Rag'n'Bone Man Quotes

Rock and roll music - people want records. For me, it's the whole thing - the package. I don't get satisfaction from buying an MP3.

The whole experience of getting an album from an artist you like and listening to it from beginning to end is sort of gone. Now it's piecemeal.

The Internet has changed how young people listen to music. Television programs like 'American Idol' changed how people listen to music. It was no longer the songwriters that we celebrated; it was the singers.

It's such a changing industry, and I realize that it's become more digital- and singles-driven, but I still love listening to a full record. It's the artist's story captured in 12 or 15 songs.

My iPod's unbelievable. Seriously. The kids have put most of the music on it, but there's a complete mix of '80s rubbish and current day stuff.

Selling MP3s or physical copies, it's still cool, but I think it's slowly becoming outdated to where people just want to build a culture.

I've probably bought ten CDs in my whole life.

As long as someone wants to hear my music, I don't care if it's a ringtone or the album or whatever.

I've seen 13, 14-year-olds opening CDs as though they're records from the 1920s, going 'Look at this - there's a little book!'... That makes me think the format has probably had its day.

I don't think people really do listen. We plug into music, and we have short attention spans. We tend to download individual tracks from iTunes rather than a whole album. We buy music DVDs and watch them once, and then they disappear into a drawer, or we loan them to a friend, and we never watch it again.

The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music.

I understand that people want to just listen to a track and put it on their iPod, and that's fine, there's nothing wrong with that, but why can't that exist hand in hand with an album? They're such different experiences.

For the most part, rock fans don't go and buy CDs any more, very rarely. It's pretty much about downloads and streaming.

The rise of the iPod meant that digital music became the norm, It's sad, but you can still find the real stuff out there if you look for it!

The great thing about albums is it gives you a lot of choices, and we can all say that the album business is dead, but watch Taylor Swift. I don't think it's dead. I just think we've got to hit on the energies that make people want to collect albums.

There's a tremendous audience out there for popular music. It's a bigger audience than for movies.

I come from the streaming world, so the changing trend of consuming music that way is positive for me.

People are getting away from the whole album experience, it's true. I think that's sad. Maybe I'm just saying that because I'm an old fart. But I can't help it - albums are what I grew up with, and I still love them.

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

I'm admittedly a record guy. Singles and I are a different beast. I'm definitely an overall picture thinker.

The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.

The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.

Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.

Music, in the past few years... anything singable or understandable is square.

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.