Angela Yee Quotes

It's not as much fun to go to karaoke alone, but when you do it through the Internet or on your MySpace page, then you can share it with people.

Napster works because people who love music share and participate.

I think music sharing of any kind is great.

Communion was born out of shared frustration in 2006. We felt that although the likes of MySpace and YouTube opened up the playing field for songwriters online, people's discovery of these new artists was only skin deep.

Social media and music in general have been changing so fast. You can go on Twitter and go from one artist to another. What I really like about it is the opportunity to communicate directly with your fans.

File sharing is our radio; that's the way people hear our stuff.

I do love the music aspect of the Internet. The Internet made me.

The Internet was a saving grace for promoting and exposing, and even creating. It's a parallel world to the music industry that already exists, and I'm glad to be a part of it.

I think live music is really, really important. And I think it's very important to do together. It's much more fun to play to music together than the one person listening to their lone iPod Shuffle. I think it's an amazing way to build community and have children do things that are funded that's not a videogame.

Parties are fun, but they don't create community.

We look at the sharing of music as really, really important for our business.

YouTube is a place for everybody to get together and interact and share their love for Babymetal.

I want to work on reaching out to people, through my music, at the grass-roots level.

I'm trying to help Apple Music be an overall movement in popular culture, everything from unsigned bands to video.

Look, I'm 41 with a six-year-old son, and even though I live in a building with a million kids, he doesn't have one friend there because there's no context for making that happen. I think there's a huge market for a connected building where I could broadcast to other parents that I want to set up a playdate for my child.

There's so many people doing interesting things with the Internet and technology, there could be so many ways of making music and listening to it.

I do think that one of the best effects the Internet has had on music is that it's allowed these false walls between different music communities to vaporize. We can see that this is a big, complex, interconnected web.

SoundCloud was my first break I guess. I got a little bit of a following.That whole bedroom producer genre was kind of kicking itself into gear, and SoundCloud was becoming more of a hub for producers at the time.

I created the Soundcloud big bang; you already know what's going on.

Having lots of human interaction online and during shows is very important to me.

Technology has made music ultimately more democratic.

There is much more immediate access to creative music through online communities and blogs which have touched all corners of the music world including contemporary classical.

There's really nothing better than music to bring people together and to have amazing music being not just created inside walls but then decimating and activating is going to be special.

I would encourage people to bridge broadly and creatively in their communities, not just because that creates the most fun and resiliency, but also because it creates the most points of access for people to be part of the community, which is what democracy is at its best.

I usually like to get people in because I don't have a band or anything. In cities where I have friends, I try to get them to come out and dance for me.