"The old model of the industry was founded largely upon business folk trying to make money off artists. At EMP, we let the music make the money, not the other way around. We have flipped the model to make the artistry be at the forefront of everything we do. Music makes the business and that's what makes it work."

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Source : Source: www.alternativenation.net

David Ellefson

#Artist Quotes #Trying Quotes #Making Money Quotes

“I look at every book as a self-help book.”
“My dad taught me true words you have to use in every relationship. Yes, baby.”
“People do care where their food, or other goods, comes from, not merely if the price is right. And that means no business can afford to ignore the impacts their buying practices have on producers and on the perceptions and choices of consumers.”
“I think grown-ups don't go to movies because they're much more discerning.”
“There are some good marriages, but practically no delightful ones.”
“Never serve oysters in a month that has no paycheck in it.”
“I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second Bush administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we've seen in the first administration.”
“In the first night of the Arvon Foundation course, Elspeth Barker said something about the newspaper along the lines of - and I'm paraphrasing - "I do these pieces for them and it's amazing, because I don't type it out, I just fax it as it is, and the literary editor has a machine that can transform my handwriting into typed text." At which point I put my hand up and said, "Actually, I'm that machine."”

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