“Music is hard – you can’t wait around to be blessed with a charming first draft” Ellie Rowsell, Wolf Alice


“I sometimes forget that I don’t have the level of anonymity that I had before; I still go about my business as if no one knows who I am, and I’m quickly reminded that is not the case!” Cynthia Erivo


Hannah Neaves, UMR


“Elton John is the godfather of British music – he makes us better at our jobs every day”


“The UK houses a rich, diverse, creative and unique artist community you’d be hard pressed to find anywhere else in the world” Glyn Aikins, RCA


“At the BRITs it was clear that a new generation of British talent is connecting. It all comes down to backing original talent” Briony Turner, Atlantic


“It’s a universal truth: people love Jeff Goldblum!” Tom Lewis, Fontana


artists, what are you doing to help?” Kate Nash


Marc Robinson, Globe & Globe Originals


“I woke up at four in the morning and Max Richter was still playing – I thought, ‘How is he doing this!?’” Laura Monks, Decca


“You can have brilliant music, presenters and guests, but if they don’t excite your audience? You have a brilliant failure” Dari Samuels, BBC Radio 1Xtra


“It almost


“Independence is a different way of doing business; it’s caring about the art as much as the commerce” Gee Davy, AIM


“There’s huge energy at the moment for UK music”


“Caring isn’t enough: if you profit from


feels like we’ve returned to the traditional way of breaking an artist, just on different platforms” Lucy Dann, Island EMI Label Group


“Tate McRae said to me, ‘Oh you know, boys and their sports cars’ – I had just bought a sports car so I was like, ‘Yes, I do, I very much relate to that!” Ryan Tedder


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“The things I care about, I’ll always care about… I was actually going to say, ‘I really fucking care’ and sound a bit edgy, but that’s not really it” Emma Bownes, The O2/AEG Europe


“There were times when Bruce Springsteen would turn to me and say, ‘Is that me, or is that Jeremy Allen White?’” Scott Cooper


“Connection, community and representation aren’t buzzwords. They have meaning in people’s lives” Emma-Lee Moss, ESEA Music


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