Music Consumption Quotes

If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage

I think fans get bored of the pre-roll. I also think they don't care about the pre-roll, they just want the album.

A lot of people in Nashville think that the best song is the catchiest or the one that sells the most copies. They're editing songs in a way that make them seem more consumable, I guess. I'm trying to edit them in a way that makes them more honest.

The subscription model of buying music is bankrupt. I think you could make available the Second Coming in a subscription model and it might not be successful.

When you do mixtapes, a lot of times your fanbase can say, 'We've been getting this for free for so many years, his new album is about to drop, we've listened to it, and we're not going to buy it. We'll download it for free.'

I've grown up with my audience; they're my age or older. Not a lot of kids are coming to see me.

Ninety percent of what I'm listening to overall is like the same tape of Bob Marley's Greatest Hits. Like, how did I become one of those people on late night TV where they sell anthologies to you and you buy them?

In a way, the traditional album is no longer as important as it used to be. But at the same time, I don't want to be the kind of artist who just releases one song after another.

I can still make a living with touring. And maybe you buy a t-shirt. And I would rather 10 million people get my record and listen to it for free than 500,000 that I coerced to pay $15 for it, you know?

There's no problem with fans and bands. There's a problem with the economics of the outside disruption of the industry.

You know I used to listen to music a lot more.

With the advent of radio and recording, music became an industry rather than just a tradition.

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

Our society and media have lost touch with the job of the artist. The job of the artist has been subordinated to the job of the record seller.

One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.

Back in the day, the album was king in many ways. And, of course, we were very tied in with the birth of FM/college radio in the States, and what we were doing suited the format of those young radio stations.

Perhaps the most important thing that technology does is free the listener to participate in ways that in all previous periods of listening were governed by the performer.

I like to put something on and want to listen to it again once I get done listening to it, not feel like I need an ear break.

I've lost touch with a lot of that boutique-type music just because of my age, and raising my son and the multiple jobs I have at this point.

The record business is changing a lot, and I don't think to the detriment of music - I think, if anything, it's helping music. It's to the detriment of the business in some aspects. In many ways, you might say this is not the time to be going back to the majors, it's the time to be leaving them, which is a good point.

I want my fans to listen to my music. Period.

The whole experience of getting an album from an artist you like and listening to it from beginning to end is sort of gone. Now it's piecemeal.

Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic.

I don't keep up with music.

MTV can't do less for me, let's put it that way. I'm fine without them.