Ed Sheeran Quotes

What we feel, especially in the streaming area, especially in the services area, is that you need curation.

In the digital age we're in now, with satellite radio and Pandora and stuff like that, it's not about, "I listen to this kind of music." It's about, "I listen to good music and bad music."

I was excited by the process of Pandora, which I still think is a decent product. Not as great in actuality as it sounds. After the first hour, its weaknesses start to show up.

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

With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.

I think when you go to a store and you go to the Justin Timberlake page and stream it from there, that's great, but that means you went to the store. iTunes Radio lets you discover it without you having to think about it.

I find a lot of up-and-coming musicians I enjoy, present them to my viewers - and hopefully inflate the growth of these artists by putting them in front an audience that wouldn't have been aware of them.

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

When Spotify launched in the U.S. in 2011, it relied on simple usage-based algorithms to connect users and music, a process known as 'collaborative filtering.' These algorithms were more often annoying than useful.

There's this notion that allows people to create their own collection of songs, so it rewrites what a song is. They may only want 10 seconds of something, or they may only want this particular song, or they want this group of songs. It becomes much more user-controlled.

I'm usually listening to Sirius Satellite in the morning. 'The Heat' usually plays good music.

Spotify is a platform: it could be expanded to other types of content.

I always looked askance at Pandora and Spotify, regarding both as a passive means of experiencing music; they feed you music they presume you will like, and eventually you like it.

A music service needs to be more than a bunch of songs and a few playlists.

We created Apple Music to make finding the right music easier for everyone - men and women, young and old.

Apple Music is a big idea, and it's going to take some time to fulfill its overall dream.

I do think that one of the best effects the Internet has had on music is that it's allowed these false walls between different music communities to vaporize. We can see that this is a big, complex, interconnected web.

You're not really taken seriously when you're on SoundCloud because anybody can upload. It's the same as standing on a street corner and trying to push your mixtape.

The Internet has essentially democratized the music industry in terms of what is popular and it's democratized the music journalism industry as well.

Ever since Apple Music, Spotify, and all of those things came around, we can choose whatever we want to listen to. Before then, it was all controlled, but now, everybody listens to everything.

Soundcloud is the best thing that ever happened to me honestly.

I find so much new music I didn't know about on my Sonos.

We're trying to make the music service a cultural point of reference, and that's why we're making video. We're making video for our Apple Music customers and our future customers.

Spotify favors hits. It's very much a meritocracy: It's not like radio, where whatever is being played is what you hear. We offer songs up, and from there, it's up to consumers to stream the music or not.

I love Apple Music. I helped build Apple Music. It will always be a very, very big part of my life and part of the journey.