QUOTES

-"You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream, You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself!" ...says Diana Ross -"An artist who doesn't have a web site has lost me..."...says Jaime Feldman, rock A&R at EMI/Capitol in Los Angeles, in an interview with HitQuarters, and he continues: -"The first thing I do when I find an act I like is to go to the web site or do an Internet search to find as much material as I can on them." -"Industry people aren't listening to demos anymore..."...says Scott Johnson, manager for David Banner (US Top 10), -"so if you're really serious about what you do and you have something that people want, it is in your interest to go ahead and release it." -"Artists need to stop thinking that a record company is going to change their lives, because it isn't..."...says Tim Cook, manager for US rock band P.O.D. (US multi-platinum), and continues, -"A record company is a partner who can help them take what they've done to another level." -"Really great artists all have one thing in common: they have voices that are immediately identifiable..."...says John Williams, Senior VP of A&R at Sanctuary Records UK, and who was instrumental in breaking the song "Mad World" (European Top 10), taken from the Donnie Darko soundtrack, by Gary Jules and Michael Andrews. -"I don't see downloading as a big problem."Based in Helsinki, Finland, Seppo Vesterinen manages rock bands HIM (German Top 3) and The Rasmus (German No. 1). Read the interview, by Kimbel Bouwman