Linda Perry Quotes

Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking a trend to death is not contributing to culture and is ultimately not profitable.

Record companies are not necessarily interested in you realizing your artistic dream. The bottom line is that they got to sell records.

Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame.

Revolt is designed to be a home for the next generation of musical artists, and we are investing in the artists and fans of the future. Revolt is for artists, by artists. This won't just be the P. Diddy network.

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.

I don't really hear much music these days that grabs me. I think there are a lot of reasons for this but the overriding one is that there aren't as many opportunities for a band to get good or experiment or start the next wave of something.

One need not fear for the future of music.

The intentions of record companies are not good, from the musician's perspective.

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

In 2010, aside from that niche of music that I have no interest in - Black Eyed Peas territory, disposable pop stuff - there's almost an incentive to go back to making music as adventurous and groundbreaking as you can, because nobody gets a big hit anymore.

The only thing I have no control over is the politics that goes on within the record company. It's always been the same, but it's far tougher now, because record companies are run by financial people; before, they were run by creative people.

As music became more profitable in the 1990s, it seemed like it attracted a lot of people who were just interested in the financial aspect of it, which is depressing.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

It used to be that Nashville would work to develop promising artists.

Superficial pop will always exist - there've always been Fabians - but when people like Dire Straits and Bruce Hornsby start having hits, it suggests that there's a revolution going on in music.

And looking at today's music scene, I think it's cool that there are a lot of consumers and fans not limited by what radio and the record companies tell them to buy.

Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money.

It's typical of record companies. They sign you because you're unique, and then they want to put you in a mold so they can sell records.

I've been working in the music industry since I was 15 years old, and I feel like I've always been ahead of my time.

In the history of pop music, a lot of great records cost an enormous amount of money. There used to be a time where people that had means to experiment would do it, you know?

To remain relevant though, I think making great records is the key.

The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

Pop music has progressed.