If you're part of a record company, you're a manufactured product. It doesn't mean that you're not talented.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you're making records, you're dealing with musicians' tastes, their goals, their wants, their needs, everyone's individual pride.
The intentions of record companies are not good, from the musician's perspective.
With technology you can now be your own record company, director, producer, etc. If you have talent, you can display it on the Internet and the world will tell you their thoughts in the matter of seconds!
You want to sell records, but if you want to call yourself an artist, your job is how you express yourself.
I'd be saying, 'No, I'm so not a DJ, I'm a producer.' But no matter how much faith you may have in yourself, until you have a hit you can't really run around telling everyone you're a producer.
Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist.
When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself.
You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage.
You don't need a record company to turn you into anything.
A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.