Saara Aalto Quotes

When you're releasing an album, you never know how it's going to go. You never know how a critic is going to receive it or how much it's going to sell.

I just want to get my music out and make sure that it's heard in the right way.

I never do releases to try and make or break some contemporary band.

With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.

After you make good, quality music, then it's your job to go out there and promote it and to market it and to get it out there to the people.

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

There's timing. And then there's also certain people at the record company who worked incredibly hard and were incredibly enthusiastic about what I was doing.

It's hard to get people at a record company to talk about music. They don't seem to want to talk about music, it's all marketing, and that's part of a record, you gotta get it out there, people have gotta hear it, but you could do it in a way that's not repulsive.

Whenever you put out music, you're just rolling the dice, and the nice thing with Spotify is they're willing to roll them with you.

If you leave songs sitting around, you do yourself a disservice. You have to put them out there.

I can work my butt off and create an album that's wonderful, but if it's never played and never given the outlet, it won't succeed.

It's called 'I Wanna Thank You,' and I'm encouraging everybody out there to blog, Tweet, Facebook, anything about it. Let's sign a petition. The petition is called 'Busta Rhymes Make 'I Wanna Thank You' Your First Single.'

I'm consistently recording and releasing stuff online or YouTube videos or whatever it is. I just don't know if it's going to be a full on, I'm the next Rihanna, or whatever. I'm not going for it to that level. But I love making music and I don't think I could stop if I wanted to.

I don't really like meetings, I like recording and performing music. I need to set myself up for when the time does come that I need better distribution or just a bigger team behind me.

Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.

I know that starting out as a young band, it's really easy to get lost with bands that sound the same or with the plethora of music that's out there.

When you don't have a record label and you have been on your own as we have, you can look at all these other ways you can get in touch with other people and get music out there again.

The whole time after you record an album, you're just waiting for the release date. You're waiting for fans to hear it and stuff.

I asked my friend Greg Andersson to introduce me to people that can distribute my album.

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 always wanted the world to hear my music, but I didn't know how I was gonna go about it.

The music business doesn't take up that much of my time. I probably should put a little more energy into it.

As a Latin musician, I understand that there are so many places where people don't know who I am. My albums never came out in Australia or Japan.

I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.

I'd love to get played on the radio, but it just doesn't happen.