Rob Brown Quotes

Well, you know, back then there wasn't many albums, it was the singles. You sold singles.

I may just keep releasing singles 'til I run out of music, which is kind of cool in a way - as long as people don't go, 'Oh my God, not another one!'

The 'Dangerous' album has producers like Tiny, who to me is very special. Also, Luny Tunes, Nesty La Mente Maestra, Nelly La Arma Secreta, Haze, and El Ingeniero. I wanted to use everyone who makes music in Puerto Rico and beyond to have variety.

Albums are great but for an artist like me, I don't think albums are the way to go.

If you just focus on making singles, you lose the personality of the record. Because everything is not meant to go to radio.

I did MTV so long because it's been really hard to find a place that has been able to keep my interests where I can do more than one beat.

How about no one's ever going to outsell Michael Jackson at selling records because the record industry is over. Game over. There's no more record stores. With no more record stores there's no more pressing plants. With no more pressing plants, there's no more charts.

I always wanted to make a three-record set. 'Sign o' the Times' was originally supposed to be a triple album, but it ended up as a double.

Today, the scope for variety has shrunk drastically. There are only a handful of topnotch composers like A. R. Rahman, Anu Malik, Jatin-Lalit... that's it.

You used to make records, record companies sold them, and people went to record stores and bought them. That's all gone now.

Like books and black lives, albums still matter.

I enjoy putting out singles.

In Presley's time, you didn't dare not to be a fan of his, because you were part of a club. Now you can say I prefer Billy Joel or Tina Turner or someone else. It's all fractionalized.

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

Nothing wrong about EDM. Great songs came out of it, but there was a period when everything had to have a pace of 128 bpm and be DJ-related.

As an artist, I am for non-film music as well. I want that to shine as much as Bollywood.

Today, there's so many different types of music out there that it's difficult to keep up. Things do change; it's only natural.

If you oversaturate the market with singles, then people will get sick of you.

Our focus is still on country, but, really, on whatever music our artists are making.

When I look at the life of those artists I admire, I believe that age isn't a big factor. As long as I have the capacity to accept a wide range of music, and have the ability to produce and make new music, I think I'd be okay as an older K-pop artist.

I wanted to be a disc jockey.

For me, I've always been intimidated by the computer coming from the era of record industry and record stores and buying records and looking at album covers, waiting in line for records when they came out and then ultimately being successful in a band where we recording pre-computer era.

There are so many artists, so many songs, so many producers, that it's hard to keep track of whose music is worthwhile.

It used to be OK to have two or three songs out a year - and those are your singles. Now, they don't want that. They're like, 'OK, I heard that. Next!'

I'll always work with Stones Throw, but I'm trying to start my own label to release my old material and sign new artists. I want to do everything from rock, to jazz, to electronic, to noise records and movie sound tracks. Both sampled and original music.