Music Landscape Quotes

MTV didn't exist in 1980, but by 1982, it had gotten to be a force to be reckoned with.

The C+ amps is vintage at this point, and it definitely has a certain sound to it. I wanted something that was going to keep Dream Theater in more of a current musical landscape, as far as being the producer and producing the type of album I wanted to hear.

Serious musicians are finding it harder and harder to have a voice in the world of music these days.

The music scene is more competitive in the States.

The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music.

Any of the decisions that I made, if one could actually locate a shape or form, were all within a wall, the landscape of music.

I don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot - the methods of releasing music.

I feel like, as musicians, we need to fight the Spotify thing. I feel that in some ways what's happening in the mainstream is the last gasp of the old industry. Once that does finally die, which it will, something else will happen.

The trouble with indie music in India is it continues to be overshadowed by Bollywood.

There's no doubt that the ready availability of music online has created a thousand more opportunities than it's destroyed.

The rise of the Internet has caused the demise of the record labels, and has destroyed the music business of old, but it's also created new opportunities for young artists.

I've been through the music industry and with the Internet the music industry is not what it used to be.

Music is the soundtrack to your life. It's not going to go anywhere. But the way people are purchasing music has changed. It's not the same anymore. It will never be the same.

The Internet has changed how young people listen to music. Television programs like 'American Idol' changed how people listen to music. It was no longer the songwriters that we celebrated; it was the singers.

I guess I would definitely feel a bit of a void in what people are getting from music these days. And I think that the problem lies not so much on the listener. People kind of listen to what is presented to them, whether it be on the radio or at a local venue.

When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s.

I still like to play the guitar, but I rarely have anything to do with the music business these days. I mean, there is no music business anymore, is there?

I come from a time when pop music was the coin of the cultural realm and in a certain way was the only coin of the realm; movies didn't matter as much, and not TV - it was all about pop music. In the era when I started - which was the early '60s - it was all about singles leading to albums.

There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land.

I think in the old music, everything was so competitive. It was all about - very selfish in a lot of ways. The label sort of capitalized on that desperation and that competition. In the new music landscape, with is the democratization of the internet and music in general, I think it can be a lot more collaborative. People, instead of competing, they can actually support each other, in music.

I don't relate to what's left of the music business. There doesn't seem to be any point to it anymore. The business that I grew up in and loved, we made records a different way - there were record companies, there were stores where you could buy albums.

I'm not trying to dog any artist or genre, but to me, there is a lot of diversity missing from the radio. I miss turning the radio on and getting punched in the soul with a great lyric.

EMI is a proven leader in the emerging digital music landscape and one of the world's largest and most respected music companies.

It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening to more music than ever and from a greater diversity of artists.

In the new music landscape, with is the democratization of the internet and music in general, I think it can be a lot more collaborative.