Music Promotion Strategies Quotes

When the first record came out, I'd go down to radio stations pretty much every day to get the record played, and I would walk in and they'd tell us how much they loved the record, but they weren't sure how much they could play it because they were already playing a girl.

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.

There are thousands of great artists that wouldn't be doing the same kind of work if there were no music business machine. The ones who are popular would be doing much different work, too. Michael Bolton would be pumping gas.

When you're releasing an album, you never know how it's going to go. You never know how a critic is going to receive it or how much it's going to sell.

It's easy to get lost in the shuffle, and just enticing people to hear the music for free doesn't mean that much when everyone else is essentially doing the same thing on MySpace, or wherever.

Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.

The album is never finished until it's on the shelves!

I've never understood musicians who don't enjoy doing promotional interviews. I just can't believe it. I always think, 'Your life must have been so brilliant before you were in a band.'

I just want to get my music out and make sure that it's heard in the right way.

A lot of true Jamaican artists don't understand the importance of radio so tend not to tap into that as a result.

The music sold itself before anybody knew who I was.

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

The music business doesn't take up that much of my time. I probably should put a little more energy into it.

With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.

Well, it's been an interesting career. Since I last appeared on 'Top Of The Pops,' I've been doing about 150 live shows every year. The live shows have always been well received and they consistently worked, it's just the records that haven't been very good.

Some artists and indie musicians see Spotify fairly positively - as a way of getting noticed, of getting your music out there where folks can hear it risk-free.

I mean, when we put out our first album, it was 'Gosh, we really hope it sells 100,000 copies. That was the innocence.

We have meetings with our record label to tell them how to market us.

I think the best publicity I can get for my music is to conduct it.

When I release my music I will text Sharon Osborne and ask her about my songs.

If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.