Kyp Malone Quotes

I enjoy touring. I enjoy recording the music, I enjoy dreaming it and I enjoy performing it. I also definitely enjoy selling it, because I like to eat.

You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way.

Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that's really the only unique situation that's going to be left.

I really want to put the emphasis on creating music. I want to cut a record. I want to start going on tour.

I'm just an artist that makes good music and has a good idea to make money off of that.

As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving.

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage.

I've always treated the music business as a business.

As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn't have a day job.

Yeah, man I am going to be writing a book soon. The reality of being in a rock band in the music business'.

Traditionally the show must go on which is a stupid thing to say, but that in a nutshell is what's going on. We have a new record out; if we won't tour, the new record dies. It's reality - it's what business is nowadays. You just need to tour to sell your albums.

I just want to make music and make a living. I just have to find the means of doing that.

I've toured the U.S. every single year and I've put a record out every single year whether it was on a major label or not; that doesn't make any difference to me.

No one starts playing my kind of music to make a fortune. But I do want to keep doing what I do and I do want to continue selling records. And I would, eventually, quite like some money.

Eventually, when I sell enough units, as they say in the record business, I will stop touring. I'll concentrate on what I like to do... stay in the studio.

Nowadays, it's like two different arenas, recording and touring. When I started way back in the day, doing both was nothing, you didn't have to think about it, the road and recording.

If you become famous and don't have a live show to back it up, they're not going to pay you any money.

I'm lucky that I enjoy touring as much as I do. I'm not going to make a living just making records.

Since I was 19, I've said, 'I'm gonna sign for a million.'

My tour manager, I met him at Boot Barn. He was selling me a pair of boots... and he said, 'I moved to Nashville to be a tour manager, and I need work right now,' and I said, 'Man, I don't even have a tour manager. So you can tour-manage me.'

Nobody sells records any more, and the only way you can actually do anything is to go out and play live.

In the commercial music world, the folk world, we sell records and concert tickets - this is the way I make a living. You go out, you make your art and hopefully people will put their money down for it. But it's getting hard. I have to be on the road so much to keep the lights on.

I'm a real guy. I'm not money-laundering. I make money off music, and music is my source of income. It feels good. I'm not selling T-shirts, I'm not doing none of that other crap. Straight music.

I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business.