Cass Elliot Quotes

I sold my life to Capitol Records; it sucks.

A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.

Because the pop industry is cruel, if you don't do everything the label wants you to do, it has an army of other people waiting to do it.

I've been writing pop songs for pop stars for a couple years and see what their lives are like, and that's just not something I want.

I'll tell you what bothers me. This music business is so crazy. They think everything is a game, or everything is a fad or trend to win. I see people saying, 'My next album is going to be my honest album, the whole truth, nothing but the truth, my deepest secrets, the soundtrack to my life.'

It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore.

I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.

I don't want to sell my soul to Hollywood - to just make run-of-the-mill stuff.

I don't think I'd get caught up in the crazy side of the music industry because it's just not in my nature.

When you're on the pop treadmill, you don't always feel that cool because you have to do things to promote the record that aren't necessarily your environment.

Some people are the greatest people on Earth with good hearts and will get in the studio and make the most negative music in the world for the sake of success. That's what the music business does to you. That's what capitalism does to you.

It breaks my heart to see these young, really talented bands getting chewed up into the system. I remember a time if you'd signed to a major label it was such a sell out! But now... unless you've signed to a big label, you're a failure now.

I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.

Music became so commercialized that I just didn't want anything to do with it. I renounced the industry before it became the fashionable thing to do.

There's a fine line between artist and product. I don't think the industry purposely does it, but I think that's just the way they maneuver. You have to be careful that doesn't become your story, where you become a product, and your art is tarnished because you're just seen as a tool to make money.

'Push It,' to me, was very pop. And back then, you were called 'sell-out' to be pop.

I'm down to sell records but not my soul.

Honestly, I really can't speak on others, but in a sense, I feel like every artist always has their problems with the industry because we all want to have our creative way.

A lot of time, if you spend too much time in Nashville, songwriters get caught up in charts and numbers and the music business politics.

Never in my life have I met bigger rockstars than Sugar Ray.

When someone is a musician - trying to make a living off being a public figure - it's really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn't have a personal life.

Obviously, I would like to play to bigger audiences and have a bit more success, but not if I have to commercialize.

The music business is a crazy game, especially for somebody like me who is really a purist about the art. Trying to balance the pressures of commercialism, it's a tightrope. It's a fine line between sticking to your guns and insanity.

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