Rickey Medlocke Quotes

I hate the whole 'record your album, do your promo campaign, have a year off to write another album' pattern. As an artist, you should keep creating as much as you possibly can.

I was never in the business of trying to put my name out there - I was really focused on music and records and being in the studio.

I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music.

I believe in full albums, and whatever comes out of those full albums will come.

I no longer feel the pressure of trying to write hits for the radio anymore.

I guess if I'd have more of a producer attitude, maybe I'd sell more records. But I'm basically a songwriter.

I want to start recording and writing as soon as I can and get music that I love out as soon as possible.

My primary goal is to be a solo artist releasing original music.

I don't believe in the philosophy of stumbling across hit records.

It's pretty amazing to write under any circumstances when someone gives you an assignment to write a song, even if it doesn't get accepted. I've written songs a couple of times, some for Disney, that haven't actually ended up in their films, but then you're left with a song forever.

Motown's policy was to build one act at a time or their favorites.

The whole industry evolves around a great song.

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

I'm gonna put out another album and then another album after that. And then I'm gonna put out a mixtape, and then I'm gonna put out another ten songs, and then I'm gonna put out a hundred more songs and a thousand songs after that.

I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day.

It took a long while for me to even put out a record because there were so many options of how to do a song, and in some respects, I'm never totally happy with the outcome.

I don't have the desire to just keep every record and put it out. That's not what I do. I make records for people; that's why I just continue to be consistent, where a lot of the other top writers, they kind of fell off because they started focusing on their own careers as artists. That's not where my head is at.

I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.

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

We expect to keep our writing sessions going until late spring, then to play some new material in a few secret club dates. The record will likely take a long time and may not surface until 1999!

I've always wanted to make a record.

A whole album to one writer - now that would be really interesting.

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 think somewhere along the way I realized, 'O.K., no one's gonna care about a chubby Jewish dude rapping.' I realized I'd be better behind the scenes.

I'd love to be an artist always, but if no one wants me, I'd love to write songs for other people, be a manager, nurture new talent.