Jay-Z Quotes

I feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music.

I just wanted to have my own dynasty. I wanted my own Cash Money or Roc-A-Fella. Outside of that, I also wanted my own media company.

My number one goal is to take over the music business and run a really great record company.

I'm just focusing on 'Let's Stay Together' and slowly building my production company. I'm trying to get into writing as well.

I would love to continue working behind the scenes in music - to produce and manage up-and-coming musical talent would be a dream!

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.

I don't want a record company, but I need one, unfortunately.

I started my own record label.

The music business doesn't interest me anymore.

Yeah, man I am going to be writing a book soon. The reality of being in a rock band in the music business'.

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

I once worked at a record label called London Records. The company was owned by Roger Ames, one of the most successful figures in the British music industry. Roger always placed a value on loafing, on holidays, on not being in the office all the time.

If you had ever heard my album you would know that I could never consider the music business!

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.

Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to start a record label.

In 1985, I went to work for MTM Records, Mary Tyler Moore's Nashville record label, and stayed three years. After that, I spent two years as an independent promoter, then worked for MCA Nashville Records, DreamWorks Nashville, and Universal Music Nashville.

Working with Tesco has been such an interesting avenue to go down that I'm keen to find other avenues to release music.

I'm so glad I didn't go into the big-music industry until I was 19 or 20.

I'm just an artist that makes good music and has a good idea to make money off of that.

I'm looking at EarDrummers like a boutique label, like an Interscope or a Def Jam.

I've been doing my record label for 15 years called Dim Mak. I started my label when I was 19 in '96. I started putting out an eclectic roster of artists. In 2003, we found a band called Bloc Party, and in 2004, we started getting remixes for Bloc Party, and at the same time I was throwing Dim Mak parties in Los Angeles.

When I was 17-years-old, I was in the music business.

The BBC were not playing the music that was happening on the street so we did an independent production because we knew we had an audience. Then we licensed the album to EMI.

As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving.

I have had the good fortune to experience both the limelight and the traffic light as a musician. I did my first recording on my own and it was available at concerts. The second to seventh were released on small and then large labels. My eighth to 14th were done under my own steam once again, but with the benefit of the Internet.