Michael Robertson Quotations

We believe that everyone should have the right to listen to the music they purchase, even if it's on the Internet, ... While we respect the court, we disagree with the court's decision and we look forward to taking our case to the court of appeals.

What they're really doing is trying to use the internet as a radio, in effect, a hundred-million-person radio as a way for them to broadcast their music and alert new fans to their music.

Legal or illegal, Napster doesn't feel right, ... It doesn't give the copyright holders their share.

Maybe the artists should keep those master recordings and just use a service, like MP3.COM, to sell their music. And in fact, when they use us, let's give them a flat fee ... let's just give them 50 percent of the sale price right off the top.

I have always admired (Johansen's) work and his strength to stand up for what he believes is right, ... He doesn't advocate piracy but does advocate consumers' rights to manage their own purchased content.

If artificial barriers are necessary to keep employees dedicated to company goals, then that's an indicator of weak management.

He was familiar with my companies and writings and thought we shared a similar ideology.

Josh is locating his curveball better now, whereas a year ago he mostly threw fastballs and change-ups. You'll probably see him throw his breaking pitch a little more now.

I saw the hole and it was open, I had to take advantage of it. It was time for us to turn things around, and we took matters into our own hands.

Our goal this year with the pitching staff is to heighten their awareness and challenge them every day at practice. We'll carry 10 pitchers this season and all are pretty competitive and can throw strikes consistently.

Our team speed is exceptional. I think we'll be slightly stronger this year at the three, four and five spots in our lineup.

Our argument is that when you buy a CD, you buy a license to listen to the music, not a piece of plastic, ... The music industry argues that consumers don't have a right to copy that piece of plastic.

Remember, no Internet company ever went out of business because they had too many users and too much content.

I think God put me on this world to challenge big companies.

Microsoft has conceded that the server will have some Linux competition, but they've drawn a line in the sand at the desktop.

Will licensing bodies work in a free market environment to license responsible technologies? ... Or will they use this opportunity to squeeze competitors and consumers?

We had some great outings out of our starting rotation this weekend. Our pitching has been one of the strengths of our team this season.

We are going into the damages phase and we feel very confident.

The data can be used as a real service to the customer.

The exciting thing here is that we have been working the technology to deliver music digitally for three years, and with today's announcement the largest music companies in the world will provide their catalogs to allow us to do that, ... Everyone in the business is excited about moving from a world of trucks and plastic CDs to a world where the music is zapped, instantly and digitally.

We have been e-mail acquaintances for a while. I hired him because we happen to have a major project underway at MP3tunes.com where I thought his skill set would fit perfectly.

To me, roaming along the shelves of a used book store is like searching for seashells along the beach, ... Sometimes I leave the store with a full pail, other times I do not.

The players are very confident after playing and having the success we had last year. We came up just short of our goal and I'm excited about this year.

We had some problems with folks not being in the computer yet. Once we got those sorted out, we seemed to go OK.

We're going to turn our technology, My.MP3.com, on hopefully in November with all of the record labels content,

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Both Chase and Taylor have great control. We need them to take their game to a higher level this year. I anticipate them pitching backwards, meaning when they get behind by counts of 2-0 or 3-1, you won't see them try to catch up by throwing just fast balls. I want to see more off-speed pitches. Outside of that, their main goal is to stay healthy and get stronger as the season progresses.

There's going to be a fundamental shift in the way people listen to music and buy music,

The SWAC West will be strong this season with every team returning at least two quality starters.

I want a world where you can play your music on products from any vendor and even across vendors.

This is an industry in its infancy. This is still primarily a technology pursuit and not about building a brand.

A business model where artists, copyright holders and record companies can potentially monetize their music digitally and in an accretive manner is finally emerging.

Their content has gone back and forth, gone up and come down.

I'm not Reggie, ... I'm just Michael and I'm going to go out there and be myself. I'm not too worried about (the numbers), and I'm just want to go out there and win.

I didn't think it was too good actually.

By applying financial discipline, our second quarter financial results demonstrate our ability to maintain the balance between containing expenses and developing innovative revenue streams.

However, as a team I think we should be a lot more fundamental than we were last year. I was not pleased with our defense due to the amount of errors, so we're focusing more on defense in practice now. I don't anticipate a repeat of what we saw last season.

The marketing benefits of winning an award are off the charts.