Top 45 Tom Anderson Quotes

The entertainment industry is a very noisy, crowded marketplace.

Burning Man is like one big giant art installation in the middle of starkly beautiful desert landscape, and the attendees are creative in the way they dress.

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.

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

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.

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.

Anything you do on the Internet, I want you to be able to do on MySpace. That’s the goal and ambition.

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.

If you start out saying you want to be cool, you won’t be cool.

I’d heard comedians working MySpace into their routines and giving out their URLs as early as 2004.

Instagram has really changed the travel industry.

Creative freedom and self-expression is what MySpace is all about.

I can’t stress enough how unimportant the camera really is. Any brand of camera will do. For 95% of my shots, the lowest end DSLR will be just fine.

MySpace is so much more about culture and about creativity and expression. So in other words, you go on MySpace and you can find music, and you can find video, and things about politics, and things like that.

We’ve tried to simplify the site because some people found it too difficult to use and were intimidated by it.

I have a very negative attitude toward business and businessmen.

I seem quiet. But when I get upset, I talk too loudly. I’m sort of an alarmist.

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.

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

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.

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

I won’t even say who I’m going to vote for. I don’t want to make people feel like me, or MySpace, is endorsing anyone.

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

I’ve literally never seen a crowd react to a band the way they react to the Polysics. Signing them to MySpace Records was an obvious choice. I wanted to be the person to bring this seasoned band to a new culture and audience. I’m really proud of them.

Ultimately, our goal is to provide all artists with the opportunity to make a living on MySpace.

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.

I tend to ‘splurge’ for convenience. I’ll pay a lot to not waste time.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Photography has literally changed my life.

Time is the most important thing to me – how can you do all the things you want to do with such limited time… I’m hoping science of life extension makes progress.

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.

If you knew me before Myspace, you’d probably thought I’d have been a scholar teaching philosophy in a university my whole life. If you met me before college, you’d probably have thought I’d be a musician for my entire life.

I saw how hard it was for even really talented bands to reach an audience.

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.

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

Facebook really has made the world a better place.

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

For years troops stationed all over the world have utilised MySpace as a lifeline to communicate with their loved ones back home.

I don’t know exactly where my life will lead. Adventure and the unknown has always been appealing to me.