Patrick Whitesell Quotes

If you have good songs and a real desire to make music, the next thing to do, instead of approach record companies, is to get yourself a really good manager because then it allows you to focus on your profession of being a musician. Then they can focus on the darker art of the record label and the music industry.

I love TV. I love being behind the scenes on a TV show but there's something about, I don't know there's something very special when you've signed an artist and that first record comes in and it's a good record. It is an indescribable feeling.

I've probably represented almost every major artist in the world, either directly or peripherally, at one time or another.

Mostly I've never let record companies become involved with my music, which was a very smart thing that my first manager Dave Robinson did, to keep them out of it.

The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.

I certainly don't want to be a record label guy.

I have been skeptical and not trusting of traditional models of the entertainment industry. I never got a manager.

My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.

We'll look at a bunch of deals that are being offered to us, and we decide where to go and continue on I guess. It's not too early to start considering our options with other labels.

I love producing. I have been producing some acts and starting a label.

And I'm working with all these great people at Sony Publishing.

As an independent artist, you're always figuring out how you're going to fund your next album.

I've been part of running a label since I was a kid, so I understand how it works. But the more and more I learn about it, the less and less interested I am in it.

Any artist manages his own business along with his manager. Every band should.

At the end of the day, you sign a record deal and you understand where it could go if you had the right song.

When I approach a band, I want to respect them and be respectful of their music. I'm not gonna say, 'Look, you guys are real hot, so we'll stick you in the movie, and we'll get it in all these stores and all these stations.' That isn't right.

I'm from Israel, so America has no limits. I started a record label, and then I started managing other artists, like Liza Minelli.

It is great to have your own label; you can cultivate your own artists... I've worked with pretty much everyone I wanted to.

I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers.

I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company.

I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.

Would I have signed to Def Jam if I knew they was deaf? Nah.

I'd always been a club kid, so I was totally unaware that people had their own record companies.

I don't see myself ever being in a position where I need to sign to a label.

I was honored I was signed to Sony. But later I felt like they weren't the right team.