David's World

October 15, 2006

It changed the world

I was very lucky to grow up in a time when music really mattered. It wasn't just something in the background; it really mattered to a generation of kids growing up. It really changed the world. I think that music faded in importance for a while, and the iPod has helped to bring music back into people's lives in a really meaningful way. Music is so deep within all of us, but it's easy to go for a day or a week or a month or a year without really listening to music. And the iPod has changed that for tens of millions of people, and that makes me really happy, because I think music is good for the soul.

Note the marked difference between multi-billion-dollar top manager Steve Jobs in his approach to music to how music is seen by the music lobby and some software companies, who all try to squeeze money out of us, selling recycled, mass-produced be-happy nuggets instead of soul food. The quote is from a recent interview Jobs did with Newsweek.