Tom Anderson Quotes

The entertainment industry is a very noisy, crowded marketplace.

A racist is a man who believes in history, genetics, and his eyes!

Newscorp has always been, for us, very easy to work with and they respect our opinions and let us run the site we wanted to. And, in fact, they wanted to keep us on. They weren’t saying, hey, let’s throw these guys out. They were buying into what MySpace was and the founders, and so it’s been very good for me.

I didn’t expect major labels would embrace MySpace, and the original idea for music on the site was the unsigned bands, the independent bands.

Popular opinion is the biggest ‘filter’ for most people – they don’t have to try something if they’ve already been told it’s not cool.

Bands are going to MySpace because it’s free and they don’t have to know how to do a Web site.

What’s culturally significant about MySpace is that it has become so pervasive that people of all ages are now using it. Even people who didn’t grow up with it are getting used to it. People just get sucked in.

We asked people why they didn’t go to MySpace. A lot of people thought it was too hard to use, they thought it was a music site, or a content site. Privacy was a concern, or they’d say it was a site for teenagers.

We didn’t expect it to be cool, with people trading URLs instead of phone numbers.

Photography has literally changed my life.

Almost all the things you can do online can be enhanced by the social structure of MySpace.

MySpace News is designed to let users decide what’s most relevant to them, and we’ve given them hundreds of subjects to choose from.

It’s not as much fun to go to karaoke alone, but when you do it through the Internet or on your MySpace page, then you can share it with people.

Celebrities have been using MySpace since the site’s launch and it’s a natural extension for us to now offer them an aggregated channel where they can be in control of their own image.

I had looked at dating sites and niche communities like BlackPlanet, AsianAvenue, and MiGente, as well as Friendster, and I thought, ‘They’re thinking way too small.’

I wouldn’t single out Facebook as a concern, because we’ve got different local competitors around the world.

On Friendster, if you were a band and you made a profile, they would delete it. They didn’t want bands on their site.

It’s our hope MySpace Comedy will serve as a launch pad for up-and-coming comedians and as an attraction for the biggest names in the industry.

Google is basically too big for anyone to go against in a serious way.

We had a much bigger vision than creating a dating site.

From the very beginning, our driving passion has been simple: to create and foster a platform where people across the globe can not only meet and interact, but share music, videos, thoughts and ideas.

It’s our hope that MySpace Comedy, much like Music and Film before it, will serve as a launch pad for up-and-coming comedians and as an attraction for the biggest names in the industry.

Safety’ hysteria destroyed MySpace in the press. It got MySpace banned from schools, Apple stores, and by well-meaning parents who had been terrorized by what they were reading.

We can’t allow somebody to create a service like that, which reveals who’s looking at your page. That’s a violation of privacy.

And I always say sign up for MySpace and see what your kid is doing. Be his friend on MySpace. Know what your child is doing online because you’re going to know more there than you’d ever know when he goes to school.

The less the camera is able to capture what you’re seeing in a scene, the more editing it needs.

Parents aren’t clamoring for cell-phone companies to monitor their kids. Parents don’t want to see what their kids are really like, but MySpace makes that really easy.

The Original Sin which brought us to the brink of bankruptcy and dictatorship was the Federal Income Tax Amendment and its illegitimate child, Federal Aid.

I think we have replaced MTV. MySpace is more convenient. You can search for things, while MTV is just delivering things to you. On MySpace you can pick your own channel and go where you want.

The Impact Channel and OurPlanet were created to increase awareness of environmental and social causes within the MySpace community.

People aren’t interested in music on Facebook in the way they are on MySpace, that’s one of the big keys here.

I live in Hawaii part time and love shooting the ocean, both long exposures that capture the movement of water and with a fast shutter speed to freeze the power and force of a wave.

For most of our users, the vast majority of their MySpace friends are also offline friends. They’re just connecting through a different medium when they’re on MySpace.

I mean, my mom knows Google, but she doesn’t know MySpace.

I have a very negative attitude toward business and businessmen.

MySpace is the site I wanted to be on.

The first people in a company are the most important. They will hire people like themselves and create a culture that either works or eats away at the chance for success.

I’ve always kept a low profile and said no to ‘Saturday Night Live’ and stuff like that.

We recognized from the beginning that we could create profiles for the bands and allow people to use the site any way they wanted to. We didn’t stop people from promoting whatever they wanted to promote on MySpace.

We want people to stay on MySpace. We’ll give them whatever they might want to do.

It always helps to have someone who can say, No, we can do it faster this way, or We have to break the rules, even our own rules, to get things done.

It can be a little scary. Like one time I posted a link to NPR because I thought it was interesting, and it took down their Web site.

The idea was that if it was a cool thing to do online, you should be able to do it on MySpace.

We felt like we reached a point where MySpace in its original incarnation had peaked in a way.

During MySpace’s run-up, journalists continually got their facts wrong about MySpace. They wrote story after story about how Facebook was bigger than MySpace when in truth Facebook wasn’t even 1/10th the size of MySpace.

But for those who really want to make the world a better place, can we start looking at Bill Gates’s path instead of Steve Jobs? I like my iPad, but Gates is one of the greatest heroes of our time. For me, that has nothing to do with Microsoft and everything to do with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Instagram has really changed the travel industry.

It’s kind of like, who cares about MTV anymore?

Another part of my background was that I was in film school.

The connection between someone in Leeds and a comedian in Los Angeles would probably never happen if it weren’t for MySpace, so it enables friendship and connection far more than it limits it.

When you go to a band’s MySpace page you will have the full discography of everything they’ve ever recorded that you can listen to online.