Art Quote by Kool Keith

Most of this innovative new music doesn't make money so it's regarded as uninteresting for the business people and considered as "underground".

— Eddy de Clercq

The underground always has the best ideas. Sometimes those underground artists transcend and make it to the mainstream, but most of the time, the…

— Kevin Abstract

Artists have so much more control of their futures - they don't need to rely so much on major labels or big companies to…

— Steve Aoki

It's sad that some people still believe that artists die poor. This is not the case in this day and age.

— St. Lucia

There's this weird misconstrued notion that everybody in this industry is rich. A lot of people in the industry are mad exploited. It's not…

— Ethel Cain

The less subsidy we have, the more the 'producers' take over, and the 'bottom line' becomes the raison d'etre. That's quite an unappealing landscape…

— Marianne Elliott

Artists are the people for whom the world is not enough.

— Paul Auster

If I stayed underground, the music stays underground. There's no other way of being successful, or bringing a certain type of music into the…

— La Roux

I think what's happenin' is that, with the overflow of music, it's been diluted. There was a time when people would go search out…

— Ice T

Many musicians will say they don't care about the money yet they must commit themselves to appear at given times and places, and to…

— Lynette Fromme

There are people who are like monkeys in a cage just hitting the coke button. They don't really get that for [musicians and artists]…

— Maynard James Keenan

You see so many artists who are so talented end up living sad, empty lives. This industry takes so much out of you that…

— Stacie Orrico