Elizabeth Fraser Quotes

I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.

You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it.

Rock n' roll is a pretty fun job.

Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.

I really just dabble in music; I really just did a few albums for my fans.

The only thing I've ever offered the public is some music. If they like the music, that's great. Turn on the radio. If they don't like it, switch it off.

I listen to my old records and I think, 'How did I ever get on the radio?'

I plan to make records as long as people wanna keep listening to them.

We were lucky in the days of Led Zeppelin. Each album was different. We didn't have to continue a formula or produce a certain number of singles. Because, in those days, radio was still playing albums. That was really good.

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.

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

I can reach the mass audience if I come from different perspectives on every song.

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

I don't spend much time listening to the records when they're done. Usually I let go of it. Especially in the Eighties and Nineties - they were like product, almost.

In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that.

I've never worried about how a new release will be received. I simply try to do the best I can and leave the rest to the gods. The music industry in those terms is something I loathe and detest. It conjures up images of a gigantic factory spewing out parts of the machine.

There were a lot of times where there was a great deal of fodder recorded and played, because there was a market for it - just as there is today. And there were more bad bands than there were good bands - I think that should always be remembered.

I think basically lables were more interested in a Richard Page record than a Mr. Mister record.

I never do releases to try and make or break some contemporary band.

I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones.

When the band begins to get a name for themselves, and the writers get assigned to bands, they'll hit somebody who just doesn't like that kind of music, or they love hip hop but hate guitar rock.

I think that's the problem in a lot of music. We've got these record labels.

I hope I don't give music a bad name.

I hate record labels. They think they know everything. I want to hear them try to sing it.

'Vinyl' is a good look at the music industry. The script was honest.