Steve Albini Quotes

People just want to have access to all of the world's music.

I think music sharing of any kind is great.

You have an entire generation of kids who grew up with the idea that music is something that you can download for free.

For me, as someone growing up in a working-class suburb in Stockholm, I couldn't afford all the music. So back in '98, '99, I was really thinking about how I could get all the music and do it in a legal way while at the same time compensating the artist.

There's a lot of people out there - like, a lot of people out there - that wouldn't know our music if it wasn't for Spotify.

I think streaming, in general, is democratising music in general.

The Internet made the world smaller, so it's easier for people to hear your music. You don't necessarily need a radio record.

I look at radio as gone … Piracy is the new radio, that’s how music gets around.

Internet is radio for a lot of people. It's a place to get music and hear music, and no amount of clamping down will change that.

The fact of the matter is that 40 years ago, unless you bought the record, you couldn't hear the music. It was such a narrow track in comparison to today.

As a musician, you want the music in as many hands as you can get it into. More importantly, I want people to get the music for the fairest price, and in the most convenient way. And that's really turned into iTunes when you're talking about selling albums.

The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that you can put on a shelf. And the idea of music, for me, is always about both the communication and the sharing of content. And so the interactive part is missing.

I went through my adolescence having this revelatory experience - I can have any music I want, and I can get it immediately. For me and for a lot of people I know, there's this musical eclecticism that happened.

File sharing is our radio; that's the way people hear our stuff.

Gone are the days when you'd have to tune in to a mad illegal radio station late at night to be able to hear the rapper of your choice. That's all changed now. That's all gone out of the window. And I feel like I represent that change. I represent the era of iPods and Shuffle and things like that.

Obviously, as the music business has suffered tremendously, with being able to illegally download everything, it's also become amazingly easy to find new bands, because everyone can put their stuff online. Even if you can't find a record label, you can find these awesome bands, all over the world.

There's no doubt that the ready availability of music online has created a thousand more opportunities than it's destroyed.

If you can use a search engine, you can find any piece of music that's been recorded for free. I'm not saying that's right, but it's a fact, and I'm surprised that more people don't accept or acknowledge that and try to adapt in some way.

You start to accumulate your library of music. You want that music everywhere - that's the point where we monetize. If you want portability, mobility, and access, then you buy it.

I think that people will always want music; I think that the form that they will get it in, or distributed to them from, and the price they pay for it is what's up in question.

It's made music more accessible with YouTube and the ability to trade audio files. But it hasn't made it more popular.

Spotify - I met those guys before they launched in America and was wildly excited about the idea. 'Wow, this is all the music in the world, for a flat fee.'

We look at the sharing of music as really, really important for our business.

The best thing about a platform like YouTube is that it helps musicians all around the world to reach such a vast audience.

You can have the power of your music on your cellphone and reach millions.