Joe Budden Quotes

The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing.

I hate the whole 'record your album, do your promo campaign, have a year off to write another album' pattern. As an artist, you should keep creating as much as you possibly can.

I think if you're creating music, and you love the song, holding it back is just doing it an injustice.

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.

You put a piece of music out, and it's not in your hands anymore, and that's cool with me.

I set out and I said I wanted to just release music, and I don't care how many people heard it at first. And I just wanted to put records out. I knew that.

I think that Napster is the greatest invention since sliced bread. Napster, to me, is liberation and freedom for artists.

I was always putting songs on the Internet, but I was never into pushing them on anyone.

I'm trying to give people the chance to put out their music without the bullshit pressures of other labels.

I someday hope to find the time and coin to invest more of my creative energy towards the visual media side of releasing music.

For me, I don't feel all the pressure. I make music, and I release it because I like it myself and I want my friends to hear it from me.

I want to be in control of how my music is released and how I create it. What people don't talk about when they talk about major labels is how many artists get dropped or funding gets dropped when they don't recoup quick enough.

I feel like an EP is for practice and an album is the game.

Working with Tesco has been such an interesting avenue to go down that I'm keen to find other avenues to release music.

A lot of labels always feel the need to tell you how they think the music should be marketed and what songs work best where. I say make music you love doing, come up with a strategy, and put it out there.

I put out my first song with no intentions of being famous.

I started singing and writing songs since childhood and later started releasing my independent music.

Even if it's a song I know isn't gonna do that well, I'm dropping it as a piece of art, so I always want sick visuals to go with it.

I always knew I wanted to create original material, and after having meetings with all sorts of record labels, I decided that Sony was the right place to do it. They knew what I wanted to make and gave me the freedom to express myself.

I make records all the time. But making records is not quite the same as getting them to the audience.

I think what I've learned to focus on is my music, and that's why I made my record independently.

Albums are great but for an artist like me, I don't think albums are the way to go.

I remember at one point, with a previous release of mine, I stumbled upon a shareware site, and the total number of downloads was in the thousands, maybe the hundreds of thousands. But there's no doubt that the Internet and that kind of sharing has been a huge benefit for the band.

My whole goal in this industry nowadays is to keep doing the underground stuff, but to be able to add vocals that are sexy and underground.

'Angel Of Death' was a big problem. I remember getting a phone call after the album was done: Sony wasn't going to release it.