Jack Conte Quotes

Jack Conte

Profession : Musician

Birth : July 12, 1984

The interesting thing about membership is that it's, by its nature, a very emotional transaction. It's a tie to an artist. It feels like voting with your dollars: I'm voting with my spending, voting for the creator.

Jack Conte

You can say something, make something, and be rewarded for it by the people you're speaking to.

Jack Conte

On the Internet, it's not just content that's king. It's regular content. But models like Kickstarter don't work for regular content. And the advertising you earn on YouTube is nice, but it doesn't seem to assign the appropriate value for the amount of work and passion that goes into certain types of content.

Jack Conte

If I can get 2,200 people to give me $2 a video, and I come out with a video a month, it becomes a good income.

Jack Conte

Everybody wants to be able to enjoy beautiful things.

Jack Conte

I'm not an entrepreneur.

Jack Conte

It was so weird to see such a discrepancy between the value that I feel like I'm giving to the world and the value that the world returns to me in dollars.

Jack Conte

Whether you have a barbershop or you're a local restaurant owner, there's lots of tech for you to understand your business.

Jack Conte

Within two months of Patreon's launch I starting making $6,000 a month for my work with the support of my 'patrons.' The platform makes creators legitimate members of the workforce and is really helping to break the idea of the 'starving artist' by allowing them to earn a regular income.

Jack Conte

Patreon is here to give control back to artists so it doesn't need to be a hard conversation when a kid tells their parents they want to be a musician or a photographer or a comedian. It should be the same as wanting to be a doctor or a lawyer.

Jack Conte

I learned all about big band arrangement and symphony arrangement and writing for strings.

Jack Conte

I got to compose for a full symphony orchestra.

Jack Conte

A lot of people hear the Pomplamoose story and think the moral of the story is to post your stuff on YouTube. I don't think that's the moral at all. The moral is, go where the people are, and be innovative and different. Make something unusual.

Jack Conte

There's a tendency for young musicians - I certainly was guilty of this - of wanting to know what they sound like, before making their first record, before releasing things. But I think that's the wrong order of operations. You only find out what you sound like, when you have five records under your belt.

Jack Conte

The music world is a big world, and chances that you're going to happen to know somebody are slim. Pomplamoose really just got lucky in that we got a connection at iTunes.

Jack Conte

I've dealt with a record label in the past.

Jack Conte

In truth, a label is nothing more than a corporation, and it funds artists. Why couldn't another corporation fund an artist? And instead of having Capitol Records at the bottom of your CD, it says Hyundai. Why not?

Jack Conte

The whole idea behind YouTube is accessibility and openness.

Jack Conte

There's a difference between what people will consume and what they will pay for.

Jack Conte

There's a history of artists being taken advantage of, and artists have to keep criticizing and keep skepticism at a high level. I think that's mission critical. Artists have to be educated, and choose wisely and watch platforms carefully.

Jack Conte