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.
The single best thing that has happened in my lifetime in music, after punk rock, is being able to share music, globally for free.
My cousin used to make fun of me for liking stuff like C+C Music Factory. I didn't have any tapes; I just liked their song on the radio. We liked that because that was what we had access to.
I didn't even have a record player as a kid, so everything was down to radio.
We are passionate about making it so that users enjoy the music that they want to enjoy but at the same time fairly compensates artists. That's not the same as saving the music industry.
It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now.
I think music sharing of any kind is great.
There's so much beautiful music in the world, and the kids are getting robbed.
Music is a fundamental human right
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.
With Spotify, I think people are discovering a lot of artists they might not discover otherwise.
I was never a Lime Wire guy because it's too much hassle to find the song.
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.
You can put your music out on YouTube and get messages from all over the world.
I really like streaming services. It's a great way for people to find your music.
Free downloads is something that I like to do its just not as publicised and it is the future of music.
My problem is that we are all listening to music in a more disposable fashion.
The best thing about a platform like YouTube is that it helps musicians all around the world to reach such a vast audience.
Now that I have a thousand albums in my car all the time, I listen to more music. I was too lazy; I always had the same five discs in there. I'd never think to change it.
I personally stream or download from iTunes because I love the quick access that I have to music; I don't have to write down a list of songs that I like and then go to the shop.
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.
Gone are the days when you'd have to tune in to a mad illegal radio station late at night to be able to hear the rapper of your choice. That's all changed now. That's all gone out of the window. And I feel like I represent that change. I represent the era of iPods and Shuffle and things like that.
My mom was very religious. She might have let me buy records, but I assumed that she wouldn't.
If jazz education in our colleges were free to all it would provide thousands of good jobs in the music industry which has been taken over by corrupt millionaires and billionaires.
When you listen to music through Spotify, you don't own the song, even though you might be able to listen to it at any time.
