Quotes About Technology

Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.

I look at radio as gone … Piracy is the new radio, that's how music gets around.

I use computers for email, staying current with my own website as well as finding important information through other websites. I also use it for creating MP3 files of new music I'm working on.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

It will lead many musicians out of the cul-de-sac they currently face. And those that do not understand will be cursed to make disposable music on laptops forever.

Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.

I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the computer.

Believe me when I say that some of the most amazing music in history was made on equipment that's not as good as what you own right now.

Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same.

Music is being treated as one big karaoke machine.

I know [canned music] makes chickens lay more eggs and factory workers produce more. But how much more can they get out of you on an elevator?

Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification.

The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?

If Apple's a technology company in the music industry, why can't somebody in the music industry make technology?

The reason music became so powerful to our generation is that it's art you can consume in your car, and we were driving around a lot.

Explicit material is available in a variety of forums - from popular music to television to the Internet.

I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.

As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.

We have always been thinking about different ways to perform electronic music, i.e. music made with machines.

I really believe in finding new ways to distribute my music.

It is interesting seeing young people these days and watching how unimportant music is in their lives compared with our generation.

Making music has gotten easier; selling it has gotten harder. Making music has been democratized, but the market is in the hands of fascists.

I feel like a Mac store! I have a Canadian iPhone, an American iPhone and an iPad. I'm constantly downloading music to iTunes.

I'd rather kill myself than work in the music industry today.