Paul F. Tompkins Quotes

You can put your music out on YouTube and get messages from all over the world.

Also there's two sides of it, I mean, a band like us, at our level and the way we have to promote ourselves and usually radio just completely turns their back on us, at the same time I think Mp3s help promote us somewhat, spreading the word about the album and stuff.

There's only so much you can do on a physical level trying to tour or pass out mixtapes. Although that matters, I realized that you can reach more people putting your music on Soundcloud and networking with blogs to write about you. It really comes back to the music and what you release.

Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube have sparked a booming industry of so-called influencers - people with large-scale followings who are paid considerable sums by large companies to tout their products or ideas.

I wasn't into social media at all, but when I decided I was going to put out my own music, I said, 'Okay, I'm just going to post it.' And that's when it started its rounds on the Internet, and people started to take an interest in me.

As a technology guy, and someone in music, I'm on top of technology and social media.

I was always putting songs on the Internet, but I was never into pushing them on anyone.

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.

The Internet was a saving grace for promoting and exposing, and even creating. It's a parallel world to the music industry that already exists, and I'm glad to be a part of it.

Good bands won't get famous anymore unless they get really lucky.

I started tweeting with the first film I directed. I found it the best way to promote it and to connect to the audience, and since then, it's been very helpful.

I'll tell you who doesn't get enough credit, Soulja Boy. He was the first one to do something, post it, yank it down, and sell more records because of it.

I look at the artists as mini media companies, like if Beyonce is ESPN and Lady Gaga is Discovery.

I want to build a fanbase. I want people to like my albums even more so than singles.

I think what AEW has done on social media is impressive. I think the amount of interest they've garnered is impressive.

Digitization has altered the nature of the film industry. Social media, especially, has become a decisive factor in determining a film's box office success.

Anyone with a cellphone essentially is their own broadcast network. If you can build a reach for yourself, you're essentially an influencer.

While working for Diplomat Records, I helped several artists with their online branding and social media. Once I left the label, I worked directly with artists and noticed many artists were overlooked and underrated if they weren't in 'XXL' or 'The Source.'

It's cool to hear my songs on the radio. But for me, that's just a way to get more people to have the option of choosing my music.

In this day and age, though, no matter how many people you play for, if you're playing with a band like Blink, millions of people will see it thanks to YouTube and everything recording it.

I always knew I wanted to entertain people my whole life, I just didn't know exactly how I was going to do it until I was 16 and everything blossomed on SoundCloud.

I recorded my first song, 'Greetings,' and it got so much attention on SoundCloud. I was not expecting that.

I feel like Soulja Boy was one of the smartest when it came to connecting with your fans and taking that to another level.

When we first started in '04 or '05, that's when social media started to become a way to release music and connect with fans - and our fans were kind of at the forefront of that.

I posted some songs on MySpace, and right away people started asking, 'Where can I get a CD?'