Mp3 Quotes

• Unauthorized use of these MP3 files is really creating a problem for artists in the music community.

  Hilary Rosen

  Artist, Creating, Community

  "MP3 revolution splitting music industry along cyber lines". December 16, 1998, www.cnn.com.

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• I use computers for email, staying current with my own website as well as finding important information through other websites. I also use it for creating MP3 files of new music I'm working on.

  Clint Black

  Creating, Important, Use

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• Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning.

  Rob Sheffield

  Song, Morning, Years

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• A great song is a great song, whether it's on vinyl or CD or cassette or reel to reel or mp3. Then again, that might be an overly optimistic view, but I do think that great music will transcend the medium in which it is delivered.

  Moby

  Song, Optimistic, Thinking

  "Is Moby's Music Still Good When Its Free?". "Day to Day" with Alex Chadwick, www.npr.org. March 31, 2008.

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• We live in the digital age and, unfortunately, it’s degrading our music, not improving it  It’s not that digital is bad or inferior, it’s that the way it’s being used isn’t doing justice to the art. The MP3 only has 5 percent of the data present in the original recording. … The convenience of the digital age has forced people to choose between quality and convenience, but they shouldn’t have to make that choice.

  Neil Young

  Art, Data, Justice

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• I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.

  Beck

  Sound, Lost, Translations

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 10, 2012.

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• The rawness and the richness of music on vinyl almost went away, but it still seems to be on a lot of people’s radar, and for good reason. It does something different than more accessible means of music playing, like MP3 players and downloads and whatnot. You get in front of these archaic contraptions that go ’round and ’round.

  Billy Gibbons

  Mean, Player, People

  "Interview: ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons and the Black Keys' Dan Auerbach". Interview with Ted Drozdowski, www.guitarworld.com. November 13, 2012.

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• I'm not stupid, I realise selling it is not as important as it used to be that way, I think it's more important to get your music out there and if people want to hear it an mp3 form or whatever I'm fine with that, I just don't enjoy the sound of it at home for personal taste.

  Butch Walker

  Stupid, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.soundscapemagazine.com

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• An mp3 is a compressed form of data. It's not the full spectrum. It's never going to sound as good as a record.

  Annie E. Clark

  Data, Sound, Records

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Because music wasn't free yet, they wouldn't really offer MP3s so you had to buy things to see if you liked it or not. Which is crazy if you think about how much music you bought and then didn't even like the stuff. It was a different world where bands made money off their music.

  Marnie Stern

  Crazy, Thinking, Different

  Source: thequietus.com

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• When we were kids, growing up in the sixties, the only images we had of ourselves were either still photographs or 8mm movies.... Now we have video, digital cameras, MP3s, and a million other ways to document ourselves. But the still photograph continues to hold a sense of mystery and awe to me.

  Catherine Opie

  Growing Up, Kids, Video

  "The Drive to Describe: An Interview with Catherine Opie". Interview with Maura Reilly, www.americansuburbx.com. 2001.

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• As so much music is listened to via MP3 download, many will never experience the joy of analog playback, and for them, I feel sorry. They are missing out.

  Henry Rollins

  Sorry, Joy, Missing

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• MP3 players and flash memory devices are good for data storage and playback of music and digital talking books, but they offer little or nothing in the way of visual presentation of information and communication.

  Tom Peters

  Memories, Book, Communication

  Source: www.researchgate.net

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• I love every type of listening format, from MP3s to CDs to vinyl. There's something special about each one. It's a sign of the times. I love looking back, and even putting new music on vinyl - if it's right!

  Brendon Urie

  Cds, Listening, Special

  "Interview: Panic! At The Disco's Brendon Urie On His New Album, 'Death Of A Bachelor'". Interview with Pip Williams, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 22, 2016.

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• If you're going to download an MP3, as a recording, it's sort of like an archive of something that has happened - that has a beginning and an end and can be released. The infiniteness escaped.

  Tristan Perich

  Archives, Ends, Downloads

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'll also listen to music on a Discman and realize how nice it can sound when it's not compressed to MP3 format.

  Alexis Taylor

  Nice, Sound, Realizing

  "Hot Chip". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 8, 2012.

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• Vinyl's just a fun endgame step. I work with analogue signal chains too, but the mp3 is the way I listen to music.

  Tim Hecker

  Fun, Way, Steps

  Source: thequietus.com

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• In the age of the mp3, you gotta make the package special, something that's worth owning.

  Zach Condon

  Special, Age, Packages

  "Beirut". Interview with Marc Hogan, pitchfork.com. August 31, 2011.

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• The collectability of music is something lost in the age of MP3s and album downloads. Holding an album in your hands and having the full-sized artwork reconnects the artist and the listener.

  Mark Hoppus

  Artist, Hands, Age

  "A Different Spin with Mark Hoppus!". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. September 8, 2010.

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• Selling MP3s or physical copies, it's still cool, but I think it's slowly becoming outdated to where people just want to build a culture. The culture's what you're selling at this point.

  Diplo

  Thinking, People, Culture

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My favorite method of encryption is chunking revolutionary documents inside a mess of JPEG or MP3 code and emailing it off as an "image" or a "song." But besides functionality, code also possesses literary value. If we frame that code and read it through the lens of literary criticism, we will find that the past hundred years of modernist and postmodernist writing have demonstrated the artistic value of similar seemingly arbitrary arrangements of letters.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Song, Writing, Past

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Every single year since they invented sound recording it gets better and better. We've always improved it. With MP3, which just sounds awful, it's the first time in the history of recorded music that it sounds worse. It's really - and it's everywhere, it's ubiquitous.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Years, Get Better, Sound

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Every purchasing decision involves a trade-off between what I call fidelity and convenience. Fidelity is the total experience of something - how great the experience is. Convenience is how easy it is to get something. A live concert is a high fidelity way to experience music; an MP3 file is a high convenience way to experience music. Depending on the situation, one or the other is probably pretty appealing. What's not appealing is something that offers neither.

  Kevin Maney

  Live Concerts, Decision, High Fidelity

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I think it's pretty obvious to most people that Napster is not media specific, but I could see a system like Napster evolving into something that allows users to locate and retrieve different types of data other than just MP3s or audio files.

  Shawn Fanning

  Thinking, Media, Data

  "Q&A: Napster creator Shawn Fanning". Interview with Giancarlo Varanini, www.zdnet.com. March 3, 2000.

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• People will have MP3s of every Miles Davis' record but never think of hearing any of them twice in a row - there's just too much to get through.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Thinking, People, Records

  "Dithering: Jonny Greenwood". Interview with Sasha Frere-Jones, www.newyorker.com. September 1, 2009.

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