Music Industry Manipulation Quotes

Probably the biggest bring-down in my life was being in a pop group and finding out just how much it was like everything it was supposed to be against.

Because the pop industry is cruel, if you don't do everything the label wants you to do, it has an army of other people waiting to do it.

You will have to look a long way before you find a bunch of scum-suckers more greedy, humourless and deserving of death than the suits in the music business.

I'll tell you what bothers me. This music business is so crazy. They think everything is a game, or everything is a fad or trend to win. I see people saying, 'My next album is going to be my honest album, the whole truth, nothing but the truth, my deepest secrets, the soundtrack to my life.'

I know the music industry is based on a lot of smoke and mirrors in a lot of cases, such as making things look like one thing versus what it actually is. I feel like I've been here long enough that I've surpassed the need for any of that.

I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in a racket. There's no way you can get involved in a racket and not someway be filthied by it.

The record companies really do conspire against the artists. Especially the black artists

It's unfortunate that music has become such big business.

It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore.

I got out of the music industry many years ago. I had a charlatan for a producer who I wanted nothing to do with. He's dead now, so I guess I can't beat that horse any more. It left a very bad taste in my mouth, so I just went on about my business doing what I do and not involving myself with record companies, except for distribution.

With Metro Station, there were too many people trying to control us. That's not the thing you should do with an artist, I think.