Art Quote by Daniel Ek

I let go of so much stuff I hated about the industry. I didn't like what I'd seen, I didn't like what had happened…

— Jack Savoretti

Then, when the Depression came, all of this changed completely. Since that time, the entire public is of a very different sort and there…

— Elliott Carter

What's happened to the music industry, from my perspective, is a lot of great music is behind the wall that can't get through, and…

— Jimmy Iovine

The music industry has changed so much.

— Sisqo

The music industry has been hijacked by corporate interests, but the way music affects people and resonates with them hasn't changed.

— Michael Franti

The problem with music was always that the sound system often obliterated the words, and words, not music, have always been what I was…

— Lydia Lunch

As music became more profitable in the 1990s, it seemed like it attracted a lot of people who were just interested in the financial…

— Moby

There is a terrible conservatism, like a cancer, right in the heartlands of music-making, a tremendous resistance to change, an absolute horror of the…

— Charles Hazlewood

I'll be honest, watching the music industry collapse has been demoralizing and disheartening at times.

— Trent Reznor

In the '90s, the radio was still alive with all different kinds of points of view, and I think that's why people are longing…

— Shirley Manson

I feel like the rap metal at the end of the 1990s destroyed rock music for everybody and suddenly everybody felt like they had…

— Nate Ruess

I'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now,…

— James Taylor