Olly Alexander Quotes

It seems like Weezer has gotten better and better at getting attention for everything besides our music. Part of that is just the nature of our culture now - you really have to scream to get some attention, so people even know you have a record out that they might want to listen to.

When you're an independent artist, you need as much play or promotion as you can get.

There's been not a dime spent on marketing for any record I've ever put out.

A lot of artists feel it's not worth it to sign with a major label, because if you don't have a giganto hit, then you're not going to get a video made. You're not going to probably get much tour support. You're not going to get promotion. You're certainly not going to get a publicist who's going to pay much attention to you.

There are three things we need to do for a band. We need to make a great record; we need to get the record played; and we need to find an audience for the live shows.

YouTube provides a unique opportunity for all musicians to market and promote their music and directly engage their fans.

I need to reach a lot of people to sell records.

Some people are still not into us. That makes sense. We haven't really done a lot of press. We haven't put ourselves out there in ways that a lot of people would know we are still around. Unless you tour or record, they don't know you are around.

For the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it's doom and gloom and you have to spend millions of pounds on marketing and this and that, you have this amazing thing now called fan power. The whole world is linked through a laptop. It's amazing. And it's free. I love it. It's absolutely brilliant.

If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man.

The more followers you have, the more you can promote your movie. You know? It's all, like, a business thing.

Now is the time to get out there and give people a taste of 'Mondo Cozmo.'

A lot of what's happened with my career has been because of the Internet. It's a way for me to reach fans directly, especially with music.

I get daily mentions in blogs, I get mentions in Twitter and in different social media... I know that gets books sold.

Buzz and the right publicist are not only important but crucial in show business.

Releasing a record is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the promotion of the product, but you have to play the game if you are to have a chance of competing in the market place.

The thing that got me started on Twitter was just basically pressure from management and the record company saying, 'Hey, this is what all the other artists are doing. You need to be doing it also.' I didn't really have a clue what is was.

Everything that's rock n roll is ever meant to be is happening now. I need to get over the shock that that thing is actually happening and that thousands of millions of people around the world are watching.

The new artist is meeting the general public before they meet the record company. They're able to put the material on YouTube and have a million views before they even meet an executive at a record company, and get the deal based on that.

Not surprisingly, there is a cultural divide between American and British actors regarding the self-promotion associated with new media.

Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion.

But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.

Twitter, to me, works if you're funny. Twitter doesn't work as a promotional tool unless you do it very, very, very occasionally.

Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign.

I make sure to use both Twitter and Facebook a lot which helps me connect to the fans.