David Bryan Quotes

The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

Kids just want to have one song. They don't care about a body of work; they don't even care about a whole album - they just want whatever's hot right now. They download that song, and that's it.

With iTunes and Spotify and Pandora and this and that, you don't need to buy CDs any more.

Someone asked me the other day what my favourite record shop was, and I said YouTube.

People just want to have access to all of the world's music.

I've been able to find just as much interesting, exciting music through the Internet and iTunes... The personal interaction is not the same, and I'm not walking out of a store with a physical thing, so there's definitely an element that is lost, for sure.

I went through my adolescence having this revelatory experience - I can have any music I want, and I can get it immediately. For me and for a lot of people I know, there's this musical eclecticism that happened.

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.

The iPod has changed all that because sometimes I listen to an album from beginning to end, but now I put the stuff on shuffle and have the iPod tell me what I'm listening to, especially if I'm working out.

When I was younger, I'd buy a vinyl album, take it home and live with it, and I think that attachment's largely gone for the file-sharing generation.

I used to love going to shows and finding new bands, but the Internet takes the fun out of it. Like a band? You can buy and download every single song they have ever done within five minutes.

Spotify - I met those guys before they launched in America and was wildly excited about the idea. 'Wow, this is all the music in the world, for a flat fee.'

As music migrates into our iPods, CD collections require less and less room, residing in our heads rather than resounding off the walls. The protracted labor of amassing a personal music library has lost its detective zeal.

One thing I always do is listen to my iPod. I listen to whatever is kind of new on the radio, I am always downloading stuff.

I was totally a Bandcamp person.

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.

There's a lot of people out there - like, a lot of people out there - that wouldn't know our music if it wasn't for Spotify.

Technology has made music ultimately more democratic.

Innovation will come from an ecosystem of pervasive computing so natural and all-encompassing that it disappears into the background.

Apple Music is a big idea, and it's going to take some time to fulfill its overall dream.

Technology has opened up the music business 100-fold and provided space for all kinds of new faces.

My problem is that we are all listening to music in a more disposable fashion.

When we first started in '04 or '05, that's when social media started to become a way to release music and connect with fans - and our fans were kind of at the forefront of that.

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.

The reality is, when I'm sitting in a hotel room at 3 in the morning, and I see something on the Internet that interests me in the form of a band I want to hear, I like the ability to just go online to iTunes and download it immediately.