Eddy Cue Music Quotations

Our view is that our biggest competitor is illegal music and P2P services. We always thought that if we offered a better alternative, then those customers would be happy to pay,

It is certainly our belief that digital music buying is the future of music purchasing. Certainly our customers love it, and you can see it in the younger generation. They buy a lot of music now, and they buy it all online. That is what they know music as. They certainly do not know music as a record or as a CD--they know it as digital bandwidth,

We've known that about (400,000 to 500,000 songs) per month is what all the other online music stores in Japan have been doing. The majority of that being Mora,

We are about 5 per cent of the music market in the US but there is no doubt in my mind that digital music is the future,

We've worked closely with Motorola to deliver the world's best music experience on a mobile phone. We're also thrilled to be working with some of the largest wireless carriers in the world to bring this pioneering phone to market.

We're thrilled to be the first digital music store to offer the songs from Dave Matthews Band for individual purchase.

We've had the No. 1 digital music player in Japan. And now we can say we have the No. 1 online music store in Japan.

This is an incredible offering for fans of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. We've put together a package that's unrivaled in the music industry for launching a new album, exclusive videos and a concert tour.

In all of our launches, we start off with a certain number of labels and then we aggressively move to expand that and we will certainly continue to do that in Japan. Obviously we are hoping Sony joins the music store soon.