Joan Jett Quotes

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.

A lot of what's happened with my career has been because of the Internet. It's a way for me to reach fans directly, especially with music.

The Internet had been a BIG help with my career. My advice to musicians, Internet is the key. It gets your music heard all across the world.

If your business is not on the Internet, then your business will be out of business.

When people are making the decision to put a piece of content online, they really do truly want to get it in front of the largest audience.

I had a blog where I tried to be transparent while giving away nothing. I tweeted and Facebooked badly. As a writer, your 'voice' is your calling card, yet my voice was becoming indistinguishable from billions of other voices.

I hate to think of a day where a compelling book or a compelling authorial voice would be lost simply because that person doesn't have a Web site. But I think that, to use the Internet in a positive way, to turn people on to reading, is something that authors shouldn't really shy away from necessarily.

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. I started with a website, Jasonmraz.com, pre-YouTube. You could e-mail me directly, and I would send you a CD.

A young artist can become popular more quickly with the Internet providing instant access to one's work.

It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.

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

I look at the Internet as an opportunity. I think you should do your stuff, and if you want to showcase it, it's a great platform. What people like and don't like is not in your control, so just have fun with it.

'X Factor' did a lot for me, but things truly started to take off for me when I went to social media.

I have noticed that videos in general are receiving less reach than usual. It's concerning because a lot of people depend on social media to showcase their work and reach new audiences.

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.

I play music as much as I can. I have a band called The Abiders. We've put out a couple of albums you can find on iTunes. We tour and all that stuff, so music is very much a part of my life.

The great thing about the Internet is, it has made it easier for people who are clever and resourceful to promote themselves.

I think that with the Internet, it has given a lot of people the opportunity to get themselves out there to the masses. But it's easy to group everyone that's on the Internet together. I try to cross and jump around between genres and different styles, kind of find my own niche.

For business, our internet love affair was a gift from the gods.

SEO expertise is a core need for today's online businesses.

The Internet gave a place like, 'Oh, I'll do whatever I want now. Nobody's going to see it anyways.' Oddly enough, people started watching and I got more confident, comfortable with it.

A young artist can become popular more quickly with the Internet providing instant access to ones work. That might lead to more opportunity and an accelerated career. But it seems as if funding may be harder to come by and filmmakers are being prompted to give away their work for free in hopes to become part of the conversation.

You can establish a presence on the internet; you can have just as much of a presence as a major company or anyone else.

There's so many celebrities now on the Internet and I feel that I was such a pioneer. Now everybody, your dog can have a website.

Sometimes as actors and artists, we don't really get to be an effective and integral part of the promotional process, other than doing interviews. With Twitter and Facebook now, and all of this stuff, it really allows us to play and have fun, vis-à-vis the pictures that I send out on Twitter every day, or little videos, or whatever it is.