Flume Quotes

Social media is so influential now.

The new artist is meeting the general public before they meet the record company. They're able to put the material on YouTube and have a million views before they even meet an executive at a record company, and get the deal based on that.

Bands are going to MySpace because it's free and they don't have to know how to do a Web site.

The NBA has been extraordinary in its use and embrace of social media; they are by far the leader in professional sports.

The online thing has been really big for us: the YouTube videos, the MySpace.

A lot of what's happened with my career has been because of the Internet. It's a way for me to reach fans directly, especially with music.

The leverage and influence social media gives citizens are rapidly spreading into the business world.

Technology has allowed me to reach my fans directly. Social media: it has been a complete revolution of how to interact, promote and share things.

Among the social media - I've tried them all - Facebook is a bit of a game, but Twitter is a productivity tool. I use it regularly and I'm addicted to it.

At a minimum the majority of search dollars will flow to a social media model because people care most about what their peers think and the technology is there for that information to be quickly shared on products and services.

My kids tell me to Instagram, so I do that. I have a few thousand followers.

Social media is just a platform. Twitter is a very simple and immediate broadcast platform. Facebook is a very personal, when it comes to friends and when it comes to fan pages, a little bit less but still somewhat personal way to communicate.

I sort of came out at the dawn of the Internet in the mid-90s and I think it helped break my career. I think I was one of the first artists to really benefit from the grassroots swell that can happen online. I don't know if I would have broken out without it.

What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media... So we must try to use social media in a good way.

The social networking sites are such good way to keep in touch with your fans, it's quick and simple and it keeps your fans interested in what you're doing.

For the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it's doom and gloom and you have to spend millions of pounds on marketing and this and that, you have this amazing thing now called fan power. The whole world is linked through a laptop. It's amazing. And it's free. I love it. It's absolutely brilliant.

The social-media landscape changes incredibly fast, so you have to be open-minded and nimble to keep up with it.

I really utilize all of my social networking sites.

I hope that all new filmmakers see that the Internet and social media are helpful tools in establishing a fan base as well as being able to interact with your fans.

I think social media is very long-lasting. I just don't know the particular thing with Twitter.

I have a computer and an iPad, but I have no interest in Twitter.

On Friendster, if you were a band and you made a profile, they would delete it. They didn't want bands on their site.

There is this idea that your social media platform is the secret to success, but no one has quite proven that to be true, if you ask me.

Twitter and Tumblr and Vine and Instagram and Facebook and Myspace, all these things are social media tools that we were all told we had to have, and what we're realizing is that, no you don't! No you don't.

Real social situations are taking a back seat to social media.