You need to look no further than Apple’s iPhone to see how fast brilliantly written software presented on a beautifully designed device with a spectacular user interface will throw all the accepted notions about pricing, billing platforms and brand loyalty right out the window.
We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity.
The iPod made music mobile, but today, how many devices do you need to walk around with? You want it on just one. And inevitably that’s going to be the phone.
If you look at the market cap increase in Apple since it created the iPod versus what’s happened to the music industry, you have to say Apple got the better part of that deal.
Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
Commercial success still hasn’t come to an artist that isn’t signed to a record label. There are very few artists that can succeed without the help of a record label. The role of the record label is still required, it’s still necessary.
By packaging a full album into a bundle of music with ringtones, videos and other combinations and variations, we found products that consumers demonstrably valued and were willing to purchase at premium prices. And guess what? We’ve sold tons of them.
As my other obligations are beginning to take an inordinate amount of time, I have asked to step down as WMG’s board chairman, effective January 31, 2012. However, I will remain a director of the company and in that way, continue my association with Warner Music and its extraordinary people.
Any time that you can give the consumer more of what they want, it’s a good thing. I said from Day 1 that the unbundling of the album is a good thing.
And since discriminating fans can pick and choose exactly what they want to buy, artists and their labels are more conscious than they’ve ever been of making sure that every song on a new album is as good as can be.
It’s the downside of a family business: anything good is because I’m somebody’s son; otherwise, I’m a schmuck.
To turn $100 into $110 is work. To turn 100 million into $110 million is inevitable.
Every fighter should really do that if they can, because if you build a fan base at home first, then once they receive you at home, it’ll be easier to be received elsewhere.
He don’t know what it is to lose, so I gotta teach him something that he doesn’t know yet.
There’s one thing I remember about Muhammad Ali. He said “I don’t like my condition, but if this is what the Good Lord has planned for me to deal with, I’m happy with that.” You have to understand, that comes from my idol, one of the guys that got me started in boxing.
Can’t be touched, Can’t be stopped, Can’t be moved, Can’t be rocked, Can’t be shook.
When I thought about it, I said “if you quit now, how you gonna explain to any other kid coming up that if something don’t go their way, they’re supposed to get up and go hard at it next time?” You can’t if you quit.
It was a tough situation. A fight that nobody expected to end so abruptly for him because he was really a great fighter. I felt sorry for him and I knew it could happen to anybody. And it could happen to any of us at any time. So when I was in a position to help him, I did what I could to help him.
There’s no way a fighter should fight and put his life on the line, and a promoter makes more money than he makes.
We’re in Madison Square Garden, I can’t let you beat me in Madison Square Garden, are you serious!?