Jon Platt

“if you're making a great living off be star selling beats you're only picking up one piece of the income do i mean you're only picking up the piece of the income of selling the beats you don't know you don't know what's happening what you're earning on the publishing side if you're earning anything if you're selling th...”

— From Abe Batshon and Jon Platt Talk About Their Ground-Breaking Partnership, BeatStars (June 26, 2022)

“i view there's no sony music publishing without the songwriters because there is no sony music publishing about the songwriters there's no john platt without the songwriters and so i i you know for many years i've always said songwriters come first songwriters come first songwriters come first not the other way around”

— From Abe Batshon and Jon Platt Talk About Their Ground-Breaking Partnership, BeatStars (June 26, 2022)

“I just learned how to work around situations like, oh this is happening, okay I'll work around that. This is going on, okay I'll work around that. And whether it's right or wrong or fair or unfair, I honestly I don't really know to be honest with you. Actually I do know, but I don't really care to the level to where wh...”

— From Carole King & Jon Platt: Notes on Inclusive Leadership | SXSW 2021, SXSW (March 01, 2021)

“My responsibility is to do a great job because if I do a great job and I create opportunities for a lot of people, and I think a lot of people they lose sight of that and they get caught up in the fight. And the fight is important, but you also have to be great at what you do. That's the biggest thing that you have to...”

— From Carole King & Jon Platt: Notes on Inclusive Leadership | SXSW 2021, SXSW (March 01, 2021)

“I was working with Jay and I was seeing that he was eating a good portion of the samples and I didn't feel that was fair because he didn't bring the sample to the song and he was being charged with it and I just got aggressive with it and I say you know what he's not gonna eat any samples anymore and we really changed...”

— From Rap Radar: Warner/Chappell CEO, Jon Platt, TIDAL (October 01, 2018)

“I don't know what urban means. I view it as a way to make it accessible to others but what people don't understand is that hip-hop is the most inclusive genre in the world. We don't have to dumb it down by calling it urban.”

— From Rap Radar: Warner/Chappell CEO, Jon Platt, TIDAL (October 01, 2018)

“I think one of my talents so they say is is knowing when to step in and when to step out. I rarely comment on a song while it's being written during the writing process. I learned that early on in my career and I'm just very truthful. What I've learned in all my years is that the ones that are at the top it's not an ac...”

— From Jon Platt Honored with SESAC's “Visionary Award”, SESAC (May 04, 2015)

“If I wasn't a publishing executive honestly don't know what I do or what I'd be doing. Music grabbed me at such an early age but I what I can say is I'm here for the long haul and music is in me like it runs through my veins like I am Who I am but a lot of people helped get me here. I think if you work hard enough and...”

— From Jon Platt Honored with SESAC's “Visionary Award”, SESAC (May 04, 2015)