Headphones Quotes

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

  Mark Duplass

  Old Neighborhood, Favorites Things, My Favorite

  "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.

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• 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

  Night, Silence, Radio

  Source: sleepingbagstudios.ca

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• 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

  Motivational, Sports, Rap

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• You're using your headphones to drown out your mind

  Regina Spektor

  Mind

  Song: Eet, Album: Far, 2009

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• 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

  Fighting, Thinking, Guitar

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

  Greg Rutherford

  Book, Clothes, Noise

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• 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

  Powerful, Ipods, Littles

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• 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

  Music, Beautiful, Confidence

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• 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

  Guitar, Acoustics, Really Cool

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

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• 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

  Romance, World, Incidents

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

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• 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

  Voice, Actors, Done

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

  Stephen Billias

  Use, Problem, Individual

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

  Brian Eno

  Listening To Music

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• 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

  Media, Games, Hip Hop

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• 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

  Kids, Way, Changed

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

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• 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

  Growing Up, Night, Bed

  "Mark Stoermer's Spell". Interview with Christina Cambria, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 12, 2016.

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• 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

  Eye, Bags, Noise

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• 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

  Thinking, Hearing, Messiah

  BBC Radio 2 Show, June 30, 2007.

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• [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

  Nice, Play, Sometimes

  "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.

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• 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

  Song, Eye, Expression

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• 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

  Teacher, Teenager, Lying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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

  Princess, Giants, Subway

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• 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

  Jobs, Character, Creating

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 28, 2007.

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• 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

  People, Car, Cocoons

  Source: bigthink.com

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• 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

  Football, League, Long

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