Shelby Lynne Quotes

So there was a way for you to get promoted and survive as an artist without worrying about AM radio hits.

The music business is rougher than the movie business. In film you get noticed in a small role, even in a movie that bombs. But in records you better have that hit or else it's 'See you later.'

I got really noticed by record labels and that's how I got signed.

Obviously, my label would want me to be on the radio all the time, but that's not my personal goal.

We had an EP out and all of a sudden we find record companies are interested in us, and we're thinking, 'Oh, that's really nice, but we don't think we're ready for it.'

I always wanted the world to hear my music, but I didn't know how I was gonna go about it.

I'm gonna be honest. I don't care about much. I care about people liking my music. I made it very far without nothing being on radio.

Good bands won't get famous anymore unless they get really lucky.

I don't tweet very much. I still believe in the mystery of an artist. I believe in going out when I'm ready to sell my product. A lot of artists are out there every day. But I remember the Julio Iglesiases, the Jose Joses - and it was about the music.

I once worked at a record label called London Records. The company was owned by Roger Ames, one of the most successful figures in the British music industry. Roger always placed a value on loafing, on holidays, on not being in the office all the time.

At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music.

I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.

When we started playing our music, there weren't really many bigger punk bands. We wrote for ourselves. We weren't expecting to get a record deal or get on the radio.

I know how hard it is to make it in the music business.

In my opinion, you just have to make the music. Make the music and work as hard as you can to get it out there.

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.

I had to work a lot. I was doing YouTube videos, but I wasn't getting a lot of love. How do I make a living off rapping when no one knows me? I got kind of discouraged. But hard work shuts people up.

I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business.

I got about 6037 songs I wrote myself and I'm trying to get them on the market and I just wish people could hear them and stuff but they'll do pretty good.

I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.

I don't really like meetings, I like recording and performing music. I need to set myself up for when the time does come that I need better distribution or just a bigger team behind me.

The music industry is saying, This is the format, and if you'll fit into this format, you can be on radio, and if radio will play you, MTV will expose you, and MTV will expose you, we'll sell records.

All these interviews I'm doing - this is the kind of stuff that I was dreaming about doing when I was younger. I was praying for people to want to write about me. I wanted people to hear my music. I wanted to perform. I wanted to be on billboards.

I was kicked off a record label and didn't get picked up again. It was devastating at first because I thought, 'Oh my God. My career is over. What's gonna happen? What am I going to do?' Once I got that I could have a career, a very good career, without having a hit record, then I changed.

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