Roland Orzabal Quotes

That's the beauty with music in the digital age: you're always one follow away from experiencing something new.

I'm always online looking for new music and things like that.

Spotify, Tidal, and even YouTube, to a degree, are vast and rich troves of music, but they primarily function as search engines organized by algorithms. You typically have to know what you're looking for in order to find it.

I always try to go where the excitement is, where the best music is. I don't care what kind of music it is. I go with the best artist we can find.

The Internet makes it easier to find good music I would have to say. The radio stations that play the kind of music you were talking about, I don't think me and Curt Smith would be that inclined to listen to. It doesn't really affect us and I certainly don't remember the last time I watched MTV.

With other people, you're always swapping music. Somebody is always listening to something you've never heard. It's a great way to hear all sorts of new things.

Bands are always told, 'Nobody wants to hear your new stuff - just stick with the meat and potatoes - that's what people come for.' That's only half-true. I know if I went to see U2, I would be thrilled if they did 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For,' but I'm equally as thrilled to hear their new stuff.

I would hate to think that some people have found themselves in a musical cul-de-sac and have ceased to explore new music, or at least music that is new to them, because they are so glued to the past.

I actually spend as much time listening to new music as to old. Probably more. I just try to get something out of it all.

The best way for me to discover new music is through YouTube, and through my readers emailing me stuff.

When I first debuted back in 2009, K-Pop was already starting to get bigger because of the Internet. And that's how I found it, because I'm not Korean.

With Spotify, I think people are discovering a lot of artists they might not discover otherwise.

If you want to hear good music, good music will always be found.

I think that this television medium, or whatever we call it now, is a really great frontier to turn people onto music - to new music or old music. It's a great platform where you've got people's ears, and you can throw something at them. I like to use it to the fullest that I can.

I'm in a car so much on tour that I often just ask my friends to DJ and ask them what they like. That's the best way I discover music.

I'm new to a lot of people, and I don't think anyone wants to listen to 16 tracks of a new artist.

PUP introduced me to so much more amazing music. They really shaped my sound.

I was totally a Bandcamp person.

I'm a musician and I listen to music all the time. If there's something out there where someone would tell me that I should listen to, I would listen to it.

I blame my parents for never introducing me to good music.

I always thought, if I wasn't racing, one of my dream jobs would be as a scout, going town to town and trying to find bands in all these little dive bars. That would be so much fun, discovering music that way as opposed to from your phone.

There's so many people doing interesting things with the Internet and technology, there could be so many ways of making music and listening to it.

But I feel like I developed my own love for hip-hop and rap music by myself. Just growing up and hearing new things. As you grow up, you begin to listen to new music that this kid is listening to, then you begin to like your own music, and start discovering it yourself.

The reality is, when I'm sitting in a hotel room at 3 in the morning, and I see something on the Internet that interests me in the form of a band I want to hear, I like the ability to just go online to iTunes and download it immediately.

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