Quotes About Business

When I came into the music, I was forced to be a CEO. I was forced to be an entrepreneur; I was forced to... because I was looking for a deal. I didn't have this grand scheme of starting a record company and then morphing into a clothing empire.

Artists and the traditional record company model are at odds. The music business has notoriously taken from the artist. That shouldn't be the narrative.

When it comes to the business side of it, as much as you might hate it, the reality is that you give the record company a sort of ownership of your songs, so you've got to make sure you're getting everything you can out of it now, because if you're not, then who is?

You sign your life away, basically, when you sign a record deal, and if you have a platinum album, then you go back in and renegotiate.

My father was the first entrepreneur in the family. He started his own record label, his own restaurant. He knew that, in order to give something back to the people, he had to create.

We believe that the Internet is the live concert promoters best friend although it might have crippled the record label business.

I don't get involved in record label politics.

I feel like some artists need a record label, and some don't.

I'm not only a DJ. I run my own record label and I work out of my own productions.

I'm running my own business, my own record label, so I'm always dealing with heavy amounts of stress.

I run a whole record label, I'm a whole entrepreneur.

Unless you've given up your business to a record label, there's no such thing as just being a musician anymore.

'TTM' started off being a feature. A producer wanted me to just hop on the beat, like a Diplo type of thing. When I recorded the song, I liked it a lot, and I figured, instead of them paying me to do this, I'd rather just use this for my project, and we can just get money together.

I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar, but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers? It's a catch-22. It's called show business: The word 'business' is in it, and you've got to be a businessman. But then again, you have to be true to yourself as an artist.

Well, when you're recording an album, artists have what they feel like is good music, and the label, they're trying to sell the album. So those two ideas clash sometimes, but in the end it always works out. When you put the two together, that's a good thing.

We're not making records for the fun of it; we're in it to make money.

I run an independent company, Knockout Entertainment. We've always come out with records that had a concept that impacted really, really, really hard.

I'm just concerned with going about my business and making the records I want to make.

These people who have everything at their disposal as far as cash and connections, I think they just get so mired in the business side of things that they don't just sit at home and record records. Anybody can do that.

Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.

I don't know how many records I'm selling.

Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money.

I made so many mistakes in my first successful business I'm almost embarrassed to recount them.

I have been making films for 25 years now and I am not mad to invest in something from where recovery becomes an issue.