Able Quote by Girl Talk

It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know…

— Tom Petty

I feel like music should be recycled. You take what you get from whoever you get it from, and you put you in it.

— Scarface

The fact that file sharing goes on, and is as popular as it is, is an incredibly positive thing for the music industry. The…

— Dave Rowntree

I'm mostly fine with anyone using my music for whatever. Everything's just compost that gets reused.

— Phil Elverum

The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn't happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it.

— Ben Folds

We are passionate about making it so that users enjoy the music that they want to enjoy but at the same time fairly compensates…

— Daniel Ek

Music is everywhere - you consume it every day, everywhere you go. The content creator should be compensated. It's only fair.

— Jay-Z

“Creative Commons has a lot to offer to the entertainment industry provided it is strategically merged with copyright commercialization strategy”

— Kalyan C. Kankanala

People think that it's their sovereign right to download music and not have to pay for it.

— Johnny Kelly

There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.

— Prince

We as a music ­community have our own issues about advocacy, copyright, intellectual ­property, being paid fairly for the work that we do.

— Neil Portnow

Stealing music is not right, and I can understand people being very upset about their intellectual property being stolen.

— Steve Jobs