Accepting change Quote by Jay-Z

Back when Napster first came along, I started telling everybody Napster was like shooting yourself in the foot because you're stealing music. The record…

— Butch Trucks

I don't think that old-fashioned idea of record companies exists any more.

— Anonymous

I've watched the dynamics of music completely change to where we've sold tapes, we've sold CDs, then everything started becoming 'music is free' now.…

— Chamillionaire

I think the music business is probably not happy with what we've done, because the people buying the record have actually got to pick…

— John Otway

Napster was a black market for music. Ninety-nine per cent of the music that people were downloading was illegal because they didn't have the…

— Chad Hurley

As I look back, I understand what [the record company] was getting at. They were trying to market a record and make it as…

— Michael Buble

Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.

— Dan Farmer

I have mixed feelings about Napster. I like what it can do for an unsigned band. It can help them sell 10,000 records. But…

— Shaggy

Before the whole [music] business was calibrated around the selling of records. I never could have imagined that live performance would become kind of…

— Arthur Fogel

Modern records are all made with virtually identical gear, software plug-ins and everything. Everybody wants everything to sound like the last thing that was…

— Dweezil Zappa

Turning music into digital was just a con, a record-company con.

— John Mellencamp

You used to make records, record companies sold them, and people went to record stores and bought them. That's all gone now.

— Joe Walsh