Kevin Parker Quotes

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 created the Soundcloud big bang; you already know what's going on.

Everyone making electronic music has the same tool kits and templates. You listen, and you feel like it can be done on an iPad. If everybody knows all the tricks, it's no more magic.

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

I do love the music aspect of the Internet. The Internet made me.

The Internet was a saving grace for promoting and exposing, and even creating. It's a parallel world to the music industry that already exists, and I'm glad to be a part of it.

I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while, but I was never talented enough to make it. And I started companies. One day came along and I decided to combine the two - and there was Spotify.

Music's always been at the heart of Apple. It's deep in our DNA. We've sold Macs to musicians since the beginning of Macs.

No one has bridged that gap between music and technology yet.

Communion was born out of shared frustration in 2006. We felt that although the likes of MySpace and YouTube opened up the playing field for songwriters online, people's discovery of these new artists was only skin deep.

The music technology scene is changing so fast it's hard to keep up.

I'd be making beats pretty much every day after school and it just grew and grew. I wasn't precious about my music. I just loved creating and putting stuff out there.

Apple is a company that understands music.

Technology has opened up the music business 100-fold and provided space for all kinds of new faces.

I feel like music itself is inspirational enough. Especially with the Internet. Not to sound like a shut-in.

Technology has made music ultimately more democratic.

There is much more immediate access to creative music through online communities and blogs which have touched all corners of the music world including contemporary classical.

For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.

I'm definitely interested in making more music and uploading new covers; I like to take suggestions because it's more fun if people know the song.

People are like, 'Wow you started your own record label,' and treat me like I'm some sort of innovative genius, when I'm not at all. You've got the Internet and music - you put them together, and people hear your music.

So evidently music was a killer app and is a killer app for computer and the Internet; it just took the tech industry a long time to hear that message.

It's much easier to have a diversified career as an electronic musician than it is as a drummer. Nothing against drummers. If you're a drummer, you just wait around for people to ask you to play drums. But if you have your own studio and can make music, you have the ability to approach music a lot differently.

I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

I think everyone should feel like they can make music, they can create music.

Social media and music in general have been changing so fast. You can go on Twitter and go from one artist to another. What I really like about it is the opportunity to communicate directly with your fans.