Tionne Watkins Quotes

The music industry is in such poor shape; it's in a really bad way, and a lot of people in the industry are very depressed.

I'm really interested in the record industry and the artists and the problems they're having.

The record business has been so unpleasant and so bad for so long.

Spotify appeared nine years after Napster, the pioneering file-sharing service, which unleashed piracy on the record business and began the cataclysm that caused worldwide revenues to decline from a peak of twenty-seven billion dollars in 1999 to fifteen billion in 2013.

Recorded music is more a marketing tool than a revenue source.

Sheet music, recording, radio, television, cassettes, CD burners, and file sharing have all invalidated, to some extent, the old model of making a living making music.

When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record shop? But I think we all agree that radio stations are good stuff.

The record industry is a world within itself.

I don't relate to what's left of the music business. There doesn't seem to be any point to it anymore. The business that I grew up in and loved, we made records a different way - there were record companies, there were stores where you could buy albums.

With music, you've got to find ways to get paid again, 'cause all the cool kids in junior high school and high school, they think you're wack if you pay for music.

I think the music business is as crass and as unrewarding as it has ever been.

I don't need my fans to buy my music. My music is free, basically.

As a person, I've been in the business since 1969, and I never remember getting an honest count based upon how many records been sold for Burning Spear.

I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.

I truly believe, as an institution, most major labels should just die.

Look at music for what it's worth around the world and not just America. In other countries, people are still buying CDs and going to record stores. But in America, it's all about digital. The game is breaking down. But, look at me, you need to know how to play the game the right way.

Between the record companies being the way they are and the fact that people can just download one song instead of buying a whole album, it's hard to make a good living nowadays.

Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.

Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money, they should take a look at some of their six-figure executive expense accounts. All those lawsuits can't be cheap, either.

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.

Music files and downloading have indeed changed the currency of music to a great degree.

A long time ago, Prince said that no musician is ever gonna make money off the Internet, and he was right.

If I had to live on record sales, I'd be pushing up the daisies.

That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them.

Those record companies don't know what's happening at all.