Music Downloads Quotes

Amazon.com isn't the same as going down an aisle. The same as record stores. You'll go for Billie Holiday, and you buy Gustav Mahler as you're going out the door.

I have a whole lot of songs.

When I'm at home, I like to put records on, but because I travel a lot, I listen to a lot of music on my iPhone.

For the most part, rock fans don't go and buy CDs any more, very rarely. It's pretty much about downloads and streaming.

People have got no attention span these days with music - I come from the time where I bought the whole album and listened to it back to back.

I don't listen to the radio.

The iPod has taken away the whole platinum record sales prospect. Sincerity and specificity are going to be the hot commodities in music. Everybody can have anything that they want, so now it gets into what specifically you have to give.

I don't know how many records I'm selling.

'Me Like Yuh' got, like, 20 million plays on Spotify.

My kids don't really buy albums. They buy singles.

Even if there were no illegal copying, the advent of digital distribution will put a lot of stress on the movie and music industry. When the distribution costs comes down, that puts more price pressure on the rest of the cost.

Tell me a musician who's got rich off digital sales. Apple's doing pretty good though, right?

The Internet has been a godsend and a nightmare for the music industry.

I'm a big online everything. But for me, shopping online started with music, obviously, then it went onto books, meditation CDs, and I just recently bought these electronic cigarettes. My husband is trying to quit smoking, so I went online and I bought those BluCigs cigarettes in every flavor for him.

I try and keep up with the top 10 on iTunes.

No one listens to CDs anymore. Who even owns a CD? I used to bring my CDs to shows, and it was, like, a guarantee that everyone would buy one. Nope! Not anymore.

I don't even hear radio anymore.

I don't know where streaming will go in the future. The analytics that we're seeing tell us that streaming is the next thing, and downloads are going down. I feel like with the history of this platform, from vinyl to where we are now, it just seems like the next logical step.

Most people didn't have the bandwidth to download whole albums. And so it brought back this cherry picking idea that the audience would focus on certain songs and possibly be the impetus behind what eventually got on AM radio: the single or whatever.

I like buying iTunes. It's instant.

Music was everything. But what the digital revolution has done, with streaming services and downloads, is take the value out of music. When things lose value they lose their meaning.

Any time that you can give the consumer more of what they want, it's a good thing. I said from Day 1 that the unbundling of the album is a good thing.

People don't buy CDs so much anymore because it's easy to download everything. So, while the record industry is declining, the music is heard a lot more than before.

Selling MP3s or physical copies, it's still cool, but I think it's slowly becoming outdated to where people just want to build a culture.

The rise of the iPod meant that digital music became the norm, It's sad, but you can still find the real stuff out there if you look for it!