George Clinton Quotes

Those record companies don't know what's happening at all.

I think the pop industry is still a young man's game.

The 'rock world' is a lot smaller than it used to be. It's doing a lot less things than it used to be. From Woodstock back in the day and Rage Against the Machine, no one sells millions of records anymore.

I'm wide open and will entertain anything anybody has to say, but if it's MTV and radio, well, they're great things, but can't be the only thing. I don't know that it would work even for the Beatles.

Independent artists and labels have always been the trend setters in music and the music business.

Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs.

The music industry is so cool because it's constantly changing.

The record business has always mystified me. Sometimes there are reasons why things sell or don't sell that can't be understood by mere mortals.

I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades.

I know that starting out as a young band, it's really easy to get lost with bands that sound the same or with the plethora of music that's out there.

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.

People say, 'How's the record doing?' In the old days you'd say, 'We're at 600,000, it's doing great.' You don't say those things anymore. Those numbers are gone.

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've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part.

The Philadelphia/New York world of the music business is a tough place to be.

I decided to combine my musical background, business education and creative abilities - and go into the record business.

When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - were run by people who loved records, people like Ahmet Ertegun, who ran Atlantic Records, who were record collectors. They got in it because they loved music... Now, record companies are run by lawyers and accountants.

I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET.

With pop music, the format dictates the form to a big degree. Just think of the pop single. It has endured as a form even in the download age because bands conform to a strict format, and work, often very productively, within the parameters.

The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

Back in the day, the album was king in many ways. And, of course, we were very tied in with the birth of FM/college radio in the States, and what we were doing suited the format of those young radio stations.

I think it's a reflection of the music business in general, which to me seems very fragmented.

The market didn't define the music; the music defined the market.

Everyone in the music industry is so fun and laid-back.

The music scene is more competitive in the States.