Quotes About Music

So for me, I had to get something going to promote the new project that I got. I decided to come with the 'Lost Jewelry' EP, which is a mixtape but it's more sexier because it's all fresh music.

India is a musical country, so it would appear obvious to use our collective passion for music to promote a book.

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.

The work I've done through my Common Culture Music series has enabled me not only to share my joy of music at scale but also promote the artists I love.

I kind of want to get the music back on a road it hasn't been on for a while. I want to promote the arts as part of the American diet.

Any post I do on social media, any song, anything in general - I just try to promote positivity, because I felt like there's not enough positivity going around in the world.

It was so simple in the old days. You put out an album, people promoted it, it got in the charts, and you had a hit.

I came in touch with music at an early age. My father was a show band promoter, who took me along as a little nipper of five and put me up on the stage with the musicians to sing.

Promoters don't book you 'cause they like you; they do it 'cause there's good business to be done.

I've never been into artists promoting drugs.

A lot of white men in the music industry are promoting and participating in black culture in a way that is pretty careless. They want the currency of blackness, but they don't want the brunt that comes along with that.

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

Sometimes you get so jaded, you don't have those initial connections and emotions with music, because you are promoting your own.

The Internet was a saving grace for promoting and exposing, and even creating. It's a parallel world to the music industry that already exists, and I'm glad to be a part of it.

I think musicians are always very generous in promoting anything good they hear. It's just kind of in our nature.

On our studio album 'Fly From Here' in 2011, we spent a year and a half promoting that around the world.

Since I was 17, I had been just making records and promoting them.

I was a good-looking, sexy guy. That certainly didn't hurt in promoting my music.

MTV Unplugged is an interesting platform. They are doing a good job promoting a kind of music that ought to be heard.

I do promotion when it is necessary, but I always want to get back to the music.

I'm into it, I'm into MP3's; I think there's no way you're ever going to be able to legislate people having to buy a record in order to listen to it. You have to look at it as a means of promotion, and if the music is good enough, promotion is a good thing.

Every time I do a dance track it's like I'll get a heart attack, because it depends heavily on the video, the hook line, the stars and the promotion. Any of these factors fail, the song fails.

I work well within The Roots because I can let my music speak for itself while Ahmir does most of the press and the promotion and the brand-building because he enjoys that.

When I do listen to music, I'm more prone to listen to the people I've always listened to: George Jones, Otis Redding, Alison Krauss and Emmylou Harris.