Digital Music Consumption Quotes

Internet is radio for a lot of people. It's a place to get music and hear music, and no amount of clamping down will change that.

I think the consumption of music is at an all-time high. But I think the ways that record companies are trying to monetize it is just all over the place. At the end of the day, music is in the clouds. Before, you could hold it, look at it, turn it around. Now, it's just in the air.

I find the fact that so few people buy albums to be strangely emancipating. There's absolutely no reason for 99% of musicians making albums to think about actually selling albums. So as a musician you can just make an album for the love of making albums.

These record companies are going to be going out of business pretty soon, because people are just going to be downloading what they want to hear.

I wasn't a big fan of Instagram at first. I felt it was watering down the way music is perceived 'cause it made things seem more normal.

I'm not saying that kids today have everything, but with the Internet, it's like, you have it there, so use it! I know a bunch of kids who are into cassette tapes now. Cassette tapes suck! Why not use your iPod?

Luckily almost no one buys music anymore, so selling music doesn't really affect any of my professional decisions.

Record labels have enjoyed a 100-year monopoly of selling plastic and now they're up against a different format.

People don't buy records anymore. I don't know how people can support themselves.

Although I think it is wonderful to have the whole world of music available in something that small and to have it conveyed with such fidelity almost straight into the brain, I think the technology is also a danger.