Badshah Quotes

I personally stream or download from iTunes because I love the quick access that I have to music; I don't have to write down a list of songs that I like and then go to the shop.

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.

I love iTunes. I love downloading music.

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

Obviously, I want it to be legally downloaded, and I myself have spent a fortune on iTunes because, for me, that's the easiest way to get music.

I don't have the same access or time to gain access to music the way I used to.

You start to accumulate your library of music. You want that music everywhere - that's the point where we monetize. If you want portability, mobility, and access, then you buy it.

When you go to a band's MySpace page you will have the full discography of everything they've ever recorded that you can listen to online.

Spotify, Tidal, and even YouTube, to a degree, are vast and rich troves of music, but they primarily function as search engines organized by algorithms. You typically have to know what you're looking for in order to find it.

iTunes is my favorite record store.

I really like streaming services. It's a great way for people to find your music.

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

With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.

Nobody has ever built a reliable peer-to-peer service, where people can really access all the music they want in one location,... Once I got it into my head, I couldn't imagine the media space without one.

I think when you go to a store and you go to the Justin Timberlake page and stream it from there, that's great, but that means you went to the store. iTunes Radio lets you discover it without you having to think about it.

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.

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

I was never a Lime Wire guy because it's too much hassle to find the song.

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

I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.

iTunes kind of feels like Sam Goody to me. I don't feel cool when I go there. I'm tired of seeing John Mayer's face pop up.

If you can use a search engine, you can find any piece of music that's been recorded for free. I'm not saying that's right, but it's a fact, and I'm surprised that more people don't accept or acknowledge that and try to adapt in some way.

Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download.

I like buying iTunes. It's instant.

If you made a record, I'd probably pick out tracks that I like and download that. That's just how it is.