Jorja Smith Quotes

It's called 'I Wanna Thank You,' and I'm encouraging everybody out there to blog, Tweet, Facebook, anything about it. Let's sign a petition. The petition is called 'Busta Rhymes Make 'I Wanna Thank You' Your First Single.'

After you make good, quality music, then it's your job to go out there and promote it and to market it and to get it out there to the people.

With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.

It's not essential for me to have a big debut week; it's not essential for me to have big radio records.

I enjoy putting out singles.

With pop songs, they usually have a three-month roll out.

Usually albums are frontloaded with singles.

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.

I don't really know what a debut album is no more. As long as you got music on the streets, you've debuted.

I don't want to release a CD; I want to release the real deal, so we're just gonna take our time.

Once we put 'So Anxious' out, it was a wrap.

I don't do albums for album sales. I just do it as a conversation piece and a business card.

I don't want to put out a CD of album songs. I'm gunning for every song to be a single.

I can work my butt off and create an album that's wonderful, but if it's never played and never given the outlet, it won't succeed.

When I put out 'Video Games' in May 2011, it was a 5:25-minute love song; I was surprised when a lot of people said they were listening to it. I was surprised when it went to the radio, without me even knowing how something like that even happens!

Distributing the music is so easy it's moot. So now the delicate art of calling attention to your music means everything. Marketing is distribution.

Maybe 'Can't Stop Feeling' and 'Turn It On' we'll just release as singles. It's a thing The Beatles used to do which I really loved, the idea of releasing something as a single completely on its own.

My music and my fan base is really built off of my lifestyle.

The music industry is saying, This is the format, and if you'll fit into this format, you can be on radio, and if radio will play you, MTV will expose you, and MTV will expose you, we'll sell records.

The label doesn't do anything but put your record in the store, that's all they do. And tell you, you don't have a single... and tell you, it's not gonna sell... that's what the label does.

I just want to get my music out and make sure that it's heard in the right way.

When you don't have a record label and you have been on your own as we have, you can look at all these other ways you can get in touch with other people and get music out there again.

I feel like I'd like to continue putting out records and start putting them out more rapidly than I have until now and for me if I can keep selling the records to the fans that already like me that's fine.

A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.

Nowadays, with the state of the music business, for any artist, whether you're up-and-coming or you've been in it for awhile, you have to explore different revenues and different ways of expressing yourself.