Doug Morris Quotes

I think it's a reflection of the music business in general, which to me seems very fragmented.

I think times have changed, and there's no dearth of talent in the music industry.

Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.

I think the Internet is going to open up a lot of possibilities with music, and the shake-up of power is exciting to me.

I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there.

With pop music, the format dictates the form to a big degree. Just think of the pop single. It has endured as a form even in the download age because bands conform to a strict format, and work, often very productively, within the parameters.

The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.

The only thing I've ever offered the public is some music. If they like the music, that's great. Turn on the radio. If they don't like it, switch it off.

The music industry is so cool because it's constantly changing.

We have to make the physical music a little more valuable instead of just having a download link and a bunch of songs you downloaded from some torrent site. People try to make the music value-less, and I don't think we're going to stop that train, but the one thing that they can't devalue are things that are in the outside world.

I don't really like meetings, I like recording and performing music. I need to set myself up for when the time does come that I need better distribution or just a bigger team behind me.

Recorded music is more a marketing tool than a revenue source.

The point is, technology has empowered so many musicians, you know?

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 think that's the problem in a lot of music. We've got these record labels.

I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part.

Rock and roll music - people want records. For me, it's the whole thing - the package. I don't get satisfaction from buying an MP3.

Music is so hard. It's a struggle to get people to care. It's hard to make an impact in today's world because people aren't buying records anymore.

You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it.

I think the record industry has gotten to be more about labels wondering what the new single is rather than labels nurturing artists. It's gotten away from making a full album of music that someone would want to listen to all the way through.

As long as someone wants to hear my music, I don't care if it's a ringtone or the album or whatever.

The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

The music business doesn't interest me anymore.

When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s.

I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.