“[It's] only a matter of time -- months rather than years -- before the music business establishment completely folds”

– Thom Yorke of Radiohead

“I remember a time when it felt like, being on a major label, our interests were aligned….But those days are gone. Because, mainly, that infrastructure is broken at the moment. How long before they (record companies) are irrelevant? Who knows? They seem to be doing everything they can to make sure that happens as quickly as possible.”

– Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails

“Industry shady it need to be taken over. Label owners hate me I'm raisin' the status quo up.”

– Jay-Z (H To The Izzo)

“If you're going to start a company that deals with musicians, please do it because you like music. Offer some control and equity to the artists and try to give us some creative guidance. If music and art and passion are important to you, there are hundreds of artists who are ready to rewrite the rules.”

– Courtney Love

“Lawsuits on 12 year old kids for downloading music, duping a mother into paying a $2,000 settlement for her kid? Those scare tactics are pure Gestapo.”

– Chuck D of Public Enemy

“They have all these abnormal practices that keep driving the price up. People think musicians make all that money, but it’s not true. We make the smallest amount.”

– Gregg Rollie of Santana and Journey

“They’re protecting an archaic industry. They should turn their attention to new models.”

– Bob Weir of Grateful Dead

“I like the people at our record company, but the time is at hand when you have to ask why anyone needs one. And, yes, it probably would give us some perverse pleasure to say ‘F*ck you’ to this decaying business model.”

– Thom Yorke of Radiohead

“Instead of spending all this money litigating against kids who are the people they’re trying to sell things to in the first place, they have to learn how to effectively use the Internet…. I didn’t ask them to protect me, and I don’t want their protection…..It’s the way of the future. You can smell it coming. Stop fighting it, because you can’t.”

– David Draiman of Disturbed

“The main problem is that the artists are not getting as much help developing as before file-sharing. They are now learning to peddle ringtones, not records….They don’t understand the value of a perfect piece of art.”

– 50 Cent

“That’s not easy to find in a corporate world, somebody who cares about music.”

– Michael Penn