Josh Homme Quotes

I've never worried about how a new release will be received. I simply try to do the best I can and leave the rest to the gods. The music industry in those terms is something I loathe and detest. It conjures up images of a gigantic factory spewing out parts of the machine.

The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing.

I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me.

Independent artists and labels have always been the trend setters in music and the music business.

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.

In a sense, the music business and I haven't always been the best of bedfellows. Artists often have to fight their corner. Your music goes through these filters of record labels and media, and you're hoping you'll find someone who'll help you get your work into the world.

I am in a business that's built on record sales and reputation and how your single is doing and where your song is on iTunes. But the kind of music that I do comes from my beliefs.

The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer.

There are no record companies in Waikiki.

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

Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.

You make music to change the radio, not make music for the radio.

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

There are people who are genetically made to start record labels, and I'm not one of those people. People just have it in their blood and are good at it. Corey Rusk from Touch and Go and Ian MacKaye. These are people who have made their own labels.

I have always abhorred the business end of music.

The labels are in a jam. For a company to do well in music now, it's got to be in all aspects of the business. And Live Nation is the risk-taker. It's leading the charge.

If it wasn't for the TLC story, many artists would not have smartened up, and you wouldn't have the Lil Waynes and people with their own labels.

But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.

Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business.

The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.

I am a singer first and foremost. I was lucky enough to have a manager, when I was 15, who knew the heads of a lot of record labels at the time.

When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

I still don't understand the music industry that much. Everything I learned was from hanging out with rock musicians in studios. I certainly have respect for those who make music their livelihood.

People in the music business say don't make too many records because they'll compete against one another.

I should be the one to say what I do. It's just not done that way anymore in Nashville, and I can't do it the other way. That's how our record label came about.