Tay Keith Quotes

If you're looking to make a basic living selling and playing your music, the Internet is all you really need.

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.

Sheet music, recording, radio, television, cassettes, CD burners, and file sharing have all invalidated, to some extent, the old model of making a living making music.

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

I'd hate to be a songwriter starting a career today.

People are doing what they can these days and looking for creative ways to sell music.

Everyone has learned how to monetize music except the music industry.

Music is more available than ever. It's up to people to figure out. Ultimately, it's up to the business to figure out what the business is, monetizing that.

Selling music doesn't make that much money.

Music is now becoming 'free,' and it's very difficult for new artists to start.

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.

People are buying music from 12-year-olds. No one realizes they didn't create this. They didn't write this. They didn't make this. All they have to do is press play, and you have a band.

That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them.

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.

I have had the good fortune to experience both the limelight and the traffic light as a musician. I did my first recording on my own and it was available at concerts. The second to seventh were released on small and then large labels. My eighth to 14th were done under my own steam once again, but with the benefit of the Internet.

You don't sell as many records as you used to because of illegal downloads, but I think there are other ways you can make money through your music. Whether it's through merchandise or teaming up with other companies or brands or whatever, there are ways.

It's interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had.

I think music sharing of any kind is great.

Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.

The record industry is still pissed off that other people are making money off their business, even if it promotes their products and increases their sales. I think they're still mad about radio.

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.

One startup I dream of funding is the one that kills the record companies.

Between the record companies being the way they are and the fact that people can just download one song instead of buying a whole album, it's hard to make a good living nowadays.

I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.

Spotify is returning a huge amount of money. We'll overtake iTunes in terms of what we bring to the record industry in under two years.