Art Quote by Irving Azoff

Everyone loves to criticize Ticketmaster, but the real asset of Ticketmaster is that it's the third-largest e-commerce site in America.

— Michael Rapino

So many venues are owned by these various different ticketing and promoting people, and they're all in bed with one another. It's no secret…

— Imogen Heap

We can't say to a Ticketmaster venue that says they want to use a different ticketing platform, 'If you do that, we won't put…

— Michael Rapino

It's a very competitive market. AEG has a ticketing platform, Stubhub has grown their marketshare, Vivid has come out of nowhere. It's not like…

— Michael Rapino

As a promoter, of course, you'd really want the people who pay for the tickets to come into your venue to really be even…

— Kristian Bush

Everything Ticketmaster stands for is what we're fighting against. They're just a small cog in a machine where the artist is at the bottom.

— Jeff Ament

It's a huge deal for us to have our own headlining tour and our name on the ticket.

— Matthew Ramsey

I think fans going to concerts expect more today in terms of meeting and things. It's cool - I get it because of how…

— Kellin Quinn

I'm not sure of what the potential power of the Web is, but it is something that is here to stay, so it needs…

— Rod Stewart

In early days of Live Nation, we really believed it was important to be a direct-to-consumer business, which the labels aren't and no promoter…

— Michael Rapino

Bottom line: As long as we can get people to keep buying tickets to the concerts and buying T-shirts, we'll be alright.

— Jelly Roll

This is tremendous. The labels have been saying all along that they can't compete with free, but there is a way to compete with…

— Jonathan Potter