Jerry Only Quotes

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

The reality is that people think it's okay to steal music.

Books are so cheap and easy to get that people don't bother stealing them, which is the essential rule of piracy that the music business learned much too late.

Piracy has destroyed the domestic market.

Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal.

I guess I'm not saying that I think music should be free, but I do think that if people can get it for free, there's nothing anyone can do to stop them. It's kind of a waste of energy to try and force them to pay for it if they don't have to.

I'm not in favor of stealing music.

Stealing music is not right, and I can understand people being very upset about their intellectual property being stolen.

When I was three, my father was three. When I was six, he was six... he needed me to escape from being 50.

I want my children to have fantastic memories of their growing years, so I try to be as much a part of their lives as possible.

I know how messy things can get when adults overstep their boundaries and insert themselves - their politics, their fears, their prejudices, their ignorance - into the lives of young people.

When we started making mixtapes, we were just ripping stuff off YouTube and DVDs, naively thinking that because we were putting it up for free, it was gonna be fine.

I think piracy itself is going to end up going away.

We have arguments [with my father] and we had a lot of arguments in the years when I was at Michigan.

The parents in the room know that texting is actually the best way to communicate with your kids. It might be the only way to communicate with your kids.

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

Most people still steal music.

Piracy doesn't kill music, boy bands do.

I've stolen music before, I don't know anyone who hasn't. But if you're gonna do that, I want you to be able to have an opportunity to know the real lyrics because I really hate it when people put up wrong lyrics online.

I was an adult when I was supposed to be a kid. So now I'm an adult and I'm acting like a kid.

I think record companies are criminals.

Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?

We can plant a house, we can build a tree.

Mothers can get weaned as well as babies.

You can't ask someone who is not making that kind of money to go to the record store and buy an album when someone down the street has the same record with same sound quality for $5.