Recorded Music Quotes

• Since the traditional recorded-music business models have drastically changed, there is truly diminished income derived from recorded music by artists - both current and catalog. The touring industry has become much more important as a majority revenue stream and the ancillary fan experiences and promotions that may be derived from it.

  Irving Azoff

  Artist, Important, Income

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• Some people only work to recorded music because it's so reliable and exactly the same every time, which is exactly why I don't.

  Mark Morris

  People, Music Is

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• Roy Orbison was one of the genuinely nicest persons I've ever known. With one of the most beautiful voices in the history of recorded music he could easily have had an opera star's ego, but he was one of the humblest, kindest, sweetest human beings to grace this planet. This in spite of the enormous tragedies in his life. A brave, beautiful blessing of a man.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Music, Beautiful, Stars

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• Being a man of taste and sophistication, the 80s were objectively, quantifiably, empirically, diagram-it-on-a-blackboard the worst decade in the history of recorded music.

  Steve Erickson

  Men, Taste, Diagrams

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Records can ruin you. That's why it's important to be as intimately familiar as possible with the history of recorded music, I guess. In a way, it's an argument for record collecting.

  Keith Fullerton Whitman

  Important, Records, Way

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• In a way, all recorded music is reduced to the same level, no matter what it is. You find it in the store, you put it on and, "Oh, that's not cool. That's gangsta rap. That's white supremacist punk." But in a way, the content is removed from the intention of the people that made it. That's the commercial level of music.

  Eyvind Kang

  Rap, Gangsta, White

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think the fact that Napster is stealing recorded music is something that we have to stop. It's taking money out of my kid's mouth. That is the way I look at it. It's inherently wrong. It's stealing.

  Art Alexakis

  Kids, Thinking, Looks

  "Does Napster Allow Theft on a Grand Scale or Just Innocent Swapping?". "Crossfire" with Tucker Carlson, www.cnn.com. February 12, 2001.

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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

  Mp3, Years, Get Better

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Recorded music is basically free now. I used to tour to promote a CD, but now I make a CD to promote a tour. I've moved on and live with the new reality, but I do get frustrated when people do dumb things.

  Peter Frampton

  Reality, Cds, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Recorded music has always been in a sense promotion for live performance, and some artists have discovered that giving it away is as effective as trying to sell it.

  Todd Rundgren

  Artist, Giving, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We all listened to a lot of recorded music, especially American jazz, modern jazz, and that's where our studies were and our inspiration came from.

  Evan Parker

  Inspiration, Jazz, Study

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• I started in a research lab for TV cameras, then I worked at a tape duplication facility. That was the first introduction for me to recorded music and hi-fi.

  Alan Parsons

  Tvs, Cameras, Tape

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In 1970, Americans spent about $6 billion on fast food; in 2000, they spent more than $110 billion. Americans now spend more money on fast food than on higher education, personal computers, computer software, or new cars. They spend more on fast food than on movies, books, magazines, newspapers, videos, and recorded music—combined.

  Eric Schlosser

  Book, Car, Video

  Eric Schlosser (2001). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Recorded music is more a marketing tool than a revenue source.

  Irving Azoff

  Marketing, Tools, Source

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• Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment of all genres and all recorded music, if you actually pay attention to it.

  Chuck D

  Rocks, Hip Hop, Culture

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• Record stores are the backbone of the recorded music culture. It's where we go to network, browse around, and find new songs to love. The stores whose staff live for music have spread the word about exciting new things faster and with more essence than either radio or the press. Any artist that doesn't support the wonderful ma and pa record stores across America is contributing to our own extinction.

  Joan Jett

  Song, Artist, Essence

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• There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between record labels, publishing companies and artists [about the compensation they get from streaming services] Spotify is returning a HUGE amount of money [to the record labels]. If we continue growing at our current rate in terms of subscriptions and downloads, we'll overtake iTunes in terms of contributions to the recorded music business in under two years.

  Sean Parker

  Artist, Years, Two

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