Logic Quotes

My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.

I certainly don't want to be a record label guy.

I love producing. I have been producing some acts and starting a label.

I started my own record label.

I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers.

I'm actually going to self-produce my next tape that I'm working on, 'Platinum Frame'. This going to be my second official mixtape.

I just wanted to have my own dynasty. I wanted my own Cash Money or Roc-A-Fella. Outside of that, I also wanted my own media company.

That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them.

I always thought that if record companies didn't understand me, fine - I'd go and do it by myself.

I left the entertainment industry part of my life behind in 1983, when we decided not to work with major record companies anymore.

As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving.

We turned what is virtually a glorified independent label into one of the powerhouse labels in the town.

The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.

It's a massive undertaking putting an album together... It's not light weight at all.

I used to read music books when I was 13. My mom was working at a library. She's a librarian. I would get my mom to check out any kind of books that had anything to do with the music industry. I read a lot about royalities, publishing, marketing, stuff like that.

When I first got my record deal, I was like, 'I just want to sing,' and I never put much thought into what really goes into a record. But as I got older, I developed a passion for writing.

You make music to change the radio, not make music for the radio.

I want to be the president of Columbia Records, maybe C.E.O. - kind of like L.A. Reid.

There are people who are genetically made to start record labels, and I'm not one of those people. People just have it in their blood and are good at it. Corey Rusk from Touch and Go and Ian MacKaye. These are people who have made their own labels.

I hate record labels. They think they know everything. I want to hear them try to sing it.

I'm just focusing on 'Let's Stay Together' and slowly building my production company. I'm trying to get into writing as well.

I made this record without a record label.

At 13 years old, I realized I could start my own band. I could write my own song, I could record my own record. I could start my own label. I could release my own record. I could book my own shows. I could write and publish my own fanzine. I could silk-screen my own T-shirt. I could do this all myself.

We always did our own mixing.

I decided to combine my musical background, business education and creative abilities - and go into the record business.