Dalip Tahil Quotes

I'm a fan of music documentaries and I always love seeing what goes on behind the scenes. In kind of the new era of record companies and record releases and that sort of thing, there has to be way more content for the audience.

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.

The recording industry has changed; they're enjoying such incredible success in the pop field.

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

'Vinyl' is a good look at the music industry. The script was honest.

The alternate media are becoming important and viable alternatives to playing live. Records, videos, that kind of thing. They're going to start to count for something. Because there's only a limited amount of us-time available to us.

It's frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it's just so difficult to cut through.

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

With pop music, the format dictates the form to a big degree. Just think of the pop single. It has endured as a form even in the download age because bands conform to a strict format, and work, often very productively, within the parameters.

I think the record industry has gotten to be more about labels wondering what the new single is rather than labels nurturing artists. It's gotten away from making a full album of music that someone would want to listen to all the way through.

It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now.

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

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

There's something insane about this business - about the cycle of making albums and going on tour to promote them.

The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music.

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

In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any more records. That was it, period.

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.

The music industry is very small.

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.

My passion is music, you know, and music influences culture, influences lifestyle, which leads me to 'Roc-A-Wear'. I was forced to be an entrepreneur, so that led me to be CEO of 'Roc-A-Fella' records, which lead to Def Jam.

Who else is putting seven figures down for unreleased rap tracks?

The music industry is a matrix that is counter to what is natural and right.

I listen to my old records and I think, 'How did I ever get on the radio?'