Sam Hunt Quotes

I can do whatever I want now. I can drop seven songs in two weeks and fans don't care about whether it's from an album or not. They just care about the music.

I always thought that if record companies didn't understand me, fine - I'd go and do it by myself.

I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part.

Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively.

Because I'm not in a record deal, I don't have to operate in an album format.

You go through periods of times where bands are calling the shots, and then sometimes, you've got the record companies calling the shots. I think it has to be a bit of both to make the thing work.

One of the hardest things about being a musician is finishing a project and then having to wait three or six months to publish it and to do all the sort of promotional behaviour.

I like releasing singles because I can get them out there quickly and it's based on the changes, the sounds that are going on all around the world that I'm hearing and just a whole different bunch of influences which is sometimes hard to get across on an album because it can take a few months or a year to come along.

It's more my own thing if I do instrumentals, but I also do really love collaborating with vocalists, so it's a good balance.

When you're 17 and a record label says, 'Hey, do pop,' you listen.

I don't make music for the radio. And when I was being played on the radio a lot, I didn't.

When I did 'Ephorize,' I didn't know that later on I'd be releasing another album. It just came.

If I could have stayed independent from the jump, then, maybe, things would have been different. 'Return of 4Eva' would have been an album instead of a mixtape.

There were a few labels scouting me, but I felt like G.O.O.D. had my best interest at heart. They gave me the freedom to really do what I want, which is to expand my brand, make great music, and find ways to elevate my sound.

I think when you finish an album, you tend to have your favorites, where a lot of the time are not the singles.

Manny Smith & Interscope CEO John Janick understand me and my vision for myself and also my label. Interscope gave me the opportunity to take over the game completely, and that's what I'm going to do.

When I was coming up, I was, and am, producing, mixing, mastering, and writing everything. I would say that all the time. For one, self-sufficiency is a message that should be put out there: you don't have to outsource everything. Two, I'm proud of it.

That's what I do: I drop albums, and I just keep it moving.

When I got my first email from a record label, I decided I didn't want to go in with just one song, so I sat down and kept on writing.

In the past, I've allowed myself to record songs that I wish I had not, but agreed to for one reason or another.

A lot of people in the music business are a bit doom and gloom, People say it's probably easier to write sad songs than it is to write happy ones, so that's maybe why. I just wanted to be a bit positive about things rather than always being negative.

When we are making our independent music, we know our directors and what's happening around as we are paying for it. When it's a movie song, it's not you who is doing everything it's the creative heads and production house.

There's no rush to ever put out a new Cheap Trick record. We put it out when we feel like it.

Giving a record company an album is like giving a gangster your baby or something.

Even I would be unhappy if the final track did not sound good to me, which is why I stay in the loop with the music team till the song is ready.