Bryce Dessner Quotes

I do love the music aspect of the Internet. The Internet made me.

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.

SoundCloud was my first break I guess. I got a little bit of a following.That whole bedroom producer genre was kind of kicking itself into gear, and SoundCloud was becoming more of a hub for producers at the time.

I try to keep track of what the kids are doing on Soundcloud, and all the new guys coming up.

I created the Soundcloud big bang; you already know what's going on.

Technology has made music ultimately more democratic.

I have been working and composing music since 1986. Over the years, I have seen our music industry go through all kinds of transformation.

Communion was born out of shared frustration in 2006. We felt that although the likes of MySpace and YouTube opened up the playing field for songwriters online, people's discovery of these new artists was only skin deep.

I'm embracing new technology to record my songs, and it's a wonderful way to interact with people who love Whitesnake and help spread the gospel of the 'Snake, and I'm having fun doing it.

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

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.

I wish I had time to listen to music more.

My passion is music, you know, and music influences culture, influences lifestyle, which leads me to 'Roc-A-Wear'. I was forced to be an entrepreneur, so that led me to be CEO of 'Roc-A-Fella' records, which lead to Def Jam.

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

I found Beam when he was 16 years old. He dropped his SoundCloud page onto my Facebook. 'I listened to it and was like, these tracks are actually dope.'

I'm trying to help Apple Music be an overall movement in popular culture, everything from unsigned bands to video.

I've played music since I was six, and I always wrote songs just for myself. I did it for fun, posting songs on Tumblr, Bandcamp, and Soundcloud. I didn't think anyone would notice.

I do think that one of the best effects the Internet has had on music is that it's allowed these false walls between different music communities to vaporize. We can see that this is a big, complex, interconnected web.

I feel like music itself is inspirational enough. Especially with the Internet. Not to sound like a shut-in.

Technology has changed the way we think about music.

I work in the music world in a kind of very multi-faceted way. I work around the world, in different genres.

My whole life, I've sung and listened to music, and since the beginning, I've had iTunes and used Apple Music for streaming.

I remember the first time my friend Colin Lewis, who used to be a judge with me on a show on MuchMusic called 'disBAND,' told me, 'I think I just found your next favorite artist to adore.' He sent me The Weeknd, and he was completely spot on. The Weeknd is literally on every playlist I have.

I'm always looking for great songs, and not being much of a songwriter, I depend on great songwriters to send them to me. I go through tons of stuff, and sometimes you just find material that kind of fits and becomes something special.

My husband is a former rocker and in charge of our humungous music collection, and I've recently been asking him for classical music.