Music Publicity Quotes

Good bands won't get famous anymore unless they get really lucky.

People got to know us from hearing us live because there wasn't much publicity or radio airplay for a long time.

The hardest part about the music industry for anyone is getting into the ears of the world.

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 never do releases to try and make or break some contemporary band.

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.

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.

While working for Diplomat Records, I helped several artists with their online branding and social media. Once I left the label, I worked directly with artists and noticed many artists were overlooked and underrated if they weren't in 'XXL' or 'The Source.'

When 'Hide Away' first started gaining a bit of momentum, I was visiting at least two radio stations per day - sometimes in different cities - to spread the word about the song. It was a hustle, but so worth it.

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

And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it's catchy, and you've got a little bit of help, I think that's all you need. But there hasn't been that in music.

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

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.

As an artist, you make music. And if you see people who don't know how to market your music, you get involved in it. Otherwise, what you want to accomplish 'gets lost in translation' - no pun intended.

You don't make this kind of music expecting to have to do TV press and stuff like that. I don't mind doing it, but it's a fairly underground type of music. You do it for the love of the music more than being a star or anything.

I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.

The story of my life publicly has been told through 'Alternative Press.' Former employees, people who have worked there - my friend Ryan Downey, who wrote for 'AP' for a long time - I've been able to have really great articles written about me and talk openly about things in my life.

I was doing without for so long, not knowing the things that are normal for musicians. I was getting bookings regardless, people phoning or emailing me direct, and journalists were writing about me anyway.

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

I've made my records and I've done all the interviews. I've done lots of long tours. I've made stupid videos. I've done all that stuff and learned all the lingo and gone to radio stations and shmoozed with DJs on the air and met retail people.

I can work my butt off and create an album that's wonderful, but if it's never played and never given the outlet, it won't succeed.

There's people that have never heard our album. The most they've seen is either our video on 'TRL' or our picture on the cover of magazines.

You know, if nobody knows who you are, nobody's going to buy your record.

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

Critics don't sell records, unfortunately. No one reads what they write anyway.