“If the four majors became members of Merlin, we would give them a big kiss. But so far, there’s no kiss,” – Michel Lambot, founder and board member, Merlin, and co-president, PIAS Group, is all prepared for a love-in.
“We’re interested in the long term [artist development]. But it’s nice when it happens fast too,” – Domino’s Laurence Bell.
“We just Googled ‘white elephant’ and ‘dome’ and we got 650,000 hits coming back at us telling us it wasn’t very popular,” – David Campbell on AEG’s research into the O2 Arena’s former life as the Millennium Dome.
“We had to invent the digital market. It didn’t exist,” – Beggars Group’s Simon Wheeler on the early days of the download era.