Hilary Hahn Quotes

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.

There's a sea of music out there, but there's no curation for it.

I'm very excited about my new Spotify account, which gives me access to twenty gazillion songs any time, all the time. The day I opened my account, though, I sat there perplexed. How would I figure out what I wanted to hear?

I kind of date my musical discovery back to when I was 13 years old, getting my iTunes account and using that as a major tool to discover new music.

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

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

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

I think when you go to a store and you go to the Justin Timberlake page and stream it from there, that's great, but that means you went to the store. iTunes Radio lets you discover it without you having to think about it.

I think the Internet is an awful lot like FM radio was when it broke out in the late '60s. It's kind of a wild and wily kind of format. They could play 20 songs in a row that had the word 'blue' in them, or whatever they wanted to do.

The online musical universe has become Balkanized, with many sites focusing on minute niches. That works well for reaching very specific demographics, which is wonderful for advertising, but it flies in the face of the common wisdom that people's tastes have become more diverse as music of any description has become a mouse-click away.

You know, I have a really tough time finding new bands.

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

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.

We created Apple Music to make finding the right music easier for everyone - men and women, young and old.

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.

Spotify was one of the first services that actually focuses on the consumer because they don't have to spend hundreds of dollars a year on music.

You can never stop discovering music.

Don't get me wrong: there are aspects of buying music online that I love. Instantly being able to hear a song the moment it crosses your mind? Where's the downside? However, I do feel for those too young to remember the thrill of going record shopping.

Sometimes, you can't seem to find any song on the radio that you like.

YouTube is an amazing platform for young musicians - although it's harder to get noticed now that everyone is on it.

Someone asked me the other day what my favourite record shop was, and I said YouTube.

I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

When I use the Internet, it's pretty much strictly for music. Checking out other people's web sites, what's going on, listening to music. It's pretty much a musical thing for me.

YouTube is a good way to discover new music now because it comes up with that thing at the side with other artists you might like.

The difference between Spotify and Internet radio services like Pandora is that Spotify is interactive. You can sample the complete catalogue of most artists' recordings.