Skitch Henderson Quotes

Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.

Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money.

I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.

I've never personally criticized anyone else's music, but I know that the public's real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I play simple music for money only and for the notoriety and to increase my popularity.

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.

Most managers in the rock n' roll world... don't care so much about who's in the band as long as it's making money.

If you earned money listening to music, I'd be a millionaire.

In pop music, the public usually see the results - the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours - but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won't make it.

The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.

Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many.

As music became more profitable in the 1990s, it seemed like it attracted a lot of people who were just interested in the financial aspect of it, which is depressing.

Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather that was singing lounge gigs, backup in studios, or weddings.

A lot of pop music is based on trying to make people remember it so that they'll buy it. To me, it was not about that.

At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that.

Pop music is created by repression - and then the system takes it and makes even more money with it!

It seems like the record industry made so much crazy money in the 1960s that everyone wanted to get in on it. Now it's just become very corporate. So all of these people who despise music end up being in charge.

If people are talking about you, that's great. You start making more money, that's great. You get to go to weird places, that's great. The music industry is weird, especially with the Internet. People are calling you all kinds of weird stuff, like 'jangly.'

Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money, they should take a look at some of their six-figure executive expense accounts. All those lawsuits can't be cheap, either.

A lot that was happening in 2005, 2006, good and bad, the beats reflected it. It was a lot of money around. People was making music to throw money to.

No one starts playing my kind of music to make a fortune. But I do want to keep doing what I do and I do want to continue selling records. And I would, eventually, quite like some money.

Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.

The fact that people still know us is, in my opinion, a result of our music and of the big money that runs the music industry today. The people who control the industry are accountants who recycle everything in new, nostalgic packages, and everything else, to make more money.

It was in Delhi when I started doing jingles and making money through music.

Only sick music makes money today.

I care about music and money. I'm an artist first.