Being the best Quote by Matthew Sweet

So thats what I want to do with my music, I want to inspire people creatively and artistically to be free.

— Janelle Monae

Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for. It’s my opinion that…

— Taylor Swift

In this age when people expect to get their music for free, we have to work out how we can protect the rights of…

— Clive Davis

Being an independent artist, you have to find creative ways of getting your music to people.

— Carly Pearce

I believe that artists should be paid for their creativity. There's no other industry where people can come in and take what you create…

— Mark Hoppus

Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial…

— Billy Joel

Music business is not for everyone. But if you have it in you, you have that passion, if you have that energy in you…

— John Legend

The music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment. And…

— Taylor Swift

When people downloading records for free you start to think, "Is it worth spending all this money to make a record sound good, especially…

— Will Sheff

I'm just an artist that makes good music and has a good idea to make money off of that.

— Chamillionaire

Everybody should put out free music, sell yourself, not music. The music is the vessel, the music is your truth, the music gives you…

— Jesse Rutherford

We wanted to create an opportunity for people to share anything, on their own terms, revenue and all. Get away from the commerce side…

— Aaron Dessner