"Don't let anyone dissuade you or say, 'Let somebody else write songs for you.'"
"That's how I choose to move through my Artistry in this industry, so ownership is really important to me, and also creative freedom."
"A rapper who doesn't care about numbers, who is able to move based on creativity. That's how everybody needs to move."
"Prince controlled his own image, his destiny, and the narrative about himself."
"Dune lets you do the work on your own as you should as movie should be as art should be."
"Because it was happy with what I performed on the production that we had available at that point. But I was like, 'No, that's not what I would do with my album.' That was what I was doing to actually get the deal."
"I want this to stand on its own breath and if people are gonna like it they're gonna like it because of what it is and not because vanoss made it you know, no, that's right."
"That's like a true testament of success, know when you can make enough money to own your own art 100%."
"Neil is the walking embodiment of a self-made artist who's through the sheer force of his ability and will has carved out a space which is wholly his own."
"We always dreamed of putting out music that we made solely from us."
"Just find people that can write their own music."
"You don't need anybody's permission to go make your thing."
"Whenever you see an artist go off like that and kind of go off the path of what's popping, it's a good sign."
"It's what separates you from being the artist and being the employee."
"I am my own producer, my own writer, my own publisher... I own the entire process of everything I do."
"UA came to me and offered to pay me for a video about the pedals... and I told them if that's what this is going to be I don't want to."
"Easily bro come on took W's all year long are you kidding me he dropped a seven song Masterpiece with Daytona which was an instant classic hip-hop moment."
"Tyler really proved that a rapper could really just go into any Direction they want sonically and doesn't really have to play by any rules."
"I own all my own masters. I decide what I want to do and who I want to do it with."
"He used the guitar as a tool to get the songs done... he wasn't Eddie Van Halen he wasn't trying to be and didn't care."
"I started writing my own and... producing my own stuff out... so I had to... branch out and be me mm-hmm I had to you know I didn't want to be again y'all know I love my family but I had to do TJ I had to be myself."
"I think I'm doing something a bit different here. I'm not moving along that path!"
"True creative freedom... I own it now, nobody in a suit is going to come and tell me nothing."
"And it's real, so I would say like, never, um, never think that some label or some [ __ ] conglomerate monopoly of a you know, record label system is going to break you just because they're saying that they can."
"Inside Number Nine doesn't put this restriction on itself."
"Maybe we're not at the top of the charts, maybe we don't have these big-budgeted videos or maybe we're not included in the awards... but we're icons and we're happy and we're not being tuned out by a puppetry or a machine."
"I wanted the whole thing to be independent for me... say what I wanted to say and have the conversations I wanted to have."
"I don't care about being legitimized. If it's art, it speaks for itself."
"Hopefully, I can start to encourage a lot of other artists to understand the value of ownership and equity."
"I wanted to prove to myself... that I could write these lyrics without help from outside writers or anyone."
"Your intention of writing this and writing a book that you're proud of independent of the results is what we should all be thinking about when we create something."
"I'm not taking requests right now. I just want to do my thing, let the music take me where it wants to be."
"Every song we are doing has still some other vibes which does not make me think about Tolkien."
"Independently it's a good move for us because we got so much music and so much to offer to the fans."
"What makes J Hus the greatest for me is he doesn't need to do any of these things."
"The artist's independence is revered, and their boundary-breaking is seen as forward-looking and evolutionary."
"Perhaps what the blue boy actually represents is... an artist very early on in the early days of the royal academy actually being independent and going his own way."
"Olivia didn’t release the album through Hollywood Records. For that reason, her music was a lot less Disney-fied and sanitized, and more reflective of the reality of being a teenager."
"I adore the fact that she produced it herself, she wrote it herself, and it's just magic in the form of music."
"I respect everybody independent who's recording, who stay in the studio, who don't got no control."
"Her striking, innovative, and fierce independence struck a chord with the youth of the day."
"Biggest dream is to be just like self-sufficient completely off my art."
"For that is what they were, independent artists many with strong personalities and opinions but united in a rejection of the salons' restricted view of art."
"I feel like I'm doing enough of the right things in my path that I was trying to do while I was on the label."
"Don't let what someone else is doing in their studio completely affect what you decide to do."