Audience Quote by Steve Albini

You gotta remember: the record industry, in order for it to really thrive, has got to attract great people.

— Jimmy Iovine

Today's consumer is less interested in possessing things and more in experiencing them. That's something the music industry needs to get its head around.…

— Jimmy Chamberlin

The whole music industry has completely and totally changed from how it was. It's very, very different. When we started, there were loads of…

— Susan Ann Sulley

Music is so hard. It's a struggle to get people to care. It's hard to make an impact in today's world because people aren't…

— Juliana Hatfield

I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend that the record…

— Ian MacKaye

Everybody can perform, there are so many outlets. Musicians are no longer limited. In the past, the record companies made most of the money.…

— Jake Holmes

I was not part of the golden age of the record industry, when musicians and producers were making real money. So I have no…

— Gaspar Claus

The record business is changing a lot, and I don't think to the detriment of music - I think, if anything, it's helping music.…

— Steve Winwood

It seems like the record industry made so much crazy money in the 1960s that everyone wanted to get in on it. Now it's…

— Win Butler

And once the music is out there, when you're selling a record and selling music and people are going to do whatever they want…

— Patrick Carney

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

Everything has changed since I started recording in 1972. But the very things that have opened this industry, like the digital platforms to reach…

— Jeffrey Osborne