Chance The Rapper Quotes

If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media.

With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.

I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.

I feel like I'd like to continue putting out records and start putting them out more rapidly than I have until now and for me if I can keep selling the records to the fans that already like me that's fine.

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.

Unless I've got Katy Perry on the cover of my CD, it's going to be tough to sell a lot of records.

I'd love to get played on the radio, but it just doesn't happen.

Good bands won't get famous anymore unless they get really lucky.

If I have a hit, then I hope the people who like the hit song go out and buy my album so they can hear it all.

I want to make more fans, sell records.

When you are a commercial music artist, your music depends on your popularity.

I just wanted to have my own dynasty. I wanted my own Cash Money or Roc-A-Fella. Outside of that, I also wanted my own media company.

I know a lot of people who jumped into a record label right away, dropped an album, and then nothing happened for them. Build your fan base first, and follow your gut.

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

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

I have a fan base worldwide, man. I think they're really down for me. That's how I got signed - 30,000 fans retweeting Rick Ross.

My music and my fan base is really built off of my lifestyle.

I hate the industry even more now, no bands get nurtured anymore. Labels only spend money promoting acts they know will be Top Ten. I find it offensive spending $2 million on a video.

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.

So there was a way for you to get promoted and survive as an artist without worrying about AM radio hits.

When you don't have a record label and you have been on your own as we have, you can look at all these other ways you can get in touch with other people and get music out there again.

When I made my first album, there was no indication that anybody other than my parents were going to buy it.

Even though the popularity and the fanbase is much much greater, and more people have heard about me through things like the Grammys and the Ivors and touring and word of mouth, it doesn't reflect in the sales of the record and doesn't go into my pocket.

I actually don't think that I'm gonna sell a lot of records.

My whole career began because I was always putting my music on the Internet. By the time I had my first tour, I had an audience everywhere I went, because people were listening online.