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I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody.

— Lauryn Hill

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I want my music to be everywhere, I want it to be heard. I want to give people an opportunity to enjoy my music, and maybe even hear about this beautiful truth that's in it.

— TobyMac

No one told me I had to make something that would sell, but I personally want everyone to like my music.

— Utada Hikaru

I want people to come to my music without prejudice. I want them to get the music first. And who I am isn't that important. If they like the songs to me that's a good thing.

— Richard Thompson

We do this for the art, not the adulation. I'd rather our music get liked and we get ignored. I don't want to be adored for anything other than the music.

— Andy Partridge

I'm making music for the people. If y'all love the music, y'all gonna buy the music.

— The Notorious B.I.G.

You want to reach people, but you also want to reach them in the most authentic way. You now have a mass market and an audience that's listening, but they're in love with a song that means absolutely nothing to you.

— K'naan

I'm not interested in forcing my music on people, and that's what the whole music industry nowadays is based on is forcing stations to play it, forcing people to listen to it.

— John Frusciante

I just want people that like my music to like me.

— Kat Dahlia

✗Opposing Perspectives

If people would like to come to my concerts I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.

— David Gilmour

Distributing the music is so easy it's moot. So now the delicate art of calling attention to your music means everything. Marketing is distribution.

— Derek Sivers