Kat Edmonson Quotes

I just want to get my music out and make sure that it's heard in the right way.

If I had to play only for people who liked the music because they heard it on the radio, it wouldn't make me happy. That's why I'm working so hard to have, yes, a profile as an artist, but also a profile as a DJ.

I think some people record songs and make records a certain way to cater to radio. If you're born to make commercial music that's cool. But if you're born to not make commercial records, maybe you're meant to cater to another market.

We was able to become real successful in the mixtape space.

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

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.

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

I know that starting out as a young band, it's really easy to get lost with bands that sound the same or with the plethora of music that's out there.

When you don't have a record label and you have been on your own as we have, you can look at all these other ways you can get in touch with other people and get music out there again.

I was kind of going that route with my country music. Indie country. Which would work, if I was playing on Americana stages. Unless I had a television outlet like 'Glee'.

Nowadays, with the state of the music business, for any artist, whether you're up-and-coming or you've been in it for awhile, you have to explore different revenues and different ways of expressing yourself.

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.

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

You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it.

Anything I do has to have integrity, so if you just want to make music, it's not difficult finding support. The hard part for a publicist or manager is making a star.

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

More labels should be like that. Instead of putting these records out myself, I should have just signed with them, but they probably don't like my music (laughs).

I once worked at a record label called London Records. The company was owned by Roger Ames, one of the most successful figures in the British music industry. Roger always placed a value on loafing, on holidays, on not being in the office all the time.

Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.

I am passionate about finding undiscovered and talented artists. I want to help those artists get to the next level and provide existing artists with a new way to reach fans. I wanted to partner with the Cutting Edge Group because they share my vision and have a proven track record in innovation in the music business.

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.

Chance The Rapper makes some of the greatest music out, and he build his brand up organically, and the fans have reacted to it.

When I first started, I wasn't really aware of anything in the industry or aware of who I really was. I just put my music out there and tried to get as many people to hear it as possible. I hadn't really thought about the kind of music I wanted to make.

I want to keep the whole 'Lace Up' movement going. I want to take it national and international with a machine, a label.

People got to know us from hearing us live because there wasn't much publicity or radio airplay for a long time.