Saara Aalto Quotes

Any artist manages his own business along with his manager. Every band should.

I see myself as the buffer between the band and the record company.

The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.

I certainly don't want to be a record label guy.

You don't want the biggest record deal as far as money goes, you just want to make sure that the people at the label really support your band and the music and stuff.

We'll look at a bunch of deals that are being offered to us, and we decide where to go and continue on I guess. It's not too early to start considering our options with other labels.

I love producing. I have been producing some acts and starting a label.

If you have good songs and a real desire to make music, the next thing to do, instead of approach record companies, is to get yourself a really good manager because then it allows you to focus on your profession of being a musician. Then they can focus on the darker art of the record label and the music industry.

I wanted out of my record deal with EMI. They wanted me to record one type of album; I wanted to record the type of music I wanted to make.

I remember telling the head of Warner Brothers that if they'd just make a video for 'Ol' Red'... and if it didn't work, they could drop me from the label.

It is great to have your own label; you can cultivate your own artists... I've worked with pretty much everyone I wanted to.

I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company.

I certainly have gotten caught up in the music business at various times in my life, mostly because you want to get along with whatever record company you're dealing with. I don't want to be flaky. I don't want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician.

It's about finding great artists and being part of their careers.

I am not a piece of hash. I'm in charge of Factory Records. I think.

My A&R at Epic got fired the first week I got signed.

After giving countless hit songs, I felt saturated. I decided to do music only for my own films and music albums. And so, I decided to start my own music label.

It's not an uncommon event for artists and labels to part ways - Patty Loveless, Vince Gill both did - and it often happens for the better.

I've probably represented almost every major artist in the world, either directly or peripherally, at one time or another.

I want to invest and have my own record label and artists. I want to have a business where my kids, kids, kids will still have something going on long after I'm gone.

My whole team, it wasn't about putting the album out, it was about getting off the record company and going independent or going to another label. To the point we were like, 'Listen, just take 'Lasers.' You can have whatever percentage off the next ten records I do for the rest of my life. I just do not want to be here anymore.'

I left the entertainment industry part of my life behind in 1983, when we decided not to work with major record companies anymore.

I had to get out of my record deal that I signed with my previous band and get a full solo record deal going so, with all of the paperwork that, that entails it did take a while.

A record co. is just a vehicle for public appearances.

I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend that the record industry is an insidious affair. It's this terrible collision between art and commerce, and it will always be that way.