Chad Gilbert Quotes

The pop market is a very fickle market, and that's why for me to go into the teeny-pop, 'TRL' mode, it's not really for me.

When I first started recording, I was told by all of the experts in the business that the kind of music that I was doing was never going to sell. That disco was the coming thing and it was going to take over and what I was interested in was a minor sideline.

I think it's a reflection of the music business in general, which to me seems very fragmented.

If people are talking about you, that's great. You start making more money, that's great. You get to go to weird places, that's great. The music industry is weird, especially with the Internet. People are calling you all kinds of weird stuff, like 'jangly.'

People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.

You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels.

The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music.

I think some people record songs and make records a certain way to cater to radio. If you're born to make commercial music that's cool. But if you're born to not make commercial records, maybe you're meant to cater to another market.

My passion is music, you know, and music influences culture, influences lifestyle, which leads me to 'Roc-A-Wear'. I was forced to be an entrepreneur, so that led me to be CEO of 'Roc-A-Fella' records, which lead to Def Jam.

We have incredible record labels in Australia, but sometimes they have a preconceived idea of how to do things.

Music industry is a very competitive field, and one has to continuously entertain and excite the audience, which is a difficult task.

As a producer putting up music, I wasn't dropping a project to do this much numbers or make this amount of money, I really just dropped a project for the streets and the culture of music.

You got to understand: when you go into a record company and give them a something that doesn't sound like what's on the radio, it's hard to sell it.

I didn't realize how polarized an industry like music can be.

England's a small nation, and the pop music industry is built on fashion.

If you respond to pop music as an older person, then it's your game. But this business has a tremendously visual focus.

Interscope Records has always been a heat-seeking missile when it comes to shifts in popular culture, whether inciting them or reacting to them swiftly.

'Magic' is a word that's too often misused in the record industry.

I'm not really rocking with mixtapes no more. EPs and albums - that's it.

Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.

When no one's buying your records, it's easy to justify selling a song. But once you start selling records, you can't really justify having two songs in Cadillac commercials. It looks greedy. And it is greedy. This whole music thing should be about music.

I hate the industry even more now, no bands get nurtured anymore. Labels only spend money promoting acts they know will be Top Ten. I find it offensive spending $2 million on a video.

I become more seasoned, it's less interesting to try and compete in the pop market.

I know that starting out as a young band, it's really easy to get lost with bands that sound the same or with the plethora of music that's out there.

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