Austin Mahone Quotes

I'll tell you who doesn't get enough credit, Soulja Boy. He was the first one to do something, post it, yank it down, and sell more records because of it.

I hate that people have made the term SoundCloud rapper into a bad thing, because a lot of artists are underground and they don't have a way to put their music on. But to get that clout, to get that popularity, you might want to upload your music to SoundCloud - because how else is everybody going to hear it?

Social media being used to discover new artists is great. There's not a barrier to enter the industry. People can just post music and share it. And if it's good enough, and people like it, it will grow.

There will always be some kid who's the new Kurt Cobain writing great lyrics and singing from his soul. The problem is they're not marketing that anymore or putting it out there.

YouTube is an amazing platform for young musicians - although it's harder to get noticed now that everyone is on it.

A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.

Unless I've got Katy Perry on the cover of my CD, it's going to be tough to sell a lot of records.

YouTube provides a unique opportunity for all musicians to market and promote their music and directly engage their fans.

I just want to keep saturating the market and radio with as many hit records as I can.

After we wrote The Wreckoning, our record label did listen.

MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.

I think mp3s are great if you are unknown and trying to get started. It's a good way to get your music out and about. But for those who are established, it's not good at all.

I'm gonna stay an album guy. In fact, concept albums are really blowing my mind right now, because if you want to promote an album, think about it - a concept album might be the way to go.

I look at the artists as mini media companies, like if Beyonce is ESPN and Lady Gaga is Discovery.

When it comes to independent music albums, you cannot put in 50 lakhs or a crore in each and every song to first make a video and then even promote it. It's not possible for a musician or a singer to promote each song. It's not possible for musicians to do that independently.

Every time I do a dance track it's like I'll get a heart attack, because it depends heavily on the video, the hook line, the stars and the promotion. Any of these factors fail, the song fails.

There's not a great danger in releasing the first single from an album without a video because the momentum from the last album will cause large numbers of fans to buy it.

I put 'Ghost' online hoping to make a couple hundred bucks, but then the next day, I took meetings with five different record companies.

Usually albums are frontloaded with singles.

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.

I don't really know what a debut album is no more. As long as you got music on the streets, you've debuted.

It's tough, with the iTunes and all the downloads... You've really got to make an impact to be heard and be unique and different.

I posted some songs on MySpace, and right away people started asking, 'Where can I get a CD?'

Once we put 'So Anxious' out, it was a wrap.

That's what I love about the Internet - instead of having to wait on radio to play your song or TV to play your video, I can use the Internet as a tool to get my music out earlier.