“We wanted to create an opportunity for people to share anything, on th...” — Aaron Dessner Quote

We wanted to create an opportunity for people to share anything, on their own terms, revenue and all. Get away from the commerce side of music, which can be exciting and necessary but ultimately dilutes the creative impulse. The further and further you go down that path is sometimes the further you are from the reason why you started making music.

One of the hardest things about being a musician is finishing a project and then having to wait three or six months to publish it and to do all the sort of promotional behaviour.

Sometimes you become the person people try to pin you into a corner to be, which is not really fair.

I thought I was going to play soccer in college.

Ten Internets ago, when PayPal was started, it was all these tools that no one had built yet to bring commerce to the Internet. My first startup used PayPal.

I believe that economics is based on scarcity of markets. And it's possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.

I will do films I want to make. I will never make a film for commerce.

Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.

Commerce is a core component of pretty much any successful society.