Amber Liu Quotes

Thanks to many great K-pop singers, the groundwork has been laid for more Korean songs to be readily accessible to an overseas audience via channels like YouTube.

I am glad to see K-pop really pop off and it's cool to see how it's become an international craze.

I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century.

I really like streaming services. It's a great way for people to find your music.

I'm active on social media because that's such a big reason why K-pop and Korean music performs the way it does.

America is very far away from Korea, so we were very impressed that people knew K-pop, let alone liked it!

K-pop has become such a global movement now... We can write a new history that was never possible before.

It's so crazy now with the Internet and being able to play shows to people who are actually interested in you. I still feel so lucky when that happens. Things just happen so fast.

My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world.

Radio and TV can still push a band, but things need to be shaken up. There is the Internet, but mostly what I see there is little kids on YouTube playing music.

I'd rather be just a Korean musician as opposed to, you know, a K-Pop musician.

I will bring more Korean dance moves and Korean songs overseas.

It can take the uninitiated a minute to realize that 'Gangnam Style' is satire.

I didn't expect major labels would embrace MySpace, and the original idea for music on the site was the unsigned bands, the independent bands.

I think the cool thing about being alive in 2017 is that you can literally put out music as soon and as frequently as you want to because of streaming services.

People are experimenting with streaming, with subscription services, whether it's a Spotify or a Pandora or a Rdio.

South America was amazing, very powerful. We didn't imagine they like K-pop there and they loved it!

I just want to share trendy music with my fans.

I think, Koreans, they're really hard-working people. They're really innovative, and they try new things all the time, so I think it's just a matter of time when everyone will know K-pop.

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.

K-pop itself is not just a music genre, but a whole cultural phenomenon.

You're not really taken seriously when you're on SoundCloud because anybody can upload. It's the same as standing on a street corner and trying to push your mixtape.

Once upon a time Americans didn't want to listen to Canadian rap and now Drake's the biggest rapper in the world.

I'm so grateful to Spotify for the enormous support to the reggaeton movement.

That's what I love about the Internet - instead of having to wait on radio to play your song or TV to play your video, I can use the Internet as a tool to get my music out earlier.