Jimmy Barnes Quotes

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.

The business has changed dramatically from what it was even just a few years ago. Music isn't even distributed the same way anymore. Even CDs are becoming a thing of the past. The Internet has made it easier to get my music out to anyone who wants it, but at the same time, I feel like we're losing the mystique.

These record companies are going to be going out of business pretty soon, because people are just going to be downloading what they want to hear.

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.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

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

One could work on a lot of albums such as 'Thiruvasagam in Symphony,' but with issues such as illegal downloading from the Internet and piracy, it is difficult.

The battle over Napster has divided musicians and industry officials.

The Internet has killed the traditional record business, but it's given back in the way of instant access.

The internet is a great thing but the worst thing that it brought to the music business was piracy and it's made making stuff available really difficult.

The Internet is the wrong direction for music.

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

I think I need to accept the fact that I am where I am today because fans have shared my music illegally and legally, but I wouldn't be here today without the Internet, so I can't speak out against it.

When the music business failed to embrace the Internet, I thought it was game, set and match for the industry, and I quit.

Books are so cheap and easy to get that people don't bother stealing them, which is the essential rule of piracy that the music business learned much too late.

SOPA has been described as hitting a carpet tack with a sledgehammer. But technology was a sledgehammer to the music industry, one that allowed digital distributors like Apple to grow rich.

I have a very difficult time getting the Napster world.

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.

The music industry is an interesting lens through which to look at change, because it has had such a difficult time adjusting to the digital age.

I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.

I think Sean Parker damaged the music business with Napster.

I've never supported this concept of going after Napster. I think the rock bands who fought this were wrong.

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

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

Music was everything. But what the digital revolution has done, with streaming services and downloads, is take the value out of music. When things lose value they lose their meaning.