Music Control Quotes

Digital technology has eaten classic radio as we know it. Independent stations with disc jockeys who chose their own music have all gone; it's these huge parent companies that own a hundred stations and then decide what we should hear.

Just listen to all this sweet, sweet music. I'm working the music.

It's odd to spend your vacation with someone else's music especially when you're alone. You're free to let loose, unobserved, but someone else has chosen the words you belt out in private, the rythms you can dance to like a fool.

I've always been very much in control of my music and my image, and I think one of the things I've been lucky about is I didn't bring a label on board until I really figured out who I was.

I'm a little bit of a control freak when it comes to my music, unfortunately.

I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.

I just think that any person who wants music to be their career shouldn't focus on a record label. I have seen friends who sign to a label too early in their career, and they lost control over their music, and their releases were delayed or never put out.

I feel like when I listen to music nowadays, it's a lot of commands. It's a lot of demands. Do this dance, or feel like this. It's not like, 'how do you feel?'

I think Justin Bieber should let me executive produce his album.

Frank was the BOSS and was not open to anything that was not from his head. There were no arguments about music because if you did, he would show you where the door was. Period.

No matter where you are or what you're doing, it's always great if you don't have to get up and physically change the song that plays next.

I was worried Microsoft would take my music. But ultimately I talked to the lawyers and I still own it.

With Ghost Tunes, you just try to do what's right. And what's right is whatever the copyright owner wants to do with their music, they do it.

The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.

I wanted to stay independent because I figured there was no way I was going to be able to have control to create the type of music I want. I was basically ignoring a lot of labels.

Al Gore wanted to tell people what they could listen to and what they couldn't, what they could record. It was basically coming down to the idea that he wouldn't let anybody record any music that he didn't think you should be doing. There was going to be an organization that would tell you what you could and couldn't record.

The hardest thing with musicians is getting them not to play.

I understand that music is a business, but for people who have control of their stuff, like little Taylor and other artists, I think you'll find them standing up for their music every chance they get.

As far as the execution is concerned ... the most frequent and most serious mistake is to follow the music instead of preceding it.

A lot of times, that's hard to capture: what you sound like in person versus what you sound like on record. If I had total control, I would do a lot of the old songs - not only my songs but Sam Cooke songs, Luther Vandross, melody songs. That's what I would really do if I had an opportunity to do a record.

We do not let our music get used in commercials for commercial products.

After giving countless hit songs, I felt saturated. I decided to do music only for my own films and music albums. And so, I decided to start my own music label.

I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent.

To his orchestra Stop da music, stop da music! You're supposed to follow da music, not chase it all over da place.

If you think that the brass is not blowing loud enough, mute it by a couple of degrees.