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Whatever the download thing has done to the game, you as an artist can get yourself out there to the masses, off your own back.

— Ashley Thomas

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Look: I download music illegally, if I really want it. But I always then buy the record - I support art.

— Pete Wentz

It's nice to sometimes get things out of life, rather than stealing from other artists. I'm trying to steal from the real people.

— John Hawkes

Artists need support, time and money to develop their ideas, and if people rip stuff off, you don't have to be that brilliant to figure out that you're ultimately going to affect the end product.

— John Polson

No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it.

— Gary Wright

As an artist, you have to work really, really hard because you gotta make something that will allow people to even take the chance to even listen to it, you know?

— Zendaya

I wanna make my imprint in the game as far as music - hip-hop, and just music, period. 'Cause I come from hip-hop, that's my background, but I'm not gonna let that limit me from where I can go.

— Nayvadius Cash

I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.

— Isaac Hanson

✗Opposing Perspectives

Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game.

— James Lee Burke

You can't fool yourself anymore that your art is your art. When you're not getting paid for that song that's being traded back and forth among millions of people on the Internet, you have to think like a businessperson.

— Ann Powers

It's the big boys, the Googles of this world, that are already benefiting from piracy and not paying the artists a dime.

— Kim Dotcom