Mac DeMarco Quotes

If it wasn't for the Internet, I wouldn't be here. I'd probably be rapping, but I wouldn't be well known if it wasn't for the Internet.

If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media.

YouTube is an amazing platform for young musicians - although it's harder to get noticed now that everyone is on it.

The Internet has definitely opened doors and leveled the playing field for musicians.

I'm so grateful to Spotify for the enormous support to the reggaeton movement.

That's what I love about the Internet - instead of having to wait on radio to play your song or TV to play your video, I can use the Internet as a tool to get my music out earlier.

I can work my butt off and create an album that's wonderful, but if it's never played and never given the outlet, it won't succeed.

To come out in the music business, you only really get one shot. A lot of people get to play small gigs first, and build up that way, without anyone really seeing them.

Radio and TV can still push a band, but things need to be shaken up. There is the Internet, but mostly what I see there is little kids on YouTube playing music.

With Sumthin Else Music Works, I wanted to spread the love and give newcomers a chance to make it because something that really helped me were all the people who had given me an opportunity when I was putting my career together.

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.

How does a band like System of a Down get big?

If people want to see you, they'll find you. If they don't see you on TV, they'll find you on the Internet.

Good bands won't get famous anymore unless they get really lucky.

I think the Internet was the saving grace for Public Enemy. Before that, travelling the world saved Public Enemy.

I didn't expect major labels would embrace MySpace, and the original idea for music on the site was the unsigned bands, the independent bands.

I saw how hard it was for even really talented bands to reach an audience.

When I first debuted back in 2009, K-Pop was already starting to get bigger because of the Internet. And that's how I found it, because I'm not Korean.

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.

We uploaded 'Ocean Eyes' to SoundCloud, and it started getting a lot of plays pretty much immediately.

I just want to share trendy music with my fans.

At first, I didn't focus that much on the Internet. I was more, 'I'm going to write songs,' and I'd have sung that song out in a club, pub, or a jam session or whatever 10 times before I recorded it. We live in an Internet age, and if you don't embrace it, you get left behind a bit.

In this day and age, though, no matter how many people you play for, if you're playing with a band like Blink, millions of people will see it thanks to YouTube and everything recording it.

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

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.