Quotes About Technology

Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software.

Music is much more of a multimedia sort of thing than I expected.

If I knew I was going to die at a specific moment in the future, it would be nice to be able to control what song I was listening to; this is why I always bring my iPod on airplanes.

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

When you think of Napster, you think of music. But the first thing that struck me was that this was an important case not only for the music industry but for the whole Internet.

I'm not an anti-online person. I get what the modern world's about and I understand that that's the nature of music dissemination.

As so much music is listened to via MP3 download, many will never experience the joy of analog playback, and for them, I feel sorry. They are missing out.

Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.

Everyone wants to talk about it, and right now music, flat-panel televisions, a whole host of new handheld devices are fun to talk about and very exciting to look at.

I am amazed at radio DJ's today. I am firmly convinced that AM on my radio stands for Absolute Moron. I will not begin to tell you what FM stands for.

That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.

Maybe one day there will finally be an education for electronic music.

Pagers are my life--I try to get them in to our music as much as possible.

I think Sean Parker damaged the music business with Napster.

This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Bruno Mars, he's using Spotify, creating playlists and listening to music through it.

An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it.

I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.

In a way the new music showed things could be transformed by new channels of communication.

Simply handing over your iPod to a friend, your blind date, or the total stranger sitting next to you on the plane opens you up like a book." (Steven Levy)

My instrument is the studio. When I play my instrument, I'm creating music using the studio. All the other instruments serve it.

Radio and TV can still push a band, but things need to be shaken up. There is the Internet, but mostly what I see there is little kids on YouTube playing music.

I'm not the most technically savvy person in the world. Like, I'm not good at troubleshooting when stuff happens to my digital music.

[Kids today] think "Grease" is just one long music video. So they watch it over and over again the way we, when we were kids, we listened to albums.

I'm against people downloading music.