Artist Quotes: Q-Tip On His Biggest Challenge In The Music Business...

"A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art don’t really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren’t savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don’t know how to satisfy both palates. I hope this doesn’t sound scathing but they’re not visionary enough to know how to do that. So dealing with those personalities and the people who run this music thing has been most challenging. It’s hard to really communicate things to people who run a business yet forget the nature of the business. They only look at the bottom line and the financial return, you know, they forget what it is they’re packaging. It’s art. That’s the biggest challenge." {Source}