Artists

“I think in this particular case, the artist and the labels are aligned.”

“Streaming is, is, is minutes away from being obsolete. What I meant by that is, unless they adapt to what artists really want, the artists are very resourceful.”

“You're gonna start to see that take place when artist sells work and they get a carry every time that work is sold. The galleries, which are the, at this point, necessary middleman, because the galleries are like, you wouldn't have an audience if it wasn't for…”

“It's helpful for an artist to think that way, because usually, especially when we're younger, we think the thing that we make is, this is my magnum, magnum opus, and this is going to define me for the rest of my life, and it's a daunting hill to climb. But whe…”

“Waking up and say, I want to be an actor or a director or a musician or a fine artist or a poet or an author is an act of insanity. You know, the odds of being successful are extremely small. So you have to, I, to me, respecting that journey is really, really …”

“And now the power of the platforms is so consolidated and the way they make deals and the way they think about our clients. Has really constricted the opportunity for artists.”

“Usually when you're sitting in a room doing a deal, those people aren't in the room. They don't want to be in the room when you're doing their deal. They want to be out of the room being an artist and they want you in the room, you know, hurting and killing pe…”

“What you're hearing about is that the artists are like, they used to be able to earn a living like that. But now, unless you're in that top chunk Of heavy, heavy, heavy, heavy streaming, the money's not really meaningful.”

“Historically these galleries would represent 10, 15 artists. Now the bigger galleries are representing 75 to 80 artists. Smaller ones are representing 25 to 30 artists.”

“We'll do a better commission split with you. You know, like, it's not fifty-fifty with us. We'll, we'll go sixty-forty. We'll go seventy-thirty. You want a signing bonus? Here's a million dollars cash up front. Like, go with us. Don't go with them. It's very c…”

“Some people think of art as like The most important cultural artifacts of a generation, and to be real, many artists are not making the most, most important cultural artifacts of a generation. They're making pretty things, and what are pretty things? Decoratio…”

“AI Causes you as an artist to really rethink and say, okay, my independence now is far more valuable. Because what I create can then be remixed, and in order for me to get an interest in that remix, and that recreate, and that, you know, further use, I actuall…”

“So some view them, view these models very much as tools and then others tend to view them as more of a collaborator in this process of creating, and it's always interesting to see what end of the spectrum different people lie on.”

“To me, if an artist has a hit record, And he doesn't like that record. He hates it. I think he put himself in prison for the rest of his life.”

“Dude, me, like working with engineers now, you know, with our new startup, I'm like, You know what? They are so close, it's as close as you can get to managing the artists by the way.”

“Okay, so I think that what this is gonna do, what AI art is gonna do is it's going to Significantly lower the barrier to entry to become an artist.”

“I think NFTs do offer a sustainable way for artists to make money, but there's also that is contingent on their ability to like build and maintain a network”

“And over sixty million dollars in sales for artists.”

“My, both my older daughters are artists, and I said, that is your plight. You're going to wrestle with your demons every single day of your life.”

“Record income traditionally has been your smallest piece of the pie because record labels have screwed over artists for generations. So you're always forced to go on the road and sell merchandise and do all of these other things to subsidize the income essenti…”

“If you go to business school, rule number one is that you have to listen to the customer and you have to give them what they want. But that's the basic, you know, thing that a business person will do. That's kind of the opposite of what an artist normally does…”

“It turns out that artists who were successful, usually knew artists who were successful, and they learned a lot from each other in their art, but they also helped each other get sales, and in Canada, the Group of Seven organized themselves to see if they could…”

“They transform within 18 months of continuous feedback and critique from their peers, and they become unrecognizable from where they started.”

“Well, the smart artists of today are putting themselves in a position to own their own music, their own copyrights. I think that it depends on the resources that the artists themselves have. Most artists aren't wealthy to the extent that artists need money. Th…”

“If you, if it's only a check, And the artist doesn't need a check, then it's going to be very hard for you to be associated with the artist unless you have a special service.”

“They actively want to subvert authenticity. And that's been something that, again, actually you could say almost the entire history of modern art is about challenging authenticity and authorship.”

“So you've solved the metronomic, you know, beat problem. And then what you actually find is that artists who are really good at this, they play off of it and they're allowed like when they sing to do many more like rhythmical things than they could do before. …”