Music Marketing Quotes

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

Record labels and producers are not looking to change you: they are looking to make a star. And what they might think is a star may not be you.

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.

I really felt like 'Chandelier' was a big pop song. But we weren't sure what would happen if I wasn't willing to show my face and do promo and go on tour and do the traditional kind of pop strategy. So I had no expectations.

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.

I think 'Interscope' always puts the artist first, and they're focusing on these artists' development. I felt like that was a part of my career that I kind of needed to focus on after having come from the radio and getting exposure that way. I wanted to grow my brand and grow my fanbase, and they have proven to be the best fit for that.

I want more people to know who I am and I want to have the chance to tease my music a bit more.

Good bands won't get famous anymore unless they get really lucky.

Chance The Rapper makes some of the greatest music out, and he build his brand up organically, and the fans have reacted to it.

I remember when I first came out as an artist, back in 2004 or 2005, the record label used to take me to all the radio stations and just have me sit in, like, their lunchroom or their conference room, and play for the whole staff. Just to introduce them to me so they would play my records.

In a way, the traditional album is no longer as important as it used to be. But at the same time, I don't want to be the kind of artist who just releases one song after another.

I don't believe in the philosophy of stumbling across hit records.

I have seen more bad songs make it because of MTV than good ones that haven't.

With the advent of radio and recording, music became an industry rather than just a tradition.

When the first record came out, I'd go down to radio stations pretty much every day to get the record played, and I would walk in and they'd tell us how much they loved the record, but they weren't sure how much they could play it because they were already playing a girl.

People got to know us from hearing us live because there wasn't much publicity or radio airplay for a long time.

I always thought that if record companies didn't understand me, fine - I'd go and do it by myself.

'Boneless,' even though we were thinking about servicing it to radio, it made more sense putting a vocal on there. This was actually the first time that I really looked at doing a song for radio and kind of let go of some control and listened to a lot of different radio pluggers and had Ultra come in and help out with ideas.

My most successful album happened back in the mid-'90s, pre-Internet times, with 'Songs For A Blue Guitar.' We were supported by Island Records; we toured a lot. Songs were licensed to TV commercials and movies.

My first record wasn't even with the Fugees. I was signed to Big Beat Records, so I was signed back in 1989 to the label that the Knocks are on now. You can always tell which generation had the pulse based on how they see things.

None of my heroes were big rock stars, and I thought, 'This isn't how it's meant to be.' It wasn't about making music so much as selling it.

I think that's what most of us rappers do too often. We put too much information in some of our albums that could actually be on the next ones.

MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.

I'm not really rocking with mixtapes no more. EPs and albums - that's it.

The hardest part about the music industry for anyone is getting into the ears of the world.