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When I went to City of Bath College, I studied the music business. — Gabrielle Aplin

The Cream Does NOT Always Rise To The Top! There is a serious misconception, misconnection and mistake in this idea of thinking. — Loren Weisman

But the music business is no more about truth on the outside of the Christian ghetto than it is on the inside. — Mark Heard

The music business is not a good place for people who don't know things. — Mary J. Blige

The music business can be very cold. And it doesn't honor its elders. — Brenda Lee

Being in the music business is a totally different industry right there. — Christina Milian

I've always treated the music business as a business. — Simon Cowell

I always liked having a good time. I got into this business because I got fired from any job I ever had because I stayed out late playing music. — Jerry Jeff Walker

The music business is strictly business. — Kenny Rogers

Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue. — Faith Hill

From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future. — Mary Landrieu

The best decision I ever made, period, was to get into the music business. — Ja Rule

The music industry is a vicious business. It chews women up and spits them out. — Tori Amos

You can't be in the music business as long as "Steve and Edie" have, if you stink .. — Steve Lawrence

When you are a journalist in the music business, as I was, you end up dying or going to the gym - I chose the gym. — Tony Parsons

I tell people I'm big in the music business like a barnacle is big in shipping. — Vance Gilbert

The music business is really, really small. The real music is becoming almost extinct, if you don't stay true to who you are. — Mary J. Blige

When the music business failed to embrace the Internet, I thought it was game, set and match for the industry, and I quit. — Tony Fernandes

I have known from the beginning one thing you need to know. That is, the music business is a business. — Steve Brown

I'm excited about the old songs. That's a nice place to be after grinding out the music business for twenty years. — Five For Fighting

Who would want to break into [the music business]? It's like a bank that's already been robbed. — Randy Newman

The things Elvis has done during his career and the things he has contributed and created are really something very important to the music business. — Bing Crosby

Out of the ashes of the music business, comes the rebirth of the musician business. — John Perry Barlow

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business. — Loretta Lynn

I wanted to be great. And I loved Nashville, so that made it easy. I loved the music business. It made it easy for me to stay and make a life here. — Brandy Clark

I came from the music business, which reputedly has the biggest egos, but I really think the airline world caps it. — Tony Fernandes

I had no idea that I could sustain a career as an artist. But, I loved music and wanted to be in the music business. — Ray Stevens

I never had the feeling I ever had to make a dime doing anything. — Rick Rubin

The music is fun and all that, but first and foremost it is a business, it's about money. — Steve Brown

I think it's a reflection of the music business in general, which to me seems very fragmented. — Kathy Valentine

Most people involved in the music business, and it's probably not just the music business ... aren't necessarily people that I like. — Buzz Osborne

I wish there had been a music business 101 course I could have taken. — Kurt Cobain

Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I think the ordinary guy has just as much right to say 'This is a good song' as somebody who is in the music business. — Kenny G

The only thing constant is change, we keep going through it not only in Las Vegas but in every part of our business and culture — Steve Lawrence

The music business would be much better, for the youth and the kids, if they start hiring employees that understand the kids. — Suge Knight

I started in the music business I was first introduced to 1650 Broadway, uh, which was in reality where everything happened in the '60s. — Al Kooper

In the world of Big Macks Starbucks coffee and oversized SUVS it was business as usual snort and go — Saira Viola

The music business has let me touch a lot of people with my talent. — Britney Spears

The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer. — John Oates

In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best. — Gareth Gates

The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true. — Patrick Stump

The business has changed so much that they're able - we're able these days in the music industry to be able to control our own destiny. — Bobby Brown

I love the music business very much. — Connie Smith

I'm just trying to survive and stay relevant! That's all anyone in the music business can ask for. — Christopher Tin

I have major respect for Kenny Chesney and Carrie Underwood and Sugarland. They are wonderful. They're superstars in the music business. — Darius Rucker

There's much more money being brought into the advertising and communications business than in the music industry. — Steve Stoute

Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached. — Eric Clapton

Strategies are great, business models are great, but the reality is your music has to mean something to people. — Brother Ali

It's unfortunate that music has become such big business. — Rosanna Arquette

I hate that sense of entitlement or the sense of business crawling into playing music. — Joshua Homme

The music business doesn't take up that much of my time. I probably should put a little more energy into it. — Alan Jackson

Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do. — John Oates

The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit. — Tom Petty

Education is extremely important, especially in my business, the music business. — Ludacris

Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying. — Neil Young

I owe Elvis my career, and the entire music business owes him it's lifeline. — Cliff Richard

At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that. — John Legend

The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse. — Frank Zappa

I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have. — Ginger Baker

I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business. — Patti Smith

The music business used to carry a certain amount of brotherly love, but it isn't that way now. — Jimmy Rushing

Retire for what? What would I do? I made my name as a person that is helping. I'm like Moses in the music business. — James Brown

When I get asked for advice for a young person starting in the music business, I tell them, 'Play every chance you get, and be real lucky.' — Johnny Gimble

All movies, when they're about the music business, tend to have a bit of a wide latitude in terms of how things really were. — Chris Squire

Music is life, and life is not a business. — Iggy Pop

Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should. — Dan Hill

Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time. — Linda Barnes

I am involved in the creation of software, and I'm also in the music business. — Frederick Lenz

I was never in the business of trying to put my name out there - I was really focused on music and records and being in the studio. — Ariel Rechtshaid

Your uniqueness is your greatest strength, not how well you emulate others. — Simon S. Tam

I would say I know nothing about the music business, in a nice sort of way. I totally forgot I was in that music video. That's so funny. — Zooey Deschanel

You've gotta be business savvy really, or else you get the piss taken out of you. — Melanie Brown

Punishing people for listening to music is exactly the wrong way to protect the music business. — Moby

When I was 17-years-old, I was in the music business. — Scott Caan

My skin is an art gallery right, with paintings and crucifixes hoping to save me from all the dangers in the music business — Nas

I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business. — Randy Travis

It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style. — Gordon Getty

I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business. — Randy Travis

Music is everybody's business. It's only the publishers who think people own it — John Lennon

I still have a lot to learn - about the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting. — Britney Spears

As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving. — Tom Jones

The music business is really a spiritual business whether we know it or not. — Kurtis Blow

Music and the music business are two different things. — Erykah Badu

The music business doesn't interest me anymore. — Lou Reed

Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most. — John Lydon

Music is something I must do, business is something I need to do, and Africa is something I have to do. That's the way it breaks down in my life. — Bob Geldof

By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family. — Lawrence Welk

Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music. — Donald Fagen

As an improvising musician, I am not in the music business, I am not in the creativity business; I am in the surrender business. — Stephen Nachmanovitch

I always wanted to try to be a teacher even before I was in the music business. I liked history, and good teachers made an impact on me. — Billy Joel

When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate. — Alicia Keys

Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is. — Samuel Pepys

I think Sean Parker damaged the music business with Napster. — Curtis Jackson

If you had ever heard my album you would know that I could never consider the music business! — Dwayne Hickman

Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record. — Nile Rodgers

It's magazines like HITS that have to label things. — Nina Gordon

My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible. — Robert Smith

Those guys who want to have the Mohawk ... which, to me, is the new business casual. — Gerard Way

I'm a survivor in a business that constantly rejects you. — Dick Clark

You can do any number of things in the music business aside from trying to look like you're 25. To me it's embarrassing. — Grace Slick