Ronnie Montrose Quotes

You want to sell records, but if you want to call yourself an artist, your job is how you express yourself.

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

I have just enough people paying attention that I have the freedom to be in charge. And I have a great record company - Nonesuch understands what I'm about.

I don't think the label cares about an album... People just want their number-one record.

I think that there will always be artists out there who think they need to sign a major label deal in order to be successful. And that machine is what is going to work for them - there's tons of examples of pop stars who need that machine.

We went into that knowing that we were never going to sell a major record 'cause we didn't sound like these bands, so I just thought this was an opportunity for us to make the kind of records that we wanted and make some money at the same time.

If you want a studio to back you, you want to be doing something that's been done to death!

I should be the one to say what I do. It's just not done that way anymore in Nashville, and I can't do it the other way. That's how our record label came about.

If I start trying to make a record for what I think could possibly get played on radio, I'm dead.

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.

Record companies worrying more about market share than developing artists - I hear there was a time when if your first record didn't sell 8m copies, you were still given a chance to grow as a songwriter.

There are thousands of great artists that wouldn't be doing the same kind of work if there were no music business machine. The ones who are popular would be doing much different work, too. Michael Bolton would be pumping gas.

It's great to be able to find a way to release your music and do what you want to do artistically and not have to just worry about being accepted by the major label industry.

The cool thing about G.O.O.D. Music is it's a bunch of great ideas, and I'm one of those ideas.

In my music career, I never was interested in working and writing and creating songs based on what kind of rewards I could receive in return - a hit song, per se, is what most contemporary artists have to deal with when they deal with a label.

All record companies want big-selling records, and my music is a little too raw for commercial success.

I have my own label and I'm my first artist.

I guess if I'd have more of a producer attitude, maybe I'd sell more records. But I'm basically a songwriter.

Interscope is run more like a rock band than a record company. It's run in a very spontaneous, heartfelt way.

Anything can wait for a hit record. That, after all, is what everyone wants at the end of the day.

I drop free music because I want people to know I'm still working. I want people to know I'm working and making my money independently. I don't want to charge for a mixtape; I'd rather charge for an album and really give something to my fans.

When I made my first album, there was no indication that anybody other than my parents were going to buy it.

I feel like once the song is done, you put it out there and if people want to do bizarre remixes, if people want to make strange videos, great. You know, like chaos theory applied to the music business.

I feel like I'd like to continue putting out records and start putting them out more rapidly than I have until now and for me if I can keep selling the records to the fans that already like me that's fine.

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.