Quotes About Industry

Sports is a mass product, and it's a non-replicable product. You can't knock it off.

These girls come; they last one season; they're completely used up and dried out and sent back home. That's not how to make a life. I want a girl to come in knowing full well what she's getting into and being able to deal and make decisions that will create a career.

There are many kinds of movies in Hong Kong. Some are commercial and others are more artistic.

I think Korea is so focused on just the charts, and what's going to chart and what's not, and I'm sure it's like that way in the States as well, to a certain degree. But I enjoy working in the States a little bit more. Because it's more about making music that is the right sound and the right fit to me, not so much just chasing the charts.

Korean films have always been distributed to international audiences as arthouse films.

I guess the difference between the Korean hip-hop scene and the American hip-hop scene is that in the American hip-hop scene, you know, they have their Jay-Zs. They can become conglomerates through hip-hop. In Korea, it doesn't happen.

You go to LA, or you go to New York, and it's really fun to go there. But they're not grounded. Everybody is just competing all the time for the limelight. It's too much entertainment industry. There are too many choices. And it's distracting to me.

The truth of the matter is the real industry is in LA and the cream of the talent is there.

I don't think the label cares about an album... People just want their number-one record.

I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.

I was with PolyGram; that was the big label that I was with for the longest, like 12 years.

If you're not on a major label today, you're not gonna get played. They've got the market sewed up.

I never solicited a major label and I certainly wouldn't now.

Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.

I am in discussions with a label. We are talking about doing something.

I'm a label that wants to sell. I believe in clothes.

You can't control it once you turn it into the label, so there's the expectation that it'll leak a week before the album comes out. That's the world we live in.

The control game has just been changed. The artist has a lot more control than the label, which is special. I feel like the fans crave that. I feel like they can tell when it's not genuine.

Obviously, my label would want me to be on the radio all the time, but that's not my personal goal.

Can a label group by itself scale to make a sensible business? I don't think so.

The Big Machine Label Group will continue to knock down doors to break female talent.

I never wanted to be on an exclusively Christian label.

Because we are Nashville-based and predominately a country label, people obviously think of us in that way, and that's fine.

Jive is a good label, but they're R&B'ed out.