Bahman Ghobadi Quotes

You don't make this kind of music expecting to have to do TV press and stuff like that. I don't mind doing it, but it's a fairly underground type of music. You do it for the love of the music more than being a star or anything.

Distributing the music is so easy it's moot. So now the delicate art of calling attention to your music means everything. Marketing is distribution.

I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.

Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.

And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it's catchy, and you've got a little bit of help, I think that's all you need. But there hasn't been that in music.

My access to music when I was growing up was through pirate radio, you know, transistor radio under the pillow, listening to one more and then 'just one more' until your favourite track comes on.

I never do releases to try and make or break some contemporary band.

You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.

With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.

I went to underground music studios. In the studios, I learned that you can make a movie without a permit.

I know there's a certain love and affection for the homemade on the Internet, and I'm all for that, too, and I appreciate it in alternative music, and I appreciate it in B-movies and in Sundance, independent films.

At the end of the '90s and into 2000, electronic music was still an underground phenomenon, especially in America.

Since I loved underground music, I tried to carve a space for feminism within it. Those were my hopes.

After you make good, quality music, then it's your job to go out there and promote it and to market it and to get it out there to the people.

This is a business built on promotion. We've been giving music away to radio stations for 30 years.

I'm a massive sucker for music documentaries.

It seems like Weezer has gotten better and better at getting attention for everything besides our music. Part of that is just the nature of our culture now - you really have to scream to get some attention, so people even know you have a record out that they might want to listen to.

There has never been any proper commitment to marketing these artists and their music. We are not Sony.

I do promotion when it is necessary, but I always want to get back to the music.

There's nothing remotely interesting to me about marketing music as a product.

Serious musicians are finding it harder and harder to have a voice in the world of music these days.

My husband works in the music industry and he's always the first to know about great new bands, so I end up seeming really with it because I'll be listening to an up-and-coming band before everyone else hears about it.

I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name's getting out there more, thanks to all the good people at Alligator Records and at my management company.

I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.

The music industry is a very rough industry. Many years ago, I think it was even rougher in the sense that a lot of it was predicated on image.