Online Music Platforms Quotes

Digital technology has eaten classic radio as we know it. Independent stations with disc jockeys who chose their own music have all gone; it's these huge parent companies that own a hundred stations and then decide what we should hear.

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.

I had been writing songs for other people for a while, and I made a demo and I put it on my Myspace, which Perez Hilton found and blogged about on his site.

I think the consumption of music is at an all-time high. But I think the ways that record companies are trying to monetize it is just all over the place. At the end of the day, music is in the clouds. Before, you could hold it, look at it, turn it around. Now, it's just in the air.

I think that music has always been restricted to media. The LP is an antiquated form, and the CD is now an antiquated form, and there's no sense grieving. Music is forever, there will always be songs. It's exciting that we're not limited to the media any more. I don't hold a precious view of my work, that it exists outside of social constructs or the confines of a platform.

I do love the social-media aspect of working records nowadays. You can do a video and put it up on social media, and people check you out who would never check you out before. I think it's much cooler that you can just get the product right to the fans.

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 I could just have my music be played for many people no matter what method or way is used, I would reply that that is not the case.

I don't really listen to the radio too much. I know that one song, "Hotline Bling."

I love music, right? I can't say "I'm only going to listen to a physical medium," because there's a bunch of meaningful records that as a music fan I love that I would've never been able to access. So if I want to be part of something I have to get dragged along with technology.

Luckily almost no one buys music anymore, so selling music doesn't really affect any of my professional decisions.

Record labels have enjoyed a 100-year monopoly of selling plastic and now they're up against a different format.

Technology has taken its toll on albums in a tough way. The CD format and MTV really played havoc on artists.

I felt that making records in a traditional way - putting them out in the same way, wasting loads of money - was just a pointless exercise.