James Horner Quotes

If you want to play somebody's music, you'd better go into his house.

If music is to continue to support the livelihoods of artists, it cannot be taken without the permission of artists.

Because I don't believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from.

There are a lot of people who really abused sampling and gave it a bad name, by just taking people's entire hit songs and rapping over them. It gave publishers license to get a little greedy.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I don't think music should be free.

It's nice if people ask to use your song. You have to make a decision as an artist how you feel about that.

The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, these are just some of the people who threatened to sue if we used their songs.

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

And once the music is out there, when you're selling a record and selling music and people are going to do whatever they want with it, it's kind of hard to resist certain opportunities, especially in the record market now.

I've copyrighted 3,000 songs.

If somebody makes a record, no matter how many years later it's released, they or their families should be entitled to the proceeds.

I've never sold my publishing. I have 100% control of all of my publishing and that includes everything, every use of my songs.

When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,' then, well, good riddance.

I would never put my songs in a commercial.

There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.

I'm overly excited to finally announce this amazing global partnership deal back home with EMI Music. I know I have mentioned doing music in the past but for legal reasons I was not in a position to release any new music.

Well, I think that it is complicated in that the first four albums were all with Universal so they have the rights to that and therefore it is a lot easier for them to do that period.

Napster was a black market for music. Ninety-nine per cent of the music that people were downloading was illegal because they didn't have the rights for it.

Marc Almond has done a couple of covers, a few people in Europa have done them. I own all the publishing. It's never really been addressed, as I haven't had the time to go out and tout the songs.

I did not start IC and Inteam to have control over my music. I had control before and after.

A lot of big whoever producers, they come with a song and they say, 'Sing this,' and I'm not that girl.

It's so funny because if you tweet your lyrics and then you hear it in a song next week, you're like, 'Hey I had that same idea.' I'm very secretive with my music. We have to send emails password protected. Because once that song gets out, you aren't selling that thing.

Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale of our work, and many times are not even credited.

Obviously, I want it to be legally downloaded, and I myself have spent a fortune on iTunes because, for me, that's the easiest way to get music.

To me, it's all about opening all the doors and getting people to be not only prolific, but creative and having control of their music.