

A kid that picks up a record, he doesn't need to know anything other than the music and have it in his or her headphones. They're getting ideas directly, it's like someone whispering in their ear. That's such a personal way to receive information.

- Conor Oberst

source: "Desaparecidos' Conor Oberst: We're perfectly prepared for people to hate what we're saying". Interview with Jessica Goodman, ew.com. July 7, 2015.

topic: Kids, Ideas, Needs, Headphones

I'm a big fan of working out on my own. I put my headphones on and I'm pretty good at self-motivating. At the end of the day, I enjoy it. Once I'm there and once I get going, I tend to love it, and I feel good.

- Chris Evans

topic: Self, Work Out, Feel Good, Headphones

In the Ridley Scott film 'The Martian' you can do that [virtually driving car]. I have lifted off in the space craft from the surface of Mars, walked in space and looked down into deep space and got terrified, with the headphones and the goggles.

- Martin Sorrell

source: Source: www.formula1.com

topic: Space, Car, Goggles, Martians, Deep Space

I just remember standing there, singing with the headphones on and the strings playing, just how wonderful that felt. But we so rarely got to go out and do it. Obviously, we don't carry a 70-80-piece orchestra with us when we do shows.

- Ricky Skaggs

topic: Singing, Orchestra, Pieces, Headphones

By the time I was a senior in high school, I was constantly with my headphones, just making music all the time. People were calling me a "musician", and I found that so weird.

- Nicolas Jaar

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Senior, School, People, Headphones, High School Senior

A hip-looking teen watches an elderly woman hobble across the street on a walker. "Grammy's here!" he shouts. He puts some MacAttack Mac&Cheese in the microwave and dons headphones and takes out a video game so he won't be bored during the forty seconds it takes his lunch to cook. A truck comes around the corner and hits Grammy, sending her flying over the roof into the backyard, where luckily she lands on a trampoline. Unluckily, she bounces back over the roof, into the front yard, landing on a rosebush.

- George Saunders

topic: Elderly, Land, Games, Trampolines, Headphones

If I give a little hint or clue as to where my voice could be going, that would [be] read. Because people can listen closely, you know, you can sit with headphones or you just concentrate on music, you can just hear, sometimes, the desires of the voice itself.

- Will Oldham

source: Source: www.thewire.co.uk

topic: Voice, People, Giving, Headphones

Back in my time, and I sound old now, it was black and white boots and that was it. Now you've got snoods, people wearing headphones when they're doing interviews, which I find disrespectful. Pink boots, green boots, you name it, even tights. They'll be wearing skirts next.

- Paul Ince

source: "Notts County's Paul Ince slams modern football trends". "Late Kick Off Midlands" with Dan Walker, news.bbc.co.uk. Februry 28, 2011.

topic: Football, Black And White, Names, Headphones

My mom is Christian, and she wouldn't let us listen to rock music. So me and my brother, we had this tape player with head phones, and we locked ouselves in the pantry. We were fighting over the headphones, sitting in the dark pantry listening to Metallica.

- Joel Madden

topic: Christian, Mom, Brother, Pantry, Headphones

At work, conversation increases productivity. And yet people go into work, put on their headphones. In one interview, somebody called it - they become pilots in their own cockpits.

- Judy Woodruff

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: People, Pilots, Interviews, Cockpit, Headphones

Where once such devices were relegated to appropriate times, now they've become necessities. The other day I watched a kid come off the school bus listening to music on his headphones, oblivious to the traffic zooming past him. And I can't even begin to count the times I've thought pet owners were talking to their dogs while taking them for a walk when, in reality, they were blabbing on their cell phones. It's a different level of use than we've seen in the past, ... It's becoming more of a full-day listening experience as opposed to just when you're jogging.

- Robert Novak

topic: Dog, School, Kids, Oblivious, School Bus

Everything that enters our field of perception means something, large or small. Everything speaks to us, if we will take off our headphones and hear a different sound track. Everything corresponds. We travel better in the forest of symbols when we are open and available to all the forms of meaning that are watching†and waiting for us.

- Robert Moss

source: Robert Moss (2009). “The Three "Only" Things (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.144, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Mean, Track, Waiting, Headphones

I play the piano. I bought an upright piano that is actually electric, so I can practice my scales with headphones on and not make my neighbours' lives hell!

- Eva Green

topic: Practice, Play, Piano, Headphones

I first heard music while in the womb. My mom tells me she played Tubular Bells with the headphones against her stomach all the time. A bit disturbing as I believe that is the theme to The Exorcist. Maybe she thought she was having Satan's baby.

- Venetian Snares

topic: Mom, Baby, Believe, Exorcist, Headphones