Chris DeWolfe Quotes

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.

If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media.

Being a recording artist, selling music, selling concerts out, having a reality show, starting film; it's great, it's beautiful.

You can't sustain a fan base on a great catalog alone. You must take your music directly to the people.

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

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.

You play shows all over the country and hope that radio gets a chance to get out to see you, but that doesn't always happen like that.

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.

I started writing music when I was 15 in my bedroom, and I'd post them on MySpace, and from there it shifted to doing covers on YouTube and building my Twitter.

Radio and TV can still push a band, but things need to be shaken up. There is the Internet, but mostly what I see there is little kids on YouTube playing music.

Back in the day people made music to go on tour. They didn't make music to make a video.

Social media and music in general have been changing so fast. You can go on Twitter and go from one artist to another. What I really like about it is the opportunity to communicate directly with your fans.

It's easy to get lost in the shuffle, and just enticing people to hear the music for free doesn't mean that much when everyone else is essentially doing the same thing on MySpace, or wherever.

There has never been any proper commitment to marketing these artists and their music. We are not Sony.

With *NSYNC, we shopped our deal for a year in America, sang a capella in everybody's office, then moved to Germany for almost two years and became popular there. A guy representing a rock band came to our show in Budapest, saw 60,000 people get excited for a band from America that nobody in America knew, and told someone at RCA.

I also hope that with the assistance and expertise of Dome Records, that I will be able to further pierce the UK and European market. I really like playing there and I want to do more! I've found that the audiences get quite involved and really listen to what's happening.

I've always said that if you have songs on the radio and get played, you've got to have a tour to support that.

There's something insane about this business - about the cycle of making albums and going on tour to promote them.

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'm really excited to be chosen as a VEVO LIFT artist. It's a great opportunity to reach millions more music fans with my sound and let them see the real Rita.

I know if I don't tour people will forget the record and you run a high risk of the record failing.

It doesn't matter how good you are as a band or how good your music may be; if the fans aren't supporting it and buying your music, it's hard to make it.

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 want to learn - there's so much I have to learn about what it takes to be a recording artist, about what it takes to go on tour.