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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• Also there's two sides of it, I mean, a band like us, at our level and the way we have to promote ourselves and usually radio just completely turns their back on us, at the same time I think Mp3s help promote us somewhat, spreading the word about the album and stuff.

  Kenny Hickey

  Mean, Thinking, Two Sides

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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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• People want to buy mp3s but can't? Piracy ensues. Then Apple strong-arms the music studios into the iTunes store and music piracy drops somewhat. The same, I believe, is also happening with ebooks.

  Charles Stross

  Strong, Believe, Apples

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• I sampled a bit of stuff from my dad's collection. He has probably a bigger record collection than I do. I try to buy as much as possible, because I've never been able to keep an MP3 collection organized. I like to keep my computers as clean as possible.

  Girl Talk

  Dad, Trying, Records

  "Random Rules: Gregg Gillis of Girl Talk". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. March 12, 2007.

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• I think mp3s are great if you are unknown and trying to get started. It's a good way to get your music out and about. But for those who are established, it's not good at all.

  Crystal Waters

  Thinking, Trying, Way

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• What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution - this revolution - is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing.

  Bono

  Dream, Song, Believe

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• I strapped an MP3 player to one of those floor-cleaning robots. Call him DJ Roomba - little guy cruises around and plays music. What's hot, DJ Roomba!

  Aziz Ansari

  Player, Guy, Littles

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• I definitely believe people should pay for copyrighted works. And the laws are sufficient: They already require you to pay for copyright work. There's no confusion. The problem is...it's a heck of a lot easier to steal MP3s than to buy them.

  Jeff Bezos

  Believe, Law, Confusion

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• Frankly, I didn't know how I would react to Apple's over-hyped MP3 player until I used one. Now I would have a hard time parting with it: Consider me converted.

  Paul Thurrott

  Hard Times, Player, Apples

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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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• It doesn’t matter how long we’ve used something; all that matters is how awesome the thing replacing it is. MP3s and automobiles happen to be really, really awesome, whereas ebooks—at least so far—are fairly limited in their awesomeness.

  John Green

  Technology, Long, Matter

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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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• 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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• The Xbox 360 is the best game console ever designed. It's fast and powerful - games look as good on the 360 as on high-end PCs that cost six times as much. It's easy to navigate and has lots of useful secondary features - the ability to play digital video, stream MP3s, and so on.

  James Surowiecki

  Xbox, Powerful, Games

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