Edgar Bronfman Jr Quotes

#1. 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.

Edgar Bronfman Jr.

#2. The recipe for any character is always very interesting, as far as what doses of certain qualities you want.

Joel Edgerton

#3. Sometimes, when very few know the truth, a single person with only the power of a loud voice will be believed even when they lie.

Marty S. Dalton

#4. To turn $100 into $110 is work. To turn 100 million into $110 million is inevitable.

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#5. 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.

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#6. How enriched life is by friends! Good friends, new friends, old friends, feathered friends, feline friends,
friends of friends ...

Laurel Burch

#7. 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.

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#8. Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.

Walter Lang

#9. In God I trust. Everybody else gotta show and prove.

Ca$h

#10. Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#11. It's interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had.

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#12. 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.

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#13. There's no such thing as altruism.

Andrew Tobias

#14. The cruel ambush of 9/11 supposedly 'changed everything,' slapping us back to reality. Yet we are constantly shocked, shocked by the foreseeable.

Frank Rich

#15. 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.

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#16. 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.

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#17. I can't stand the idea of missing something. I've got to know what's going on - it's like an animal instinct with me.

John Fairchild

#18. 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.

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#19. Tried to focus on a particular aspect of this historical moment: the failure of mourning. This is something I haven't seen a great deal of in the writing around this disaster. And my view is that you write about disaster by writing around it, by writing allusively.

Teju Cole

#20. 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.

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#21. Any time you can give consumers more of what they want, it's a good thing. Unbundling the album is a good thing. In the case of music - because it is content that you can slice into songs - doing that is of huge benefit to consumers.

Edgar Bronfman Jr.

#22. 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.

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#23. I made the decision when I came to Seagram that it had to be OK that my public persona would be bad. It's the downside of a family business: anything good is because I'm somebody's son; otherwise, I'm a schmuck.

Edgar Bronfman Jr.

#24. 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.

Edgar Bronfman Jr.