Even Quote by Ben Howard

Any time an English band came to Paris we went to the concert. All the French crowds were really bad and really blase. We…

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

We were a very popular live band in London, packing in 6,000 people a night, and the record companies that came after us wanted…

— Dave Clark

We have not had a ton of innovation and marketing in the concert industry, much like the record industry. We have been a fairly…

— Michael Rapino

Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the…

— Ian MacKaye

So many venues are owned by these various different ticketing and promoting people, and they're all in bed with one another. It's no secret…

— Imogen Heap

When I arrived, I didn't understand London customers perfectly, but we've developed the right style with the right price, and step by step, I'm…

— Alain Ducasse

Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so…

— Ian MacKaye

With places like Spotify and YouTube broadcasting these days, you get a track made in San Francisco broadcasting in London moments later, so it's…

— Bonobo

We didn't have that big-label push. We weren't the kind of band that our label Warner Bros. Records was going to throw all this…

— Wayne Static

I had met American artists and just couldn't believe their energy. London was always such a struggle to get anything going.

— Roselee Goldberg

Moving to London was a culture shock, but in a really good way. I'm more aware now, and I'm less trusting of people in…

— Nina Nesbitt

There was nothing radically different about what we were doing musically or image-wise, and yet in L.A. there'd been total indifference, so to come…

— Russell Mael