Music Advertising Quotes

It's hard to get people at a record company to talk about music. They don't seem to want to talk about music, it's all marketing, and that's part of a record, you gotta get it out there, people have gotta hear it, but you could do it in a way that's not repulsive.

I really hate it when I see other bands selling their music to commercials.

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.

I don't like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, 'Oh God, another one bites the dust.'

I never want to predict the relationship between music and advertising.

Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.

Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.

There has never been any proper commitment to marketing these artists and their music. We are not Sony.

I remember when metal was something you really had to search out, and now I hear it on car commercials.

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.

Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with.

I'm slightly ambivalent to the whole relationship between the whole advertising world and music. I think sometimes it works and sometimes it's a really bad mismatch. I think on this occasion its fine because the iPod is like your own mini-library and that can't be a bad thing. It promotes eclecticism and that's very much what we are about so it's a good relationship.

Brands are spending hundreds of millions of dollars trying to get to young people by using music as the vehicle. Being able to use music data and making it actionable so they can target and speak to these fans, that's super important.

There's nothing remotely interesting to me about marketing music as a product.

I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That seems strange.

Branding your song is the worst thing you can ever do. That's turning your song into a product.

I think musicians should stay off television generally.

Mix-tapes are something that have been going on for a while. They've been pretty important to hip-hop for the past 10 years. It's the way we advertise our music to the public for free.

In France a lot of songs were ruined by their associations with commercials. But so far no Apple commercial has ruined a song for me.

In whichever way my music can get out there, I'm just like, 'Sure.' It's also through the TV synch licenses that I've been surviving. I don't really make money through record sales. I used to be really picky: 'No, I don't want it to be the song of a commercial,' but nowadays it's what you need to do to get the song out as much as you can.