Music Copyright Quotes

I truly believe, as an institution, most major labels should just die.

There's no problem with fans and bands. There's a problem with the economics of the outside disruption of the industry.

I have been working and composing music since 1986. Over the years, I have seen our music industry go through all kinds of transformation.

With the advent of radio and recording, music became an industry rather than just a tradition.

I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there.

I used to read music books when I was 13. My mom was working at a library. She's a librarian. I would get my mom to check out any kind of books that had anything to do with the music industry. I read a lot about royalities, publishing, marketing, stuff like that.

I think the music business is as crass and as unrewarding as it has ever been.

With music, you've got to find ways to get paid again, 'cause all the cool kids in junior high school and high school, they think you're wack if you pay for music.

Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money, they should take a look at some of their six-figure executive expense accounts. All those lawsuits can't be cheap, either.

I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.

There are musicians who want to make a living making music. There are listeners who want to listen to music. Complicating this relationship is a whole bunch of history: some of the music I want to listen to was made a while ago in a different economy. Some of the models of making a living making music are no longer valid but persist.

I don't even want my music on mainstream radio. They don't deserve it. They destroy careers.

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.

The music industry is transforming fairly rapidly.

I don't get involved in record label politics.

I can't tell you how many things I've worked on where I sat on it for a few years, and then somebody else did something very similar. Whether it's some weird vocal effect you hear on another record, or a drum beat, or even a song title, a subject matter, or a mixture of different kinds of music.

But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.

I don't believe every download is a lost sale.

Everyone has learned how to monetize music except the music industry.

We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us.

If I hear a song that I like, my first instinct is to find out about who made it.

Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works.

Anyone who knows anything should know you cannot take a master track of a recording and write another song over the top of it. You just can't do that. You can call it a tribute or whatever you want to call it, but it's against the law. That's a problem with some of the younger generation, they don't understand the concept of intellectual property and copyright.

The 'music industry' is not a term I use. I tend to concentrate on music, and the music business is something different.

Music is not free to make. Studios are going under because people now work at laptops. Quantity over quality is what begins to happen; the idea of what quality is has changed.