“If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, som...” — Shawn Fanning Quote

“If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You're prepared. But how often does that happen to a programmer?”

“Nobody has ever built a reliable peer-to-peer service, where people can really access all the music they want in one location,... Once I got it into my head, I couldn't imagine the media space without one.”

“That's why I ended up leaving school - because it required so much time, and it was such an excellent idea. I figured I would regret not going full force with this idea. It seemed we could make something of it.”

“I really wanted to be a musician, but it turned out I had no sense of time.”

“Being a musician is a job - it is just a really fun one!”

“I did everything I could to not be a musician.”