Jerry Heller Quotes

United States, Businessman
October 6, 1940 – September, 2, 2016.

Gerald Elliot "Jerry" Heller was an American music manager and businessman. He was best known for managing West Coast rap supergroup and gangsta rap pioneers N.W.A and Eazy-E. He rose to prominence in the 1960s and '70s, importing Elton John and Pink Floyd for their first major American tours, and representing Journey, Marvin Gaye, Van Morrison, War, Eric Burdon, Crosby Stills and Nash, Ike & Tina Turner, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Otis Redding, The Who, REO Speedwagon, Black Sabbath, Humble Pie, Styx, The Grass Roots and The Standells, among many others.

The problem of the Panthers is that they scared people. The music of N.W.A didn't scare people; it taught people what it was like to grow up in our inner cities.

Jerry Heller
- Music
- Cities
- Grow Up
I've probably represented almost every major artist in the world, either directly or peripherally, at one time or another.

Jerry Heller

The more parents hate the music, the more their children will like it. It had been true with Elvis, and it had been true with the Rolling Stones. 'Straight Outta Compton' was music that parents could loathe with a passion. I knew we had a massive hit.

Jerry Heller
- Music
- Children
- Parents
I am what I am, but I'm not a thief. And I'm not scandalous.

Jerry Heller
- Thief
- Scandalous
I was always excited about doing things with people that were ahead of their time, that were sort of out of sync with the rest of society.

Jerry Heller
- Time
- Society
- Sync
There are two kinds of people in the entertainment industry: Those that close deals and those that don't.

Jerry Heller
The music business and I were made for each other.

Jerry Heller
N.W.A. were the first great rap audio documentarians of the problems in our inner cities.

Jerry Heller

I was always a champion of the minority, of the underdog.

Jerry Heller
I'm a child of the sixties. I grew up with a president who was a crook, who put us into the most unpopular war in history, who had no communication with people under thirty. I had seen the Symbionese Liberation Army and the Panthers and the Diggers; I understood what they were about.

Jerry Heller