Music Quote by Paul Jarvis

One of the best things about Kickstarter and crowdfunding and the collapse of the music business is a lot of artists like me have…

— Amanda Palmer

What a strange thing - that musicians grant permission to places like Ubuweb, and then because it's free, it'll probably be listened to more…

— David Grubbs

Obviously, as the music business has suffered tremendously, with being able to illegally download everything, it's also become amazingly easy to find new bands,…

— Jorma Taccone

We started playing music from an early age and so we wasn't really aware of that side of it, the weird thing is the…

— Ville Valo

The labels can't do anything for a band anymore - they're stuck and they have no money and they're just holding onto contracts that…

— Tom DeLonge

The business of making music is changing so radically because of the Internet. It's become a lot more democratic in one respect, but in…

— John Rzeznik

We are not the band. I am me. Ralf is Ralf. And Kraftwerk is a vehicle for our ideas.

— Florian Schneider

Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster…

— Lars Ulrich

I can't wait to start something up myself that is actually about giving unsigned bands the exposure they deserve, especially when they travel so…

— Dan Hawkins

I remember at one point, with a previous release of mine, I stumbled upon a shareware site, and the total number of downloads was…

— Washed Out

Crowdfunding as an idea itself isn't new - bands have been doing it since the dawn of time.

— Amanda Palmer

The internet seems to be what a lot of independent bands are doing these days. They're bypassing the studio - the big studios, EMI…

— David Gilmour