Edgar Bronfman, Jr. Quotes

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• It's interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had.
• It’s the downside of a family business: anything good is because I’m somebody’s son; otherwise, I’m a schmuck.
• It strikes me as hubris that Universal will buy EMI. What it will do is create a super-major that will have far too much power...…
• And since discriminating fans can pick and choose exactly what they want to buy, artists and their labels are more conscious than they've ever been…
• Any time that you can give the consumer more of what they want, it's a good thing. I said from Day 1 that the unbundling…
• As my other obligations are beginning to take an inordinate amount of time, I have asked to step down as WMG's board chairman, effective January…
• By packaging a full album into a bundle of music with ringtones, videos and other combinations and variations, we found products that consumers demonstrably valued…
• Commercial success still hasn't come to an artist that isn't signed to a record label. There are very few artists that can succeed without the…
• Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very…
• If you look at the market cap increase in Apple since it created the iPod versus what's happened to the music industry, you have to…
• The iPod made music mobile, but today, how many devices do you need to walk around with? You want it on just one. And inevitably…
• We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right…
• You need to look no further than Apple's iPhone to see how fast brilliantly written software presented on a beautifully designed device with a spectacular…
• The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from…

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