Todd Rundgren Quotes

I don't think piracy is going to kill the music industry. But digital technology and the ability to download will change the packaging from CDs to a single-based business.

I feel quite excited about the possibility of working on multiple albums. There's something really iconic about having a catalog featuring a lot of albums, and I'd love to have that legacy.

I made my first album, and I guess it wasn't a fluke, because now I'm on my 16th.

The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.

Something is better than nothing. Doin' anything for a man, there's investments involved, there's time and production. It's better to give him ten bucks and get a record out than to never record the cat.

You're starting to see new record companies and business models taking shape, but it takes time.

The fact is, I've been releasing records longer than I've been releasing films, or at least exactly as long.

I don't think that old-fashioned idea of record companies exists any more.

The music business has changed incredibly. There used to be 50 record companies. Now there's only three, and it's just getting smaller and smaller. But then again, you have the Internet, so anybody who has music can get it out there.

The music industry is an interesting lens through which to look at change, because it has had such a difficult time adjusting to the digital age.

If I wanted to do 'The Missing Files of Missy Elliott,' I have probably six albums just sitting there.

The music industry is transforming fairly rapidly.

As long as the fans keep wanting to hear new records from us every few years, we'll keep making them.

I make records all the time. But making records is not quite the same as getting them to the audience.

People don't necessarily expect singles from me. They expect full bodies of work.

It all started with social media, building a fan base via Tumblr and YouTube, doing covers, and releasing a project with original music. Labels started to peel interest then. It was around the same time I was applying for college.

If you're an artist, create music and put it out on the Internet. If you do this consistently, your fan base will continue growing, and that will power your entire career.

I guess the way people release music and the way people listen to it has changed and is changing constantly. We wanna get the music out as quickly as possible. We're sitting on a lot of stuff and constantly making new stuff as well.

I write all the time, and I write a lot of songs, but before I started putting out records, those songs always just ended up on stuff that I did with The Babies.

All of the people we admire have extensive catalogs, so what's most exciting about people responding well to the band is allowing us to continue making as many records as we can.

My fans should always be ready for new music.

I started out as musician and recording artist but quite soon started to do my own videos. One thing led to another, and soon I was making videos for a living.

I was recently realizing that I've probably spent 80 percent of my life in studios! It's very difficult to do that and still have a private life; it's very difficult to do anything else.

I played on Asia records with Geoff Downes.

If I had a nickel for every time someone asked, 'When are you doing an album?' My career is way too transparent to do say, 'Guess what - I've got 16 tracks you've never heard!'