Jeff Tweedy Quotes

SOPA has been described as hitting a carpet tack with a sledgehammer. But technology was a sledgehammer to the music industry, one that allowed digital distributors like Apple to grow rich.

Everything has gotten less expensive. Digitization has made content, whether it's print or music, less costly. Today, anyone can read the news for free online.

Really, having a show freely available online is like having your book in the library. It's wonderful; it's ideal.

Music, photography, media, film - it's all going to be free on the Internet. We have to accept it.

At first, I didn't focus that much on the Internet. I was more, 'I'm going to write songs,' and I'd have sung that song out in a club, pub, or a jam session or whatever 10 times before I recorded it. We live in an Internet age, and if you don't embrace it, you get left behind a bit.

I do love the social-media aspect of working records nowadays. You can do a video and put it up on social media, and people check you out who would never check you out before. I think it's much cooler that you can just get the product right to the fans.

I was always putting songs on the Internet, but I was never into pushing them on anyone.

The Internet has killed the traditional record business, but it's given back in the way of instant access.

I started with a website, Jasonmraz.com, pre-YouTube. You could e-mail me directly, and I would send you a CD.

Everyone seems to think that digital technology devoids the medium of content, but that is not true at all. If anything, it broadens the content.

We do live in this age of new media.

Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home.

I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.

This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Bruno Mars, he's using Spotify, creating playlists and listening to music through it.

Perhaps the most encouraging trend is that, through technology, people are realizing how much agency they actually have. Technology has revolutionized the way we eat, live, communicate, socialize, learn, and do. We see enormous potential to create lasting, positive change in the way the world works by doing what we are doing.

Free is not going to go away. Either the advertising model will still work, or there will still be literally hundreds of millions of people who want to put their information on the Net and want people to have access to it.

The Internet's impact is immense. My students can't imagine ever paying for a book.

E-books, which made their debut in the 1990s, cut costs even more for both consumer and producer, though as the Internet expanded, those roles became confused.

Everyone has learned how to monetize music except the music industry.

A platform is the base from which something big happens. In our case, we're an entertainment platform in the sense that there are people signing up like MTV, Burberry, folks like Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber. And why? Because it's their channel to control their entertainment to their fans.

I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.

I feel sort of really aware of how the... online cyber world has begun to take over reality.

Good jazz has been a big part of my life as far as my interest in music, and... It's kind of weird now with music, the way technology is, with downloading and iPods and electronic distribution, and its kind of - you miss something, I think.

I'm not saying you can't be successful in the music industry without Spotify. But when I look at the future of music, I don't think scarcity is the model anymore. We have to embrace ubiquity - that music is everywhere.

We have something very powerful in our hands with the Internet, and we still don't really understand fully its power.