Yngwie Malmsteen Quotes

We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.

I think as far as the music industry is concerned, it's kind of been the wild, wild West in a way with the Internet, which is not necessarily a bad thing to me.

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.

I've been through the music industry and with the Internet the music industry is not what it used to be.

Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.

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.

I don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot - the methods of releasing music.

I have watched music go from an art form into an industry. And I have watched it stop dead in its tracks because of the digital age.

The music industry is transforming fairly rapidly.

I really like streaming services. It's a great way for people to find your music.

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

The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer.

Distribution has really changed. You can make a record with a laptop in the morning and have it up on YouTube in the afternoon and be a star overnight. The talent on YouTube is incredible, and it can spread like wildfire. The downside is that it's very hard to convince the younger generation that they should pay for music.

Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.

The music business has changed incredibly. There used to be 50 record companies. Now there's only three, and it's just getting smaller and smaller. But then again, you have the Internet, so anybody who has music can get it out there.

Kids don't go out and buy CDs, they make their own, they download them from the Internet.

The difference between me and other people in my generation is instead of saying the Internet's killing the record business, I say, 'Who cares about the record business, the Internet is enhancing music.'

It's made music more accessible with YouTube and the ability to trade audio files. But it hasn't made it more popular.

I'm into it, I'm into MP3's; I think there's no way you're ever going to be able to legislate people having to buy a record in order to listen to it. You have to look at it as a means of promotion, and if the music is good enough, promotion is a good thing.

You used to make records, record companies sold them, and people went to record stores and bought them. That's all gone now.

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

I'm not saying you can't be successful in the music industry without Spotify. But when I look at the future of music, I don't think scarcity is the model anymore. We have to embrace ubiquity - that music is everywhere.

The Internet has been a godsend and a nightmare for the music industry.

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

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.