16 Quotes by Joe Galante

My experience is that country gets upset when you take a record to top 40 or AC before you take it to them or if you're working a record simultaneously, ... but we're not. We're working two separate records.

I don't get the sense that Wal-Mart is trying to enter the label business.

For Waylon, it was always about the music. The only spotlight he ever cared about was the one on him while he was onstage. It wasn't about the awards or events. He was an original and a pioneer in terms of creating his own sound. This is a great loss for the music world.

I got a phone call from Alan's manager, saying he was going to do a recording of gospel songs for his mom. He was just going to make a CD copy for her. I said I'd love to hear it.

It brought us to a city that doesn't normally put us on the map. When you look at the media going into the show, it was double in terms of coverage on the networks and in print. On all levels, we got more bang for the buck.

It certainly was evident the night she won.

Labels do a lot of things besides manufacture and sell records. We market musicians, we get radio stations to play songs, we help produce tracks and guide musical careers. Wal-Mart doesn't have an expertise in those things.

I still think the year is going to end up down for us, as it will for the overall industry. There are no late releases that are going to save us for the year. We'll just do better than the rest of the world.

We realized we'd be down as an industry this year. We didn't have the same caliber of releases and in the same quantity.