Seinabo Sey Quotes

They say the music you listen to in your formative years stays with you and leaves an impression for the rest of your life. For me, the things that I fell in love with happened in the '70s, when artists were nurtured by record companies and it wasn't about singles.

We have a very loyal fan base, the kind tat buys the record the day it comes out, sees every show, and that's fantastic, but what about the people who would never hear about our band?

Music changes every three months. There's always new artists coming out. There's always new sounds. There is always a new hit coming out. You gotta stay relevant as much as you can and feed your fans as much as you can.

But I also think it's up to the fan base to call in the radio stations and demand that the more mature artists be played as well.

Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.

All of the sudden the audiences started getting younger and the spread of the attendance was really wide. I think it's as a result of the records selling more that they started following our careers.

I think that's the problem in a lot of music. We've got these record labels.

People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.

If people stop being interested, it's because you haven't written a good enough album. Music will always be the most powerful thing. It doesn't matter what record labels or journalists say. It's the song.

People are used to seeing kids jump around. You know, the target audience, the audience that's spending money on music, like rock and hip-hop - they're used to seeing people get really physically involved in their music.

If you don't write good music, people aren't going to listen to anything you say.

Although I do feel that with a show like ours we ourselves are getting a lot more young listeners at concerts.

As long as someone wants to hear my music, I don't care if it's a ringtone or the album or whatever.

What I would argue in my defence is that shows like 'Britain's Got Talent' and 'The X Factor' have actually got people more interested in music again and are sending more people into record stores.

I think the pop chart today is entirely market-driven. And it has nothing to do with public taste. And it has nothing to do with moving music forward. It's simply a market chart.

Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.

I don't relate to what's left of the music business. There doesn't seem to be any point to it anymore. The business that I grew up in and loved, we made records a different way - there were record companies, there were stores where you could buy albums.

It used to be that creative music was most of the music that you heard back in the '30s and '40s, and now it's like 3 percent. So, its kind of a struggle getttin' it out there.

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.

Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.

For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.

The only thing I've ever offered the public is some music. If they like the music, that's great. Turn on the radio. If they don't like it, switch it off.

When you play a show or festival, people know what they're getting; they want it. Then you're thrown onto a show where people are watching TV in their houses, and whether they ask for it or not, we're being played in front of them. There's a lot of negative feedback.

Compared to EDM, I feel like there are a lot of girls at my shows.

Our real business is the people who come to see us play and want to hear us play, so I have a very active career.