Courtney Barnett Quotes

I once worked at a record label called London Records. The company was owned by Roger Ames, one of the most successful figures in the British music industry. Roger always placed a value on loafing, on holidays, on not being in the office all the time.

The cool thing about G.O.O.D. Music is it's a bunch of great ideas, and I'm one of those ideas.

I just wanted to have my own dynasty. I wanted my own Cash Money or Roc-A-Fella. Outside of that, I also wanted my own media company.

As a technology guy, and someone in music, I'm on top of technology and social media.

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.

Recorded music is more a marketing tool than a revenue source.

When you don't have a record label and you have been on your own as we have, you can look at all these other ways you can get in touch with other people and get music out there again.

So evidently music was a killer app and is a killer app for computer and the Internet; it just took the tech industry a long time to hear that message.

My whole career began because I was always putting my music on the Internet. By the time I had my first tour, I had an audience everywhere I went, because people were listening online.

It's very easy for people to put out music.

I've been working in the music industry since I was 15 years old, and I feel like I've always been ahead of my time.

Obviously, as the music business has suffered tremendously, with being able to illegally download everything, it's also become amazingly easy to find new bands, because everyone can put their stuff online. Even if you can't find a record label, you can find these awesome bands, all over the world.

Yeah, man I am going to be writing a book soon. The reality of being in a rock band in the music business'.

Independent artists and labels have always been the trend setters in music and the music business.

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

Making music has gotten easier; selling it has gotten harder. Making music has been democratized, but the market is in the hands of fascists.

The music industry is so cool because it's constantly changing.

Apple is a company that understands music.

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

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

I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business.

We have to make the physical music a little more valuable instead of just having a download link and a bunch of songs you downloaded from some torrent site. People try to make the music value-less, and I don't think we're going to stop that train, but the one thing that they can't devalue are things that are in the outside world.

There's this idea of a star, and this person is very aloof and writes all the music, and they don't talk to anyone unless they go through the record label. And I always felt very uncomfortable about that.

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'm consistently recording and releasing stuff online or YouTube videos or whatever it is. I just don't know if it's going to be a full on, I'm the next Rihanna, or whatever. I'm not going for it to that level. But I love making music and I don't think I could stop if I wanted to.