The record industry discovered some time ago that there aren t that many people who actually like music. They discovered if they could sell music to a lot of those people, they could sell a lot more records. The whole music business in the United States is based on numbers, based on unit sales and not on quality. It s based on giving presents of large packages of dollars to play records on the air. Frank Zappa Modern music is people who can t think signing artists who can t write songs to make records for people who can t hear.
Major labels buy that something, and try to make more out of it.
Pat Boone You go through stages where you wonder whether you are Christ, or just looking for him. You ve gotta be business savvy really, or else you get the piss taken out of you. That s not easy to find in a corporate world, somebody who cares about music. It s magazines like HITS that have to label things. I don t kiss the world s ass.