Itunes Quotes:

I like buying iTunes. It's instant.

- Caitlin Rose

topic: Buying, Instant, Itunes

My problem with iTunes is that I don't have any say in how I'm represented on the site.

- DJ Shadow

source: "DJ Shadow’s Killer App". Interview with Stephen Robert Morse, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2009.

topic: Problem, Site, Itunes

I know you have 1000 great ideas for things that iTunes could do. And we have 1000 more. But innovation is not about saying "yes" to everything. It's about saying "no" to all but the most crucial features.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Ideas, Simplicity, Innovation, Itunes

Just six days after its release on iTunes, a record-breaking 33 million people have already listened to the album.

- Eddy Cue

topic: People, Albums, Records, Itunes, Records Breaking

My record producer [David Kahne] said the major record labels these days are like dinosaurs sitting around discussing the asteroid. They know it's going to hit. They don't know when, they don't know where it's coming from. But it's sort of hit already. With iTunes, and all of that.

- Paul McCartney

source: "Life for a man on the run". Interview with Kim Murphy, articles.latimes.com. June 3, 2007.

topic: Labels, Sitting, Records, Itunes

Steve Jobs gave a small private presentation about the iTunes Music Store to some independent record label people. My favorite line of the day was when people kept raising their hand saying, "Does it do [x]?", "Do you plan to add [y]?". Finally Jobs said, "Wait wait - put your hands down. Listen: I know you have a thousand ideas for all the cool features iTunes could have. So do we. But we don't want a thousand features. That would be ugly. Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying NO to all but the most crucial features.

- Derek Sivers

topic: Jobs, Independent, Hands, Record Labels, Itunes

Asked about the fact that Apple's iTunes software for Windows computers was extremely popular, Jobs joked, 'It's like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell.

- Walter Isaacson

topic: Jobs, Ice, Apples, Itunes, Ice Water

I get sick when I think about someone going to iTunes and downloading two songs off our album. It's not meant to be listened to that way.

- Mickey Melchiondo

source: "Dean Ween of Ween". Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. October 31, 2007.

topic: Song, Thinking, Two, Itunes

I grew up with the Beatles and they are still to this day my top band played in my iTunes.

- Greg Laswell

topic: Band, Grew Up, Stills, Itunes

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

topic: Artist, Years, Two, Licensing, Brewing

Apple already had everyone's billing information from iTunes... you could buy things just by typing in your password... That, for the first time, brought very, very easy payment to the modern software world. That, more than anything, is why there is a business for paid apps.

- Marco Arment

topic: Apples, World, Information, Passwords, Billing

As for my store, most artists' sites send you to a third-party storefront like iTunes, whereas we're disseminating it ourselves. I was always uncomfortable with the thought of sending somebody who came to my site to buy something to some other store. It just occurred to me, "Why can't we do this?"

- DJ Shadow

source: "DJ Shadow’s Killer App". Interview with Stephen Robert Morse, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2009.

topic: Party, Artist, Stores, Third Parties, Itunes

I have a little office in my house and it is an absolute pigsty but I know exactly where everything is and there are little things stuck all over the walls, and papers in in-trays and files I have saved on my computer and playlists I have made on my iTunes - things that take me to a place that I think is appropriate.

- Tom Hiddleston

topic: Wall, Thinking, Office, Playlists, Itunes

People don't listen to one radio station. On iTunes you can mix different worlds and bring country and pop and folk and live music together with a mass audience. I could have sung 'Easy' in a country way but I just sang it how I sing. I think it's a really nice blend.

- Natasha Bedingfield

topic: Country, Nice, Thinking, Itunes, Live Music

I think the Web is, you know, things like YouTube and stuff are absolutely where a lot of younger people are watching their TV on iTunes in the Web and YouTube, whatever. So, I think it's an important place to have a presence.

- Tina Fey

topic: Thinking, People, Important, Itunes

I went on iTunes and looked at versions of Christmas songs. Everyone has done them!

- Vince Clarke

topic: Song, Done, Christmas Song, Itunes

People want to buy mp3s but can't? Piracy ensues. Then Apple strong-arms the music studios into the iTunes store and music piracy drops somewhat. The same, I believe, is also happening with ebooks.

- Charles Stross

topic: Strong, Believe, Mp3, Strong Arms, Itunes

To me, the greatest thing in the world is downloading TV shows on iTunes because there are no commercials, and yet if I were a working stiff, I could never afford to do this. But I don't even think about money.

- Stephen King

source: Interview with Andy Greene, www.rollingstone.com. October 31, 2014.

topic: Thinking, Tv Shows, World, Itunes

I have done a bit of recording and the songs are available on iTunes, and I've got some nice comments. It's something I enjoy doing, but I'm not looking for a singing career any time soon. As long as one person gets enjoyment out of it, I'm happy to make it available.

- Tom Felton

topic: Song, Nice, Careers, Some Nice, Itunes

Do we have Steve Jobs to thank for the iPod and iPod shuffle? iTunes? I think so. He changed the way we hear and think about music.

- John Taylor

topic: Electronic Devices, Itunes, Shuffle

Files on iTunes - and thus iPods - are incompatible with everything else. Applications on iPhones may only be sold and uploaded through the iPhone store - giving Apple control over everything people put on to the devices they thought they owned.

- Douglas Rushkoff

topic: Iphone, Apples, Ipods, Itunes

We had the hardware expertise, the industrial design expertise and the software expertise, including iTunes. One of the biggest insights we have was that we decided not to try to manage your music library on the iPod, but to manage it in iTunes. Other companies tried to do everything on the device itself and made it so complicated that it was useless.

- Steve Jobs

source: Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.38, Prabhat Prakashan

topic: Ipods, Design, Trying, Industrial Design, Itunes

I'm just so happy and proud of everybody and what everybody's doing. From Curren$y doing decent numbers with the independent, digital release; from Asher selling 1.1 million-plus on iTunes with the single and almost at 200,000 [albums sold] now; Cudi got almost 4,000 BDS's a week; Mickey Factz doing the Rock The Bells tour; Blu signed a deal shortly after; Ace Hood had two very successful singles, another album getting ready to drop. Everybody's doing their thing, man.

- Wale

source: "Wale Talks Media Hate, Charles Hamilton & Celebrity Women". Interview with Ernest Baker, www.complex.com. June 4, 2009.

topic: Independent, Successful, Men, Itunes

You don't have to wait for a record company to tell you that you're good or to sign you. You can put your music out on itunes, youtube, soundcloud, so it's kind of a plus, I think.

- Shanice

topic: Thinking, Waiting, Records, Soundcloud, Itunes

In certain cases I don't want to sell tracks individually; I want to only sell the whole album. With simple things like that I just don't get any response [from iTunes]. I don't want to kill iTunes - I just want to offer my own retail experience in my own tiny corner of the Internet.

- DJ Shadow

source: "DJ Shadow’s Killer App". Interview with Stephen Robert Morse, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2009.

topic: Simple, Track, Albums, Itunes

I have a radio show on Sirius XM. I put it up as a free download on my Soundcloud and on iTunes. That's a portal for me once a month, to play songs I know aren't getting played on that station the rest of the week.

- A-Trak

topic: Song, Play, Months, Soundcloud, Sirius

To go see a band in a big venue is a difficult experience. I don't really like that too much. I'm not a guy who puts on iTunes and goes, "Oh, what's hot!" I don't need to.

- Andy Summers

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Itunes, Difficult Experiences

I stopped my iTunes festival set because someone fainted at the front. It felt like the right thing to do at the time but maybe I was being too sensitive.

- Rae Morris

topic: Festivals, Sensitive, Things To Do, Itunes

If you take a look at the way the premium content is monetized, there's a lot of different models out there. Sometimes you pay for an individual episode, for example on iTunes. Other times you pay for a subscription. And other times it's free ad-supported.

- Jason Kilar

topic: Looks, Pay, Way, Subscription, Itunes

Obviously there's Netflix, iTunes, and Amazon and all these other outlets. Fake It So Real is now on Fandor, and I think people have actually seen it there, which is fine.

- Robert Greene

source: "Performance as Documentary: An Interview with Robert Greene (Web Exclusive)". Interview with Erik Luers, www.cineaste.com.

topic: Real, Thinking, People, Itunes

I think that iTunes is opened up a whole new world to me, and I never thought it would. If you've got a day off in a hotel room, you can buy three albums and then they're there. It's kind of strange to have a relationship with that.

- Simon Taylor-Davis

topic: Thinking, Rooms, Albums, Itunes

I'm really compulsive with music. I listen too much, and I can't listen to one thing. I love iTunes Genius.

- Lady Sovereign

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Genius, Things I Love, Too Much, Itunes

I've got quite a varied iTunes, and I like to raid people's CD collections and take on their music.

- Oliver Sim

topic: Cds, People, Collections, Itunes

My books are offered through Podiobooks.com and the iTunes Music Store as free audio downloads. I don't sell them.

- Nathan Lowell

topic: Book, Audio, Stores, Downloads, Itunes

I buy digital music off of iTunes all the time. I Shazam something in an airport or in a club or something; I Shazam it, I buy it. I am fully digital.

- Richard Patrick

topic: Airports, Clubs, Digital, Digital Music, Itunes

Traditionally, when we lived here [in Portland], we have a record player in the living room, and there's lots of stuff playing, all different kinds of music. I don't listen to any of those Internet radio things. I have iTunes on my thing, but I've never bought a single thing on it. Except for "Call Me Maybe," for the kids or whatever. Carly Rae Jepsen.

- Stephen Malkmus

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Kids, Player, Portland, Different Kinds Of Music, Itunes

Breakup blackout is when you're so upset and you've been crying so much that you basically black out for a couple of days. You wake up to mascara caked on your face and empty ice cream cartons everywhere, and your iTunes has, like, four new really bad romantic comedies you've rented. And your friends are texting you, and for three days you're in this black hole.

- Rumer Willis

source: Source: www.elle.com

topic: Breakup, Couple, Ice Cream, Black Hole, Blackouts

What's that? My six song album entitled Bo Fo Sho is currently available on iTunes? With three songs that have never been heard on the internet? Uh, and if I try to pirate it for free I'll get AIDS? I would have guessed scurvy. Well, see you later ghost of Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.

- Bo Burnham

source: Song: I'm Bo Yo

topic: Song, Kings, Pirate, Dr Martin Luther King, Itunes

I love my iPad. I'll see television shows that I have missed and I'll download them through iTunes. If there is an older movie that I want to watch right away, I can download that movie and watch it.

- Joel Silver

source: "Producer Joel Silver Exclusive Interview: Discusses UNKNOWN, LOGAN’S RUN, Berlin, VOD, Home Video Sales, 3D, and a Lot More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 17, 2011.

topic: Itunes

I think the water cooler is more important than ever. "Oh, did you hear that 'Inside Amy Schumer' is fabulous?" Where do you find it? It's on Netflix, it's on iTunes, it's on places nobody ever heard of five years ago.

- Henry Blodget

source: Source: www.businessinsider.com

topic: Thinking, Years, Water, Itunes

And to be fair, most documentaries are half an hour too long, anyway. Let's not kid ourselves. Most movies are an hour too long. I will say that the internet has changed everything in terms of distribution and because of iTunes and other outlets like that, length is no longer something you really think about, in my opinion. It's irrelevant.

- Nicolas Winding Refn

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Kids, Thinking, Long, Itunes

I play music as much as I can. I have a band called The Abiders. We've put out a couple of albums you can find on iTunes. We tour and all that stuff, so music is very much a part of my life.

- Jeff Bridges

source: "Kam on Film: Jeff Bridges: ‘The Hell or High Water’ Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.theaquarian.com. September 7, 2016.

topic: Couple, Play, Albums, Itunes

I am in a business that's built on record sales and reputation and how your single is doing and where your song is on iTunes. But the kind of music that I do comes from my beliefs.

- Steven Curtis Chapman

topic: Song, Records, Reputation, Itunes

I had a period after touring the first record where I didn't agree with the way things worked in the music industry as far as how you release music, demand, the pace of everything. You don't know who's talking to you. Who's Spotify? Who's iTunes? Who are all those bloggers? Who says I have to do this? Why do you have to do all this press? Why do I have to do so many shows? Why do I have to do a regular album right now? I don't understand it.

- Lykke Li

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Talking, Way, Firsts, Spotify, Itunes

Occasionally when I'm procrastinating writing, I'll while away the hours on iTunes. You can just keep going forever and find these bands you'd never normally hear of.

- Marisha Pessl

topic: Writing, Forever, Band, Itunes

I've been able to find just as much interesting, exciting music through the Internet and iTunes... The personal interaction is not the same, and I'm not walking out of a store with a physical thing, so there's definitely an element that is lost, for sure.

- Colin Hanks

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Interesting, Elements, Able, Walking Out, Itunes

I imagine if Spotify becomes something that people are willing to pay for, then I'm sure iTunes will just create their own service, and they're actually fair to artists.

- Patrick Carney

source: "Black Keys Drummer Patrick Carney Calls Napster Founder Sean Parker an 'A--hole' for Stealing Royalties" by Portia Medina, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 26, 2012.

topic: Artist, People, Pay, Spotify, Itunes

A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.

- Patrick Carney

topic: People, Band, Records, Record Stores, Itunes

I don't think people really do listen. We plug into music, and we have short attention spans. We tend to download individual tracks from iTunes rather than a whole album. We buy music DVDs and watch them once, and then they disappear into a drawer, or we loan them to a friend, and we never watch it again.

- Ian Anderson

topic: Thinking, Dvds, Track, Short Attention Spans, Itunes

I'm not going to lie. I check the iTunes charts. It's all about the iTunes charts. I only go on the Internet for the iTunes charts and basketball blogs.

- Nate Ruess

topic: Basketball, Lying, Goes On, Itunes

I looked around the iTunes store and came across Dr. Moku's Hiragana Mnemonics. Thirty minutes later I had memorized all 46 hiragana. Now my 9-year-old is learning them, and having a lot of fun.

- Mark Frauenfelder

topic: Fun, Years, Drs, Itunes