Neil Young Quotes

We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us.

I look at radio as gone … Piracy is the new radio, that’s how music gets around.

Kids don't go out and buy CDs, they make their own, they download them from the Internet.

I think eventually all music will be free.

The business has changed dramatically from what it was even just a few years ago. Music isn't even distributed the same way anymore. Even CDs are becoming a thing of the past. The Internet has made it easier to get my music out to anyone who wants it, but at the same time, I feel like we're losing the mystique.

Free downloads is something that I like to do its just not as publicised and it is the future of music.

I think I need to accept the fact that I am where I am today because fans have shared my music illegally and legally, but I wouldn't be here today without the Internet, so I can't speak out against it.

I think music sharing of any kind is great.

You have an entire generation of kids who grew up with the idea that music is something that you can download for free.

File sharing is our radio; that's the way people hear our stuff.

It's made music more accessible with YouTube and the ability to trade audio files. But it hasn't made it more popular.

I went to college during the Kazaa/Napster era, and we had free Internet, which was a huge deal. People were just downloading all of everything.

I guess I'm not saying that I think music should be free, but I do think that if people can get it for free, there's nothing anyone can do to stop them. It's kind of a waste of energy to try and force them to pay for it if they don't have to.

Everyone seems so excited by the fact that music is more accessible, people can find new artists more easily and it's cheaper, without focusing on the potential negatives, not least of which is that idiots can more easily listen to your favourite music.

I download music everyday, I know music is free and so does everybody else you know.

With iTunes and Spotify and Pandora and this and that, you don't need to buy CDs any more.

When you think of Napster, you think of music. But the first thing that struck me was that this was an important case not only for the music industry but for the whole Internet.

Napster is a consumer revolt. Napster is about my right to have this music and to share if I've paid for it. You know, so we start to see our decisions, our opportunities, our every choice is a consumer choice.

I challenge record companies to show me evidence of a single penny they've lost due to Napster.

Gone are the days when you'd have to tune in to a mad illegal radio station late at night to be able to hear the rapper of your choice. That's all changed now. That's all gone out of the window. And I feel like I represent that change. I represent the era of iPods and Shuffle and things like that.

I was never a Lime Wire guy because it's too much hassle to find the song.

I have a very difficult time getting the Napster world.

There's no doubt that the ready availability of music online has created a thousand more opportunities than it's destroyed.

Records aren't selling anymore; people are burning music.

If you can use a search engine, you can find any piece of music that's been recorded for free. I'm not saying that's right, but it's a fact, and I'm surprised that more people don't accept or acknowledge that and try to adapt in some way.