Perez Hilton Quotes

The Internet is the wrong direction for music.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

The same applies to the music and film industries. Until the heads of the labels start wanting to make money rather than creating controversy, tension, and excuses about why piracy is making the job so hard that no one could do it but them - and oh by the way, they need a raise to really focus in on the fight - the music industry is going to have a very tough time of it.

The Internet has been a godsend and a nightmare for the music industry.

I usually kind of can't wait until my records leak. Back in the day, you could give people tapes, but you can't do that anymore, because it would be available to everyone on the planet within an hour.

There are a lot of people, especially the younger generation who don't feel that they need to support the artists by buying their music because they grew up learning that record companies are evil.

When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,' then, well, good riddance.

I'm all for sharing music, but when people can download a whole record and pay nothing for it and then they share it with 100,000 other people, it's breaking down the whole business.

Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.

There's a lot of artists whose contracts are written in such a way that they do not get paid for what's happening on streaming services.

The purpose of VEVO is to continue the tradition of corporations preventing artists from making money on their art.

The library companies have made it so that music is so cheap to license. They do sound-alikes of every band, and it makes it harder for the actual bands to get any decent paychecks for licensing.

I think the consumption of music is at an all-time high. But I think the ways that record companies are trying to monetize it is just all over the place. At the end of the day, music is in the clouds. Before, you could hold it, look at it, turn it around. Now, it's just in the air.

The day that music is taken for free by the majority is the day that the phrase "sell out" doesn't exist any more.

The internet is a great thing but the worst thing that it brought to the music business was piracy and it's made making stuff available really difficult.

Because music wasn't free yet, they wouldn't really offer MP3s so you had to buy things to see if you liked it or not. Which is crazy if you think about how much music you bought and then didn't even like the stuff. It was a different world where bands made money off their music.

The fact that file sharing goes on, and is as popular as it is, is an incredibly positive thing for the music industry. The fact is that music is so popular that people are willing to break the law to get it.

People who buy my records don't go into music stores - music stores which are fading before our very eyes.

The battle over Napster has divided musicians and industry officials.

I don't do CDs. I only do radio. That's the truth.

Everything ain't just about the radio.

From the artist's standpoint, are you getting more from streaming than you used to, prior to the days of the Internet? No - and I don't know if those days are ever going to come back - but at least, technically speaking, it's the legal way to do it.

I think in a lot of situations I had got songs stolen from me, or treated badly.

I think eventually all music will be free.

The fact is that 'free' in music streaming is so technically good and ubiquitous that it's stunting the growth of paid streaming.