Om Malik Quotes

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

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

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.

When I use the Internet, it's pretty much strictly for music. Checking out other people's web sites, what's going on, listening to music. It's pretty much a musical thing for me.

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.

That's the beauty with music in the digital age: you're always one follow away from experiencing something new.

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.

Radio isn't just a jukebox for music anymore because you can get music anywhere.

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

I'm very excited about my new Spotify account, which gives me access to twenty gazillion songs any time, all the time. The day I opened my account, though, I sat there perplexed. How would I figure out what I wanted to hear?

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

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.

The great thing about the Internet is that it allows people to find and consume music.

A lot of music fans are still interested in insightful perspectives on music - maybe even more interested than ever, since everyone needs help making sense of the incredible variety of sounds that have sprung up in the wake of the Internet revolution. There's a lot of room for unique, qualified voices who can provide good reads.

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.

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

I mean, Internet radio, which is basically a guy with his iTunes putting it over the computer, is the only way you're going to get true eclectic music programmed.

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.

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.'

When I think about music in the future, I don't make a distinction between what's radio, what used to be the music library, and so on.

The best way for me to discover new music is through YouTube, and through my readers emailing me stuff.

The best thing about a platform like YouTube is that it helps musicians all around the world to reach such a vast audience.

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.

I love to get music sent as an MP3 attachment because that way I can preview the song in my e-mail, without even having to download it to my iTunes. I prefer that over having to go to MySpace, Facebook or YouTube.