Liz Phair Quotes

I think music sharing of any kind is great.

The way consumers interact with music is different now. It's not an albums business anymore; it's a singles business again, and the industry has gone through that before.

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.

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.

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

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

I think the cool thing about being alive in 2017 is that you can literally put out music as soon and as frequently as you want to because of streaming services.

The business of making music is changing so radically because of the Internet. It's become a lot more democratic in one respect, but in another respect there's no one left to guide and mentor young bands.

I had my own label, Rising Force Records, and made records, but had them distributed to the chains, to the retailers, but the retailers are gone - there's no physical sales anymore - so I'm not gonna make the CDs and have 'em put into trucks to go nowhere.

You can put your music out on YouTube and get messages from all over the world.

I don't even know how people managed without the Internet years ago. Having to mail a cassette tape of your music to strangers over the course of months... I just can't imagine having to do that.

I'd been an artist since I was 17 and I was used to just putting things on iTunes. So I was like, I need to educate myself and figure out the new industry.

The record industry needs a company like HTC to bring music to the phone.

I was always putting songs on the Internet, but I was never into pushing them on anyone.

Tell me a musician who's got rich off digital sales. Apple's doing pretty good though, right?

The Internet's changed everything. There are no record stores to hang out in anymore.

We look at the sharing of music as really, really important for our business.

We believe that the Internet is the live concert promoters best friend although it might have crippled the record label business.

I don't look at Spotify or Rdio or any of these guys as a direct competitor: I look at other forms of entertainment as the competitor.

You can have the power of your music on your cellphone and reach millions.

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

The traditional model for selling an album isn't the only way of doing things.

Music has changed. You can just throw songs out on iTunes song by song; you don't have to do a whole album.

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 posted some songs on MySpace, and right away people started asking, 'Where can I get a CD?'