Able Quote by Ryan Merchant

Generally speaking, the business of music streaming is treacherous at best: Consumers don't seem to want to pay big money for access to digital…

— Jenna Wortham

The fact is that 'free' in music streaming is so technically good and ubiquitous that it's stunting the growth of paid streaming.

— Jimmy Iovine

The idea of a streaming service, like Netflix for music, I'm not totally against it. It's just we won't put all of our music…

— Patrick Carney

There's a lot of artists whose contracts are written in such a way that they do not get paid for what's happening on streaming…

— Sean Parker

The larger streaming grows, the less money there will be to get the music out there, which, to me, is the sad part.

— Justin Tranter

With Spotify and all those streaming services, you don't get paid anything. You have to be, like, Madonna or something to actually make a…

— Ty Segall

I really like streaming services. It's a great way for people to find your music.

— Kygo

The royalties from downloading are bad enough but the royalties from streaming are non-existent.

— Paul Young

I just think streaming feels like it's the future. It allows people to watch things in a way that fits into their lives.

— Tom Riley

Even if you have success on a platform, like YouTube, Instagram or whatever it may be, it's just not as glorified or well respected…

— Matt Rife

Streaming is something that's going to require tons of billions of dollars of investment, building server farms close to users and 5G and everything…

— Tim Sweeney

Ability to download music for free might not be positive for the artists to get royalties, but in some ways it's still good that…

— Afrika Bambaataa