Music Streaming Services Quotes

I feel my job as an artist is to drive people to country radio. That's my job as a country artist. So these streaming places, especially these on-demand streaming places, where you can just push a button and hear it as many times as you want, like YouTube, any of that stuff, that's taking all the ears away from country radio.

On Sirius, I can find anything I want. They have about four or five different metal channels, rock channels; there's a whole Elvis channel.

I spend a lot of time working and with my family, so I don't have much time around the edges to do much else. I don't really listen to a great deal of music. I love music, but since I spend a lot of time in the studio, we probably watch a movie rather than listen to albums. I get to hear stuff, but not on the grand scale.

I imagine if Spotify becomes something that people are willing to pay for, then I'm sure iTunes will just create their own service, and they're actually fair to artists.

I don't like listening to music. I'm not a music fan.

The music industry is in such poor shape; it's in a really bad way, and a lot of people in the industry are very depressed.

Companies like Spotify, the new Apple service, and all the others are really going to have to pay artists more. And I think it's a matter of time; I think a lot of these companies and the individuals that are involved in them realize that as well. They know that artists are not getting what they should be getting.

No. 1 records are fine, but in 2016, they just don't mean as much any more - the currency has changed.

It's hard to find vehicles for your music.

There are no record companies in Waikiki.

What I saw in the record industry is it's just getting more restricted, more restricted, more restricted to where everyone's trying to figure out what kind of song to make to get on the radio: that's researched and where advertisers are telling you what to play.

When I think about music in the future, I don't make a distinction between what's radio, what used to be the music library, and so on.

'Heart on Fire' didn't do as well as the last record in most territories, but South Africa is one of the places it did really well.

From the artist's standpoint, are you getting more from streaming than you used to, prior to the days of the Internet? No - and I don't know if those days are ever going to come back - but at least, technically speaking, it's the legal way to do it.

If you look at something like Spotify, many record labels are investors in the company. So from that standpoint, the money is all going back into the labels.

The Internet has changed how young people listen to music. Television programs like 'American Idol' changed how people listen to music. It was no longer the songwriters that we celebrated; it was the singers.

A long time ago, Prince said that no musician is ever gonna make money off the Internet, and he was right.

Streaming is a really big market for me. We've been doing great in the streaming market, so it's not something I want to alienate at all. Streaming counts now. They're treating artists the way we deserve to be treated.

I don't think holograms are the future in the music industry.

The record business sucks!

If you get 100 million streams on a song and you're only being paid on 20 percent, the check's not going to look good. The money's not going to look fair.

I'm really interested in the record industry and the artists and the problems they're having.

From 1969 to 1973, I was never played on radio stations.

The larger streaming grows, the less money there will be to get the music out there, which, to me, is the sad part.

I don't have an iPod. I don't get the whole iPod thing. Who has time to listen to that much music? If I had one, it would probably have Sinatra, Beatles, some '70s music, some '80s music, and that's it.