Mary Lambert Quotes

It's always the music first for me. But if the music isn't selling, there isn't gonna be no business. So you gotta make sure music is always the first priority.

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

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

Back in the '90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle.

I was so moved by music that I wanted to create it as well, but once you decide that's what you want to do with your life, to be successful, you have to be business-minded, too.

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.

Hip-hop is a beautiful thing. I think that the music genre itself has created more millionaires than any other music genre before it, especially in our community.

If you earned money listening to music, I'd be a millionaire.

Recorded music is more a marketing tool than a revenue source.

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.

When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record shop? But I think we all agree that radio stations are good stuff.

It's a small percentile of people who see one dime out of the music business.

I've always treated the music business as a business.

I mean, the way I see it is, every penny I've ever made through music is free money.

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.

I knew when I went to a very hippie high school that focused on music that I wanted to do something in the industry.

The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial; it was something very personal to me.

Being famous is having the power to really implement positive change in the world, and it gives you the power to do what you want. I'm really grateful for it because I can play music and people will listen.

Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.

In this age when people expect to get their music for free, we have to work out how we can protect the rights of creative artists so they are compensated fairly and that the record business itself remains sound and healthy.

No one starts playing my kind of music to make a fortune. But I do want to keep doing what I do and I do want to continue selling records. And I would, eventually, quite like some money.

The fact that people still know us is, in my opinion, a result of our music and of the big money that runs the music industry today. The people who control the industry are accountants who recycle everything in new, nostalgic packages, and everything else, to make more money.

The 'music industry' is not a term I use. I tend to concentrate on music, and the music business is something different.

I just wanted to have my own dynasty. I wanted my own Cash Money or Roc-A-Fella. Outside of that, I also wanted my own media company.

If you're going into music, work on your music and do it as well as you can. And look at it as a business. I'm in it to make a living, too.