Music Sharing Quotes

When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!

I want more people to know who I am and I want to have the chance to tease my music a bit more.

Once you put songs out, they're not yours anymore. They're everyone else's.

I regularly go to concerts with my children sharing the music.

I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.

I knew it straight away when Twitter first came around, and also Facebook, where it was so easy to post, that this was another way to speak directly with people listening to my music. If they found my music and they like it, most likely they want to hear more from me and hear what I'm about. I've put an enormous amount of time into that and it's played out well for me.

The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one.

In the old days, people shared music; they didn't care who made it. A song would be owned by a village, and anyone could sing it, change the words, whatever. That is how humans treated music until the late 19th century. Now, with the Internet, we are going back to having tribal attitudes towards music.

Me releasing my music, if anything, is an opportunity to show the world my stories and tell the world my stories.

Some of my most important musical experiences were from a burnt CD with songs my friend downloaded for me at a terrible digital quality.

The single best thing that has happened in my lifetime in music, after punk rock, is being able to share music, globally for free.

MySpace is so much more about culture and about creativity and expression. So in other words, you go on MySpace and you can find music, and you can find video, and things about politics, and things like that.

It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.

If you're making music, you must want to turn other people on to it, whether you're number one in the charts or number 60. I don't know, that's a commercial thing, but just the fact that other people like you... there's no point in making music, otherwise. Otherwise, you might as well make it in your bedroom and leave it there.

When I grew up, there was a monoculture. Everybody listened to the same music on the radio. I miss monoculture. I think it's good for people to have a shared experience.

Music really is a way to reach out and hold on to each other in a healthy way.

If I had to play only for people who liked the music because they heard it on the radio, it wouldn't make me happy. That's why I'm working so hard to have, yes, a profile as an artist, but also a profile as a DJ.

When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,' then, well, good riddance.

I think that Napster is the greatest invention since sliced bread. Napster, to me, is liberation and freedom for artists.

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.

You're not just making music for your personal use no more, just making music for your homies around you; you're making music for people around the world. Kids in Alaska - like, you're making music for everybody. When I make music, I just think on a larger scale.

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.

It's one of my short-term goals, to be able to actually record music and release it simultaneously and not just hold on to it.

YouTube is an amazing platform for young musicians - although it's harder to get noticed now that everyone is on it.

I made my first mix tape when I was 14.