Polo G Quotes

I enjoy selling my music. I don't enjoy selling myself.

I've been really trying to put people onto, like, my sound since I was, like, 17, 16.

I don't do albums for album sales. I just do it as a conversation piece and a business card.

Since the start of my career I've been doing a lot of music for films. It was important for me to focus on only that for some time, till I have a name that people can bank on, trust and support.

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

Now that I'm coming out with my own record people can see I'm a solo artist.

I feel confident that the work I've put in will make people see me as a music artist before anything else.

When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.

I had an advantage because people would post me on blogs because I had co-signs from Kanye West, Def Jam, and G.O.O.D. Music. Everything I put out, the blogs would put up. When I realized that, I used that to my advantage and helped build my following on my own.

At the time, the only options were playing the local county fair. Now with American Idol and younger recording artists that have come out, there is more of an opportunity.

What people are feeling is the similarity in what I do and how I'm capable of breaking a new artist into a competitive field. People can't wrap their head around the fact that Gaga did not do that on her own. She didn't. There was a Laurieann Gibson.

The truth is an artist like me who doesn't get the type of promotion that we see more commercial artists receive, and especially in this climate of the music business, you have to be creative about how you promote yourself.

I always wanted the world to hear my music, but I didn't know how I was gonna go about it.

As a Latin musician, I understand that there are so many places where people don't know who I am. My albums never came out in Australia or Japan.

It's like half the campaign of selling a record is trying to convince people that you're an artist. Well, I am an artist. This is what I do.

Jadakiss is not no walk in no park. Nas is not no walk in no park. These are dudes that could have ended my career.

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've been rapping since 1979.

In 1999, I just came out of putting out the song 'Vivrant Thing' and 'Breathe and Stop' off the 'Amplified' album. Clive Davis signed me to Arista.

If I say, 'Hey, I'm Psy.' 'Psy?' 'The guy from the video on YouTube?' 'Oh.' I hate that. I've got to be more popular than the video. So I need to keep promoting myself.

Since I was 20 years old, I've been a kind of corporation. I'd wake up in the morning and my job was to be 'Bonnie Raitt' in capital letters.

I didn't want to become a personality, I wanted to be a musician, but because I didn't have an album to stand by yet it was hard for people to see that. But now, two albums in, I'm happy with things.

Everybody know, I don't do no promoting. I don't ever have to promote nothing, that's the beauty of Lil Wayne.

Longevity has a lot to do with me continuously nonstop putting music on the shelf, and making myself be the face of the Bay, and continuing to carry the Bay on my back for many moons, you know.

I had a record called 'Touchdown.' It was really bubbling in my city, and I used to go to different clubs and perform.