Jaimoe Quotes

I love having a major label behind me. Independent was really great to start off, as and I made some really big moves and gained a lot of fans.

Since I was 17, I had been just making records and promoting them.

So there was a way for you to get promoted and survive as an artist without worrying about AM radio hits.

I was kicked off a record label and didn't get picked up again. It was devastating at first because I thought, 'Oh my God. My career is over. What's gonna happen? What am I going to do?' Once I got that I could have a career, a very good career, without having a hit record, then I changed.

I enjoy touring. I enjoy recording the music, I enjoy dreaming it and I enjoy performing it. I also definitely enjoy selling it, because I like to eat.

First of all, I think that is true, if you are a musician, particularly on the come, that you do have to end up in one of these musical centers, some way, to be viable, saleable and so on.

I'm gonna be honest. I don't care about much. I care about people liking my music. I made it very far without nothing being on radio.

I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.

I don't tweet very much. I still believe in the mystery of an artist. I believe in going out when I'm ready to sell my product. A lot of artists are out there every day. But I remember the Julio Iglesiases, the Jose Joses - and it was about the music.

I even have nephews who make music, my daughter makes music. I don't know what advice to give them these days. It's really a tough industry to break into.

That would be awesome, to be totally making records whenever I want and to play a show and have a few hundred thousand people there at any city you go to because people know you and your music.

I really want to put the emphasis on creating music. I want to cut a record. I want to start going on tour.

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

I wrote my first single, 'Keep Your Head Up,' and that's what got me on the radio and helped me develop a whole base around the country.

I get advice from all the producers who have come out of Memphis. They just give me advice on the business side, because that's most important besides the actual music. Just staying at a point I know I can't mess myself up. I just got to be put up on game about it. Drumma Boy and Memphis Track Boy taught me a lot.

Jimmy Iovine signed me personally to a million-dollar contract, and I lost my identity for a long time. That system is so predicated on making a hit, or you're out of here.

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I know how hard it is to make it in the music business.

I know a lot of people who jumped into a record label right away, dropped an album, and then nothing happened for them. Build your fan base first, and follow your gut.

I'm not interested in anything besides making some good music, helping some artists, being an executive. I'm pretty happy with that.

If you're going into music, work on your music and do it as well as you can. And look at it as a business. I'm in it to make a living, too.

When we started Allman Brothers, Atlantic Records kept telling us there was no way it was going anywhere.

I've always had a plan for my music career.

I was so moved by music that I wanted to create it as well, but once you decide that's what you want to do with your life, to be successful, you have to be business-minded, too.

I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business.