New Artists Quotes

Another thing about me dealing with the old school rappers, you see a lot of humility. When you're new, nothing is wrong. Everything is tight. Because you're trying to hype the world into believing in you.

I don't want to be an artist; I don't really want to sing - though I do sing on a few songs. But I want to be the guy that presents new music from both new artists and established artists at the same time.

I wouldn't specifically say rock n' roll is dead, but I don't see a lot of charismatic performers in the way of new blood who are edgy and dangerous on stage, like Marilyn Manson, who you never quite know if he's going to make it through his own show.

Well Ice H20 is my company that I plan to take to the next level with new artists, books, movies and so forth. It's more like a multimedia brand that I want to take to the next level and put some talented people on.

I think artists should be able to do different things whenever they want and I like the way I am. I'm like - I ain't gonna say the only street rapper, but the only mainstream, new, young street rapper there is right now and I'm doing well with it.

I won't lie - when you're first bringing out music and you want people to notice, you probably overdo it, especially as a girl.

Music changes every three months. There's always new artists coming out. There's always new sounds. There is always a new hit coming out. You gotta stay relevant as much as you can and feed your fans as much as you can.

I remember starting out and covering songs.

We are going back to our roots by cultivating new unsigned talent who otherwise might go unnoticed.

But the great thing about shows now is since we've been doing (Comedy Death Ray), they have lightened up on their booking policies a bit more and are booking somebody who isn't famous and who hasn't been around ten years. It's great to see people who've done our show - the first big show they've ever done - now they can play around town.

With Spotify, I think people are discovering a lot of artists they might not discover otherwise.

I think these days, new artists have a tendency to try to cut corners.

I've had so many conversations with new artists trying to figure out their careers.

Every movement that slays its gods creates new ones, of course. I loathe talk of the sixties and seventies being a 'Greatest Generation' of artists, but if we're going to use such idiotic appellations, let this one also be applied to the artists, curators, and gallerists who emerged in the first half of the nineties.

I listen to all kinds of music. I love underground, new music that's popping.

Here at Z100, we're kind of famous for breaking new artists and watching their careers bloom.

I want to get us out of a place where the veterans are chastising the new artists and vice versa. I think we should all just support each other.

I like working with new artists.

It's hard for new artists to keep hold of what they own.

As a DJ, it's my job to break new music. And instead of it just being the stuff that's coming from the major labels or the big pop records, I've always gravitated to something that's just different, you know?

Any band on their first couple records is just trying to keep up with their inspiration.

I know that starting out as a young band, it's really easy to get lost with bands that sound the same or with the plethora of music that's out there.

I don't recall being excited about a new rapper, ever.

In the music business, especially the country music business, every 10 years or so you're going to have this changing of the guard, this wave of new artists that comes in.

They use all of the music that I did in the '50s, '60s and the '70s behind people like Tupac and LL Cool J. I'm into all that stuff.