Music Industry Transformation Quotes

The Internet has been a godsend and a nightmare for the music industry.

The Internet has killed the traditional record business, but it's given back in the way of instant access.

To see a lot of the smaller labels disappear or get gobbled up by the bigger labels, that's a shame. It was a bit of a shock at first to see the demise of the record stores.

I think, basically, the music industry is scattered and in a mess. I think you've got lots of people that are so-called 'experts' that have no idea where it's headed.

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.

Ten, 15 years before, the Latin industry was singing Anglo music, trying to get an opportunity with them. Everything changed, and now around the world everyone is listening to our Latin music.

I'll be honest, watching the music industry collapse has been demoralizing and disheartening at times.

With Soapkills, we were lucky. We started at a time of transition where things were not ready, nothing was available.

I was part of the first wave of singer/songwriters but I was also in that first wave of singer/songwriters who experienced the music industry when technology started to take over.

It's all downloading. As a matter of fact, within five years, there will be no CDs.

I feel fortunate to have made records during an era where people actually bought music. But I have friends in struggling up-and-coming bands now that will certainly never be able to pay the rent, because music has been devalued.

Technology has altered the way music sounds, how it’s composed and how we experience it. It has also flooded the world with music. The world is awash with (mostly) recorded sounds. We used to have to pay for music or make it ourselves; playing, hearing and experiencing it was exceptional, a rare and special experience. Now hearing it is ubiquitous, and silence is the rarity that we pay for and savor.

I don't think we see ourselves as the savior of the music industry.

When the music business failed to embrace the Internet, I thought it was game, set and match for the industry, and I quit.

The greatest thing that ever happened to (my career) was the breakdown of the record companies, because there were no more stupid questions about how many hits are on the next record. It was very liberating.

The facts show that the music industry was much better off before Spotify hit these shores.

It was such an amazing time for music in the Sixties. When popular music hit me, it was like magic was in the air.

If Apple's a technology company in the music industry, why can't somebody in the music industry make technology?

The music business has made a 360. It's a whole 'nother game. It's not nearly what it was. And I fear for it, because, you know, with the advent of the computer and online and downloading and all these things, they have destroyed - that stuff has destroyed the record business, not the music business, but the record business. The music business is well, and it's alive and thriving. Now, I hope something happens to turn it back around to the point whereas it's - you're earning a living from writing your songs, from your work, you know, because it's not like that anymore.

Coming from the era of vinyl you could argue that everything went wrong in the music business the moment we went digital. The day the first CD came out, it all went downhill in the music industry. Digital destroyed everything.

The thing that scares me about the way the music industry has changed so much is that I'm afraid that the record, the album, will disappear, and it'll go back to the way it was in the '50s where everything is single-based.

It seems like the record industry made so much crazy money in the 1960s that everyone wanted to get in on it. Now it's just become very corporate. So all of these people who despise music end up being in charge.

I think that's what happened to the record business when 'Napster' came around. The industry rejected what was happening instead of accepting it as change.

It will be only a matter of time before the music business establishment completely folds.

The great artists of music have always innovated and boldly changed the game, but the industry itself has not.