Anita Elberse Quotes

I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don't think I got rich on it. The labels and publishers did very cheap deals on our songs.

The music industry is really difficult.

I don't think piracy is going to kill the music industry. But digital technology and the ability to download will change the packaging from CDs to a single-based business.

I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in.

I have been skeptical and not trusting of traditional models of the entertainment industry. I never got a manager.

I don't think that old-fashioned idea of record companies exists any more.

But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.

You have major labels that are willing to take unconventional approaches because the old model is crumbling in front of us.

The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.

The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.

The music industry is very small.

Music is everywhere - you consume it every day, everywhere you go. The content creator should be compensated. It's only fair.

Spotify wants to make consuming music simpler and at the same time pay the rights owners.

Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works.

The music business used to be filled with people who love music.

What people don't realize is that the initial sales of an album isn't where the bulk of your returns come from. It happens over time, sitting in the catalog, picking up commercials, getting included on packages here and there - there's years and years of pipeline money that goes on. That's where real money comes from - building that body of work.

The income streams of musicians have all been upstreamed into the pockets of computer corporations. Sound recordings are little more than free crackerjacks inside every computer or cellphone that you buy.

A song is essentially an 'asset' after its creation and release because it can be traded, sold or rented. This makes it the backbone of earnings in the 'music ecosystem.'

To me, the music industry doesn't exist, it's like the devil, it doesn't exist if you don't believe in it.

If you look at something like Spotify, many record labels are investors in the company. So from that standpoint, the money is all going back into the labels.

Now we know that, the way contracts are set up, it's not really made for artists to get rich from selling records - that's the company's one shot to make money.

I suppose we don't know that much about how the music business operates in the U.K., but from what I've heard, it's a pretty big deal.

Getting a record deal is a meaningless thing now.

When Pandora doesn't pay, and bars don't pay, and weddings don't pay, and nobody buys CDs or shirts or concert tickets or lessons, then the musician can't make a living making music.

As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving.