G-Eazy Quotes

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.

Back in the '90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle.

That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them.

I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.

It's always the music first for me. But if the music isn't selling, there isn't gonna be no business. So you gotta make sure music is always the first priority.

Recorded music is more a marketing tool than a revenue source.

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

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.

Being a recording artist, selling music, selling concerts out, having a reality show, starting film; it's great, it's beautiful.

Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.

There are people who are genetically made to start record labels, and I'm not one of those people. People just have it in their blood and are good at it. Corey Rusk from Touch and Go and Ian MacKaye. These are people who have made their own labels.

I'm just focusing on 'Let's Stay Together' and slowly building my production company. I'm trying to get into writing as well.

I would love to continue working behind the scenes in music - to produce and manage up-and-coming musical talent would be a dream!

First of all, I think that is true, if you are a musician, particularly on the come, that you do have to end up in one of these musical centers, some way, to be viable, saleable and so on.

I did my thing with Jive. I was a national recording artist, but I had run into a wall.

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.

I've been part of running a label since I was a kid, so I understand how it works. But the more and more I learn about it, the less and less interested I am in it.

Since I was 17, I had been just making records and promoting them.

I was with PolyGram; that was the big label that I was with for the longest, like 12 years.

I started my own record label.

The music business doesn't interest me anymore.

I never intended to set out and be a singer-songwriter. I just sort of became one because I put out my own record.

I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.

My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time.

I even have nephews who make music, my daughter makes music. I don't know what advice to give them these days. It's really a tough industry to break into.