Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
BARRY DILLERWe’re in a world now where it’s not enough to be smart. You have to be curious.
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I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
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Facebook’s the real deal. Nobody can buy Facebook now. Everybody has taken an angle at it. But Facebook may be the place that organizes everybody’s personal information. It’s got a very good chance of being that.
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I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.
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Well, the Internet is this miracle. It is an absolutely extraordinary idea that you can press a send button, and you are publishing to the world.
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You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising.
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Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
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I’m never absolutely sure of anything, and I don’t want to be. You’re either right and you’ll pull through, or you’re not. We’re never going to be right about everything, and we’ve certainly been wrong.
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I absolutely believe the Internet is passing from its free days into a paid system. Inevitably, I promise you, it will be paid.
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The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the overhead the established networks carry.
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All forms of commerce are adversarial.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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We’re in a world now where it’s not enough to be smart. You have to be curious.
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No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.
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Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.
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My opinion, young people go to the Internet. To the Internet distribution system right now, you put it up there and it’s accessed by the world.
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