Lionel Richie
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I mean, that's like going to a concert.
And the first song is, and the second song is, and the third song you go, where are we going to eat?
Something's got to switch up.
The lights have to change.
Something has to happen.
Otherwise it becomes monotonous.
I'm telling you, it used to be wonderful because the creative people were the guys who owned the labels.
When they started consolidating all the things.
In other words, they started buying up Motown, and then they bought up A&M, and then they bought up Mercury, and then they bought up Polygram.
Now you've got this big, giant... Okay, so it's Warner Brothers, Sony, Universal...
And then the independents and then the da-da-da.
And then it became one big... Just a machine.
A bunch of people who just want to make money and they don't make music.