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Recorded music is more a marketing tool than a revenue source. -- Irving Azoff
Some people only work to recorded music because it's so reliable and exactly the same every time, which is exactly why I don't. -- Mark Morris
We all listened to a lot of recorded music, especially American jazz, modern jazz, and that's where our studies were and our inspiration came from. -- Evan Parker
I started in a research lab for TV cameras, then I worked at a tape duplication facility. That was the first introduction for me to recorded music and hi-fi. -- Alan Parsons
Recorded music has always been in a sense promotion for live performance, and some artists have discovered that giving it away is as effective as trying to sell it. -- Todd Rundgren
Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment of all genres and all recorded music, if you actually pay attention to it. -- Chuck D
I think the fact that Napster is stealing recorded music is something that we have to stop. It's taking money out of my kid's mouth. That's the way I look at it. It's wrong. It's inherently wrong. It's stealing. -- Art Alexakis
Recorded music is basically free now. I used to tour to promote a CD, but now I make a CD to promote a tour. I've moved on and live with the new reality, but I do get frustrated when people do dumb things. -- Peter Frampton
Every single year since they invented sound recording it gets better and better. We've always improved it. With MP3, which just sounds awful, it's the first time in the history of recorded music that it sounds worse. It's really - and it's everywhere, it's ubiquitous. -- Linda Ronstadt
Since the traditional recorded-music business models have drastically changed, there is truly diminished income derived from recorded music by artists - both current and catalog. The touring industry has become much more important as a majority revenue stream and the ancillary fan experiences and promotions that may be derived from it. -- Irving Azoff
There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between record labels, publishing companies and artists [about the compensation they get from streaming services] Spotify is returning a HUGE amount of money [to the record labels]. If we continue growing at our current rate in terms of subscriptions and downloads, we'll overtake iTunes in terms of contributions to the recorded music business in under two years. -- Sean Parker
Roy Orbison was one of the genuinely nicest persons I've ever known. With one of the most beautiful voices in the history of recorded music he could easily have had an opera star's ego, but he was one of the humblest, kindest, sweetest human beings to grace this planet. This in spite of the enormous tragedies in his life. A brave, beautiful blessing of a man. -- Kris Kristofferson
I do think music sounds better when it's on tape and more simply recorded. -- Beck
Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music. -- Pat Metheny
Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next. -- Dan Hill
I was trying to actively get away from music, I guess. But I recorded a whole bunch of instrumental piano songs. -- Jens Lekman
Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing off each other. -- John Fogerty
In Jamaica, the music is recorded for the sound system, not the iPod. It's about experiencing music together, with other people. -- Michael Franti
I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right. -- Florence Welch
I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it. -- Joni Mitchell
One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'. -- Carla Bley
I rented a house, recorded the stuff in a house. Just took my time 'cuz sometimes it's just rush, rush, rush. I just wanna live and play music. -- Ziggy Marley
Records can ruin you. That's why it's important to be as intimately familiar as possible with the history of recorded music, I guess. In a way, it's an argument for record collecting. -- Keith Fullerton Whitman

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