Martie Maguire Quotes

We're not trying to change the world; just music.

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.

You really can change the world if you care enough.

Pop music has progressed.

There's no how-to guide for how to change the world. But it's easy to get hung up by misconceptions about what it takes to make an impact.

The difference between me and other people in my generation is instead of saying the Internet's killing the record business, I say, 'Who cares about the record business, the Internet is enhancing music.'

I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities you can change the world.

I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.

The game is changing with songs like 'Earned It' as opposed to it changing me.

The music industry the last 120 years has been insane. It's just continual chaos. So it's not unusual that something like the Internet comes around, but as one door closes another one opens, and that certainly is the case where now, artists can have a lot of control over how they display to the world, all at once, their new record.

I criticized the whole American songwriting industry and the pop side of it and I was bitter about it. And I stepped back and thought 'Why are you bitter? You can't just stand there like every other indie musician and criticize this so-called 'generic' music when you're not doing anything to challenge that.'

In the music business, especially the country music business, every 10 years or so you're going to have this changing of the guard, this wave of new artists that comes in.

I think no matter how you think about your music, you're ultimately in the music 'business.' I think you have to be business-minded in some sense. And for me, the real goal... is positive intention and social change through music. It doesn't mean that can't turn a profit.

I'm trying to change the world.

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.

I still like to play the guitar, but I rarely have anything to do with the music business these days. I mean, there is no music business anymore, is there?

Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.

I think a lot of people came into rock n' roll to try to change the world. I came into rock n' roll to make music.

if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

What did you do to change the world today?

I came along with that crowd of singer-songwriters who were able to make their own statements in such a personal way that it changed the industry: Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Sly and the Family Stone.

Instead of trying to change people, we could change the world.

The world of music is changing so dramatically every day, the way people hear music. It's different. It's a new day and requires new thinking.

I am here talking to 'Rolling Stone' because of an iPhone. Music has transformed because of Apple.