Nina Nesbitt Quotes

Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.

I think some people think I'm, like, anti-label, and I'm not. I just wanted to sign a deal when the time was right. I'm anti being shot out of a rocket when you're not ready and the songs and image aren't there.

You gotta do a lot more than rap. Rap is not just rap. If you don't have an image, you're not capturing nobody's attention.

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

Well, I was making a record, and I had to choose a name, because they said, you know, you can't make a record under the name of Reg Dwight, because it's never going to - you know, it's not attractive enough.

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.

Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release.

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.

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.

Labels are curators of taste, and the best ones know how to monetize what an artist is trying to do.

Jimmy Iovine signed me personally to a million-dollar contract, and I lost my identity for a long time. That system is so predicated on making a hit, or you're out of here.

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

When I put my first song out, I didn't put out any pictures. I just wanted people to hear my music.

A lot of big labels will just sign bands like a write off.

If you are the record label who owns Lady Gaga, and you have a new artist coming up, you can say, 'Let's have the artist play just before Gaga.' Now you've exposed the huge Gaga audience to the new artist. It's similar to showing a trailer before a movie. The hit creates a hit.

You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way.

I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.

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.

This is a very screwed-up business. Record labels don't sign a lot of bands these days. We just want to find a home and stay there and make records and do our thing and not have to look over our shoulder.

I miss how a record label can help spread the word that you have something out.

Artist development is something that I've been passionate about from my days at Uptown and Motown Records.

If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media.

If you're part of a record company, you're a manufactured product. It doesn't mean that you're not talented.

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.

There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.