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Tributes continue to pour in for Steve Jobs
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 7 October 2011
As news of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs’ death continued to resonate around the world yesterday, more tributes poured in, including many – via statement, interview or Twitter – from music business execs and artists. Here’s a small selection…
Universal Music CEO Lucian Grainge: “Steve was a magnetic personality and a fierce intellectual debater of all things music, ranging from piracy to specific discussions about lyrics”.
Warner Music Chairman Edgar Bronfman Jr: “To be a genius in any field is rare enough; to be a genius in three is impossible. Steve did the impossible. His incomparable brilliance in technology, design and business transformed not only the music industry, but many others, and in the process, changed our world. He will be missed by millions, but his legacy will last for generations to come”.
Sony/ATV CEO Marty Bandier to Billboard: “The biggest upside [of Jobs’ work in music] was that he made a new generation realise that they had to pay for music – and that is a tough battle when you are competing against free”.
EMI CEO Roger Faxon: “Steve had an incredible ability to harness the power of innovation to satisfy and stimulate consumer demand in a way that few have ever been able to achieve”.
RIAA CEO Cary Sherman: “He was a true visionary who forever transformed how fans access and enjoy music. With the introduction of the iTunes software and other platforms, Steve and Apple made it once again easy and accepted to pay for music”.
Grammy Museum Executive Director Robert Santelli: “What he’s done with the iPod and the iPad rank on the same level of importance and significance as the invention of the Walkman, the cassette, even the LP and the phonograph in general…. We counted on him as a world to show us how we listen to music and how we consume it. Now that he’s gone, there’s a vacuum in that area and it will be interesting to see how, or if, it can be filled”.
Bono: “What made Steve Jobs truly great is that he was only interested in doing truly great things. He was bored by an easy ride or easy profit. In a world littered with dull objects, he brought the beauty of clean lines and clear thought. [He was] one of a very small group of anarchic Americans who through technology literally invented the 21st century. We will all miss the hardware-software Elvis”.
Coldplay: “We are so sad to hear about the passing of Steve Jobs. In all of our encounters with him he was such a lovely man, and always so humble about his incredible talents. Like all of the people he knew, and the millions of others he didn’t, we will miss him”.
Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz: “There are few people who have made an impression in every area of the modern world. Steve Jobs was a such a person – a modern Leonardo da Vinci. He changed the way we thought about art, design, invention, and the future by combining them all. He has been someone that taught me it’s important to believe in what you do no matter how against the grain or revolutionary it is. He was a true visionary in every sense of the word”.
Chuck D: “If you have your health, consider it the top of the gift pile. Steve Jobs did a lot in 56 years and wished he had what many of you have. I did the Grammy webcast in 1996 for Apple at Madison Square Garden. As payment they said: ‘$1000 or two Power PCs’ – I took the two Power PCs”.
Ewan Pearson, from a forthcoming column for German magazine Groove: “It doesn’t seem to me in any way odd two weeks ago to have written a short thank you letter to the man who helped shape so many of the machines I use on his retirement from Apple. For making a computer for people like me with no training in science or the dark arts of the command line, and for insisting that it wasn’t wrong to experience delight or wonder in its use. Our affection for the objects we use to make things ought sometimes to be directed at the people who in turn made them; the likes of Bob Moog, Leo Fender, Dave Smith and Steve Jobs. Blessed are the tool-makers, the dreamers of our dreams”.
Trent Reznor: “Thanks for the tools, the inspiration, the possibilities… Miss you already Steve”.
Pharrell Williams: “God bless the family of Steve Jobs. He was our modern day Leonardo da Vinci. From Apple to Pixar, what a great life lived. He will be missed”.
Josh Groban: “Such a sad day. I can trace my Apple memories to the IIC when I was a kid. RIP”.
Kylie Minogue: “From my Mac to all Lovers… RIP Steve Jobs”.
