Elvis Duran Quotes

Radio as we know it is pretty much changing completely.

I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television.

File sharing is our radio; that's the way people hear our stuff.

We're in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.

Traditional radio is not going to die; it's going to evolve.

I think initially, the record industry struggled a lot with digital media because there are a lot of aspects to it that can potentially destroy our industry.

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

Technology has given us convenience, but at the same time it's making musicians work harder in that if you really want to make money making music and selling albums, you have to go out there and perform. And hope you sell stuff like merch, and get on YouTube, and all the other ancillary sort of things that go along with that.

There's a big difference between doing the odd gig and actually having a record out and your name being on the ticket.

Editorial outfits are now advertising agencies.

Unless I've got Katy Perry on the cover of my CD, it's going to be tough to sell a lot of records.

I would go on the iTunes chart and see the hottest songs, then I'd cover them. People would go on YouTube and search for those songs. That's how I got my views. I'd post two or three songs a week.

YouTube provides a unique opportunity for all musicians to market and promote their music and directly engage their fans.

I find a lot of up-and-coming musicians I enjoy, present them to my viewers - and hopefully inflate the growth of these artists by putting them in front an audience that wouldn't have been aware of them.

It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.

I've noticed more people coming to shows and I've had a feeling that they were from a part of the culture I haven't been able to get to before, younger people. I think on iTunes they've been experimenting with my songs and the digital radio world has been very kind to me.

If you can go out with your live show and turn people on to that, where you have that fan base that's religious and they're going to come see you when you're in that town, once your radio success is gone and you're not a mainstream guy anymore you can still go out and play your shows.

Because of the way the record business has kind of stumbled and disintegrated, in a way, you're as likely to sell records at your merch table at your gigs as you are to sell them in a regular record outlet or even online.

For the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it's doom and gloom and you have to spend millions of pounds on marketing and this and that, you have this amazing thing now called fan power. The whole world is linked through a laptop. It's amazing. And it's free. I love it. It's absolutely brilliant.

When you put an album out, you can't do any material from the album if people are paying to see you.

Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.

I've always said that if you have songs on the radio and get played, you've got to have a tour to support that.

In my world view, clearly the Internet is a huge force multiplier for Indian media because it has not crept up on us like something invisible; we've seen it all play out in the West.

This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Bruno Mars, he's using Spotify, creating playlists and listening to music through it.

As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up.