71 Quotes by Michael Rapino

It's a very competitive market. AEG has a ticketing platform, Stubhub has grown their marketshare, Vivid has come out of nowhere. It's not like venues don't have options. If you're a venue you can pick any ticket platform you want, and we have to provide a better product and win that business fair and square.

My kids, my health and my job are all equally important.

In early days of Live Nation, we really believed it was important to be a direct-to-consumer business, which the labels aren't and no promoter was at the time. By merging with Ticketmaster, we could we give the artist a direct relationship with the fan.

A hit is a hit, and when you have a hit great things happen.

I'm known for having a very small to-do list and a big don't-do list.

Part of calling ourselves Live Nation was about starting to shift the way we think, to be first and foremost fan-focused.

Every city's got a famous rib place or coffeehouse or dessert place.

I probably go to 100 shows a year.

To be the music company of the future, you have to figure out a way to be a great business and distribution partner of younger bands, midsized bands, and ones that break out, like Arcade Fire.