Scott Storch Quotes

I don't really like meetings, I like recording and performing music. I need to set myself up for when the time does come that I need better distribution or just a bigger team behind me.

I enjoy touring. I enjoy recording the music, I enjoy dreaming it and I enjoy performing it. I also definitely enjoy selling it, because I like to eat.

Charts and learning the politics behind making a record - it's pretty soulless.

That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them.

I've only had one platinum album, and it's 'Red River Blue'.

Being a recording artist, selling music, selling concerts out, having a reality show, starting film; it's great, it's beautiful.

I did my thing with Jive. I was a national recording artist, but I had run into a wall.

The music business doesn't take up that much of my time. I probably should put a little more energy into it.

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.

I was with PolyGram; that was the big label that I was with for the longest, like 12 years.

The music business is rougher than the movie business. In film you get noticed in a small role, even in a movie that bombs. But in records you better have that hit or else it's 'See you later.'

I am going into the adult market because they don't care what label you are signed to or who you know.

I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands.

I want to learn - there's so much I have to learn about what it takes to be a recording artist, about what it takes to go on tour.

I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.

If you put out quality music, you're always going to be in a good place.

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.

I feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music.

The music industry is really difficult.

My goal is a Grammy so my songs will have to be good.

A lot of electronic musicians probably wouldn't be bothered making an album, which strategically makes total sense.

The music industry really is a meritocracy on a creative level.

In my opinion, you just have to make the music. Make the music and work as hard as you can to get it out there.

With a Grammy, if you're releasing your record with a major label, you have a chance with any record. You also have a very long shot with every record.

I'm just an artist that makes good music and has a good idea to make money off of that.