Sony Quotes

I am very happy and honored to be part of the Sony ATV family.

I came of age at the end of the 1960s, just when video was also coming into the world. Companies such as Sony and Panasonic were starting to market it and we artists immediately knew how it could be used.

When I finished Westlife, we had – Louie Walsh is still managing me – I was lucky to have options from different labels such as Sony and Universal. When we met Capitol and Nick Raphael, I just believed in them the most, and it looked like they believed in me the most.

I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but mainly because of their integrity.

‘Angel Of Death’ was a big problem. I remember getting a phone call after the album was done: Sony wasn’t going to release it.

Later on, when I signed with Sony, we wanted to re-release ‘Fade’ as ‘Faded’ with a brand new mix and with vocals by Iselin Solheim. I think Iselin was the first person who sung demo vocals for ‘Faded.’ And it worked out great! The way I got in touch with Iselin was through a guy that I work with in the studio.

In the quest for perfect protection of Sony’s intellectual property, the company threw the privacy and security of their customers under the bus.

I am probably the oldest new artist Sony has ever signed.

Most of the robots being developed for home use are functional in design – Gecko’s homecare robot looks rather like the Star Wars robot R2-D2. Honda and Sony are designing robots that look more like the same movie’s ‘android’ C-3PO.

I feel like Sony appreciates good music from a talented artist.

My connection to ‘Aquaman’ came out through the Sony hack. It had no relationship to reality. I was not on that film. I was not hired to work on that film. I had been talking to Warner Bros. about it.

We look at Sony as someone who’s jumping into the space to help evangelize and build out VR. They’re very centered around a console experience.

My dream was to work for one of the big electronics companies like Sony or Panasonic.

If I had gone to a big company, it would have been very difficult for me to do research freely. At a big company, say Sony, there are very, very good researchers. So I would have to ask them what I could do.

After I sold my screenplay adaptation of ‘Rain Fall’ to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.

I grew up doing musical theatre in Orlando, Florida. When I was 14, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time – a deliveryman heard me singing and offered to deliver my demo tape to Sony Music. I was just really lucky.

Frankly, I was surprised at how generous the Japanese press has been to the idea of a foreigner running Sony.

I feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music.

Before I ever had my record deal, I just had a publishing deal over at Sony ATV. I had that title, ‘Flatliner,’ and just the idea of a girl stopping everybody’s heart – just kind of a fun idea.

The rest of the world may devour Japanese hardware – from Honda Civics to Sony Walkmans – but Japanese software, such as books, movies and recordings, has had little impact outside Japan. The exception is video games.

And I’m working with all these great people at Sony Publishing.

The destructive malware attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) in late 2014 was an unprecedented cyber event for the United States in its scope, destructiveness, and economic implications. The FBI responded to this attack with an investigation that was groundbreaking in its scope and collaboration.

It’s such an amazing team working with both Marvel and Sony, and I have the support of just the very best technicians in the world.

One day I was like, ‘Mom, you wanna sign me at Sony?’

It’s so much easier to go to the Sony movie complex when you’re disabled. You take a great elevator. You get your own little private viewing area. I love it.

I don’t get tripped up in technology. I use technology as a tool. ‘Oldboy’ we shot Two Pro 35mm. For ‘Da Blood of Jesus,’ we shot digitally. We shot the new Sony F55. It’s a 4K camera.

I’m a huge fan of ‘Heart On My Sleeve’ – I think it has a ‘Take That’ feel to it! John Shanks and James Morrison wrote the track, and we spoke to Sony and asked if we could reference a ‘Greatest Day’/’Rule The World’ sound to make that epic ballad. I think it does the job.

We’ve been happy to be able to work with Sony and Microsoft to have the first game that honors everyone’s purchases across iOS, Android, PC, Mac, and the console platforms.

I got signed to a development deal when I was 15. That fell through after about a year when the company merged with another label. Then I got picked up by Sony publishing. So I was writing professionally from 16 to 18. Then I started making my own records.

I’m from there. You know, when you grow up with these people and see them every day and then you look at the numbers it was easy; it was a no-brainer. And when Sony took a look, it was a no-brainer to them, too.

My contract is directly with Sony. Everybody was very fair with me. I kept my movie rights. I only gave my rights to a TV series.

I want to create something like Sony. Not in terms of manufacturing products but creating something that is innovative, makes money, improves peoples’ lives.

I was honored I was signed to Sony. But later I felt like they weren’t the right team.

Even before my dad passed away, people tried to buy the Lakers. Sony tried in the 1980s. People have always wanted to buy the Lakers. They’re not for sale.

I am intrigued enough to want to continue, and also to try and work with companies like Sony on modifying the cameras and making them more user-friendly and efficient.

When you have more people investing in VR games, whether it’s us or Sony or someone else, that means a greater pool of VR developers out there who know how to make VR games.

Sony is the only studio without broadcast relationships with the NFL.

I was MCing in the playground, spitting lyrics over mobile phones – Sony Ericsson, Walkmans, W810s, the Teardrop Nokia phones, all of that. Vital equipment! I never even had a DJ set where a DJ’s playing vinyl, and I’m spitting.

I said we’re going to leave phones, and so we did. We sold it to Sony.

‘Blasto’ is a new game for Sony Playstation. It’s an awesome three-dimensional game, and I play the character Blasto who’s sort of a Flash Gordon barrel-chested superhero who goes to Uranus and shoots these little green alien Fascist guys. He rescues babes; he goes on wild rides.

I have a black pair of suede Jimmy Choos. I’ve only worn them once to a Sony event. The heels have these arrow plates in a pattern. There’s gold, black and white and they’re amazing!

I haven’t really been recording in the last several years. I haven’t wanted to. And even though I had to deal with Sony and now I’m on Universal again, I will probably put out a new record soon.

The success of ‘X-Men’ paved the way, I have to presume, for Sony to make Sam Raimi’s ‘Spider-Man.’

I have the Sony Reader; I have the Kindle as well. I don’t really use either of them, to be honest. I’d rather sit down with a cup of coffee and a newspaper than read all my digital books.

There are a lot of companies – not just Sony and Kodak – that have spent a lot of money trying to make the quality of the digital images comparable with film. But when you’re sending these things over the Internet, they don’t have to be high quality.

But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.

The films Sony Pictures Classics has distributed throughout the years have been of great inspiration to me. I’m very excited to find such a great home for ‘The Rider.’

The hardest thing about being at Sony was not the travel; it was being divorced from the public and private life I had in New York. Travelling as much as I did, while I didn’t lose connection with my friends, I lost a sense of belonging.

I sold 2 million records on Loud, which was one-tenth of the size of Sony.

I don’t read good reviews. I like to know what percentages are going on. When Sony sends out something saying that people are liking the movie, I like to know that, but I don’t actually sit and read the good stuff.

In the U.S., Wikia has content sponsorships with top brands, including Blizzard Activision, Sony, Microsoft, Electronic Arts, ABC Television and others.

I think you can expect Sony, in the case of PSP specifically, to deliver a technology that is going to reinvent and change handheld entertainment, and take it to a brand new level.

Sony’s Walkman far predated the iPod. Nokia ruled smartphones before Apple.

I think one of the reasons for the success of ‘Breaking Bad,’ and now for ‘Better Call Saul,’ is that we have been blessed by AMC and Sony with enough time to figure things out.

I started making raps in 2014, recording stuff from my iPhone and putting them together in Sony Vegas, which is a video editing program.

I always knew I wanted to create original material, and after having meetings with all sorts of record labels, I decided that Sony was the right place to do it. They knew what I wanted to make and gave me the freedom to express myself.

When events like the Sony Hack or the news of the Russian hack of our election, we’re not shocked by such events, but they are troubling.

Sony is the coolest studio. They are really amazing. I think part of it comes from they’re not an American corporation. They don’t work by quite the same rules. And their studio heads have a lot of autonomy.

We compete with Dell and HP. Now, we are going to compete with Sony and Best Buy. Are we going to be like Best Buy? No. Are we going to be a small Dell? No. We are going to be uniquely Gateway.

Platforms are going to get bigger and bigger. Minecraft and Microsoft are just the tip of the iceberg. You’re going to see more and more action in this space. Not just from Microsoft’s Project Spark and Sony’s LittleBigPlanet.