Top 40 Music Marketing Quotes
#1. I love the incredible variety of demands directing makes on you, from the entrepreneur to the hustler to the deal-maker to the writer; to directing actors and the camera and working with music, sound, marketing and promotion. It uses so many sides of your brain.
Tom Hooper
#2. I went to school for marketing for one year before I dropped out of college to make music.
Theophilus London
#3. All true artists in the world from all countries and all genres are influenced by Michael Jackson. There were music videos before Michael Jackson, and there were music videos after Michael Jackson. He brought such a huge change in the marketing and positioning of the music video.
Sonu Nigam
#4. People used to make records, as in the record of an event, the event of people playing music in a room, and now everything's cross-marketing, its about sunglasses and shoes, or guns and drugs that you choose.
Ani DiFranco
#5. The music that I make is pretty sincere; it's from my heart and I love it, and what just happened is more people have started to connect with my heart, and I haven't followed some kind of marketing scheme,
Esperanza Spalding
#6. To me music is music. A person of faith, a person that calls themselves a Christian, they are the Christian and they make music. Some music has more to do about God than other music, but in reality what makes the difference between "secular" and "Christian" music is simply a marketing channel.
Michael Gungor
#7. Anyone who separates being and doing is still enjoying separation.
David Deida
#8. Happiness does not depend on what you have or who you are, it solely relies on what you think.
Gautama Buddha
#9. Music is always occurring. It is just a matter of marketing, attention, and many other factors, that determines whether people will hear these songs or not.
Judy Collins
#10. Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#11. Do not assume that people are seeing you. The more you can clarify, optimize, and engage your fans and strangers with branded marketing and merchandise, the better chance you have of being seen and then heard.
Loren Weisman
#12. The marketing is just as important as the music, almost.
Robyn
#13. Recorded music is more a marketing tool than a revenue source.
Irving Azoff
#14. I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.
Elvis Costello
#15. In the Middle Ages, bloodletting was often performed by barbers, which is why the traditional barber's pole - like the bloody towels that once hung outside barber shops - is colored red and white.
Cary McNeal
#16. There's nothing remotely interesting to me about marketing music as a product.
Mark Edwards
#17. I found that when I was putting my own music out, with my Twitter feed as the pure marketing budget, I'm preaching to the choir.
Trent Reznor
#18. Polygamy was common [amongst the Navajo], but women had superior property rights, owning sheep and the houses. A man who deserted his family would be destitute -- a powerful incentive to stay married.
Timothy Egan
#19. I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture of music.
Tom Waits
#20. A life with Ren was harder to picture. We didn't look as if we belonged together. It was like matching up Ken with Strawberry Shortcake. He needed Barbie.
Colleen Houck
#21. Ray and I do not draw salaries, Any profits will be re-invested into marketing the music we believe in.
Steve Vai
#23. Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.
Nile Rodgers
#24. I got really tired of metal music. How do you pick what's good to sell when you're not totally into what you're listening to and marketing?
Blake Judd
#25. The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things ... Anything outside that, they just don't know what to do with it.
Don Bluth
#26. After the shooting of John Lennon and the early death of so many great stars and the utter naked venal mercantile marketing of pop music and rock music, I don't think anyone really believes that music is anything more than another commodity.
Stephen Fry
#27. My mom was an actress, so I got with her boutique agency back in 2001 and started booking a few commercials. She's like my co-manager.
Tequan Richmond
#28. I used to read music books when I was 13. My mom was working at a library. She's a librarian. I would get my mom to check out any kind of books that had anything to do with the music industry. I read a lot about royalities, publishing, marketing, stuff like that.
Juicy J
#29. 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.
Henry Rollins
#30. There has never been any proper commitment to marketing these artists and their music. We are not Sony.
Eddy Grant
#31. Either way, it will cost you. You will for pay for your education or pay for your ignorance.
Kathy McClary
#32. Our weaknesses are an opportunity for God to show his strength.
Michael Horton
#33. There's nothing important on earth, except human beings. There's nothing as important about human beings as their relations to one another ...
Ayn Rand
#34. Just as like the music industry still wishes for the days when it controlled its own production and distribution, the media and marketing world still yearns for the silver bullet of the thirty-second spot on 'Seinfeld,' even as it knows those days are over.
John Battelle
#35. Your uniqueness is your greatest strength, not how well you emulate others.
Simon S. Tam
#36. My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.
Deana Carter
#37. Inequality is corrosive. It rots societies from within.
Tony Judt
#38. Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.
Devdutt Pattanaik
#39. As the world's getting filled with temptations, we're getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle.
Freida Pinto
#40. 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.
Derek Sivers
