“The alternate media are becoming important and viable alternatives to playing live. Records, videos, that kind of thing. They're going to start to count for something. Because there's only a limited amount of us-time available to us.” KindImportantRecordsMediaAmountBecomingAvailableVideoAlternatives Author:Jerry Garcia
“In 2001 Steve Staunton became the record cap holder for which country? Brazil.” CountryRecordsFansMediaFootballSoccerCapsBrazil Author:Anne Robinson
“Why don't we see any questions from the press? Why don't we see anybody from the media saying, 'Mr. President, it's illegal, you started it, you are performing a program that is collecting all of the phone records from all Americans, it's been declared illegal from the second highest court in the land, why don't you stop?'” PresidentRecordsLandMediaHighestProgramCourtPressesPhonesPerformingIllegalCollectingNsa Author:Rand Paul
“I was offered seven deals from seven different major labels between 2009-2011, and to be quite honest... nowadays, you need a hit record, a great radio team, an amazing PR firm, social media, a big budget, a team that is ready to work extremely hard, and the drive and passion to win!” NeedsDifferentHardBigsPassionWinningSocialDealsRecordsTeamHonestMediaReadyMajorsSevenRadioSocial MediaLabelsBudgetsFirmDrive And Passion Author:Ashanti
“Anyone who knows anything about journalism knows that reporters are rarely in a position to investigate anything. They lack the authority to subpoena witnesses, to cross-examine, to scrutinize official records. They are lucky to get their phone calls returned.” KnowsRecordsMediaPositionLuckyAuthorityCrossesPhonesJournalismWitnessOfficialsReportersPhone CallsScrutinizeSubpoenas Author:Irving Kristol
“I have always considered myself a fast learner. I try to retain and absorb as much information and knowledge about the [music] business as I can. I don't want to just sit back and have other people do the hard work for me. I try to be involved in every process of my career as possible. I run my own social media, record, and try to vocal produce myself as much as possible, write my own songs, style myself, and learn the business side. If I didn't do acting or music, I was going to school for business. God has put me on this path and I can honestly say I wake up every day doing what I love.” PeopleIfsWantWritingTryingI CanHardRunningSchoolSongSocialProcessSidesMy OwnActingCareersPathRecordsMediaStyleInformationProduceHard WorkInvolvedWake UpSocial MediaHonestlyVocalMusic BusinessLearners Author:Asher Monroe
“I just keep my ear to the street. I haven't read any music books recently, because I figure I read everything I need to know back when I was 12, 13 years old. I know pretty much everything about record publishing, radio stations. The only thing that's changed is you gotta keep up with social media. It's free promotion.” KnowsNeedsYearsBookSocialRecordsStreetsMediaHavensFiguresChangedEarsRadioSocial MediaStationsPublishingPromotionBack WhenRadio Stations Author:Juicy J
“As an independent artist it is so easy to get caught up in websites, social media, merchandise, when I am going to put out an EP, fining a producer, finding a studio to record in and you have to remember at the end of the day you should be writing music.” ShouldWritingEndsRememberArtistSocialEasyRecordsMediaFindingsIndependentCaughtStudiosSocial MediaProducersThe End Of The DayCaught UpWebsiteEasy To GetWriting MusicMerchandise Author:Tyler Hilton
“I guess it really didn't even dawn on me that you could be a rock critic as a job until I was maybe almost out of college. I knew criticism existed. I read Rolling Stone and Spin. Siskel and Ebert were on television. But I had absolutely no idea how to get that kind of life. And moreover, it didn't interest me that much. I just sort of read normal books growing up. I wasn't that media-conscious. I felt like the one thing I was able to do was to listen to a record and decide whether I liked it.” KindBookIdeasAbleJobsFeltInterestGrowing UpRecordsGrowingOne ThingRocksMediaTelevisionCollegeNormalConsciousStonesCriticismCriticsNo IdeaDawnRollingRolling Stones Author:Chuck Klosterman
“I want to have complete control over every media so that when I make my record I put on it what I want to put on it. Not what society wants me to put on it.” WantRecordsMediaWant Me Author:Peter Tosh
“We're not ignored by The Guinness Book Of Records, but we've been largely ignored by the media during our lifetime. If you read any article, no mention is ever made of Pink Floyd. We're never included in the same sentences as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Who. I wrote 'The Wall' as an attack on stadium rock - and there's Pink Floyd making money out of it by playing it in stadiums! Pathetic. They spoiled my creations.” IfsMadeBookRecordsRocksMediaCreationWallStonesLifetimeSentencesMaking MoneyArticlesRollingIgnoredPatheticSpoiledStadiumsRolling StonesGuinness Author:Roger Waters
“In a social media age, it seems that everyone lives in their own reality and that when you give consideration to Newt Gingrich, he exists in an alternate reality, at some level, where the things he says are so diametrically opposed to the record.” GivingRealitySeemsAgeSocialLevelsRecordsMediaSocial MediaConsiderationNewtsAlternate Realities Author:Steve Schmidt
“A lot of artists have been persuaded into doing whatever they can do to gain attention. The media, of course, will position and promote the worst of them to the front page. The sidewalk to crime becomes the marketing campaign. These artists have seen it work and sell millions and millions of records for other artists.” Has BeensArtistCoursesCan DoAttentionMillionsRecordsWorstMediaFrontsCrimePositionPagesGainsSellsMarketingCampaignsSidewalkMarketing Campaigns Author:Chuck D
“In a funny way I think social media is making people less rather more experimental. People are too worried about looking good all the time. When I grew up you could get it all horribly wrong and it didn't matter, there was no record.” PeopleThinkingWayMatterSocialRecordsMediaGrewGrew UpSocial MediaWorriedLooking Good Author:Patrick Grant
“I love touring, I love making records, but eventually all I want...I want to score. I want people to ask me to score their film or use my songs in cinematic ways. I think the ultimate media is a story that you can watch and feel and have a musical moment to. I think it's my favorite. I love watching something when music is creating motion within the motion.” PeopleThinkingWayWantFeelsMomentsStoriesUseFilmSongAsksWatchesRecordsMediaCreatingMusic IsUltimateMusicalMy FavoriteAsk MeScoreTouringLove MakingCinematic Author:Justin Vernon
“I think a bigger difference with social media is going to be things like the impact Instagram will have for historians. For the longest time, we had no images of the past. And then when we had the advent of the camera, we had a record of the things people chose to photograph, which, for a while, were portraits of your family, a new building we built, or a really big horse. Well now we have images of everything. That will be the biggest difference I think - that we will have a visual record of this reality in a way that will be completely covered.” PeopleThinkingWayWellsBigsRealityPastSocialDifferencesRecordsMediaBuildingBuiltBiggerHorseCamerasImpactPhotographSocial MediaOur FamilyVisualsCoveredHistorianPortraitsInstagramAdvent Author:Chuck Klosterman
“I work at a record label where I have archives. These things [memorabilia] occurred and are important to somebody, and they're important to me. I find the record industry largely repellent. This music, the Teen Idles, all of that stuff, is important to me. I don't have lawyers, an agent or a manager. However I find the music industry largely repellent. I just make records because that's what I love to do. So I think that era, those pieces of media, I keep in my collection.” ThinkingImportantStuffRecordsPiecesMediaIndustryLawyerAgentsManagersLabelsErasCollectionsMusic IndustryArchivesRecord Labels Author:Ian MacKaye
“In the media, a reviewer has his personal vision but it's passed along to a million readers or whatever. He might think that this particular song sounds like Jo Blow. Or like a Bo Diddley record that he heard six years ago. But the artist who made the record may never have even heard the Bo Diddley song. We all respond differently.” ThinkingYearsMayMadeMightArtistSongSoundVisionMillionsRecordsHeardMediaParticularReaderSixYears AgoBlowReviewersPersonal Vision Author:Van Morrison
“The media is going to stick a label on records. And the public is going to pick it up from that. And that's what I was getting sick of-the whole analyzation thing.” WholeRecordsMediaPicksSickSticksLabels Author:Van Morrison
“Today on social media, you can release anything and everybody will hear it. Back in the day, that was your only outlet, getting a deal with a record company and them distributing it around the world.” WorldTodaySocialDealsCompanyRecordsMediaSocial MediaReleaseAround The WorldOutletsRecord CompaniesBack In The Day Author:Keith Sweat
“Just think about it, be honest, how many groups have you heard of in the last five or six, seven, eight years that you never heard of playing live? You never heard of them making a record. You never heard of them in anybody else's band, and all of a sudden they're the biggest thing going. That to me, that's to me social media music. I'm not saying it's right or it's wrong but it is what it is.” ThinkingYearsLastsSocialRecordsFiveHeardGroupsHonestMediaBandSixSevenSocial MediaEightBeing HonestIt Is What It Is Author:Joe Louis Walker