The Music Business Quotes
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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
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
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
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
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 don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot - the methods of releasing music.
— Anthony Kiedis
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
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
The music business doesn't take up that much of my time. I probably should put a little more energy into it.
— Alan Jackson
I hate that sense of entitlement or the sense of business crawling into playing music.
— Joshua Homme
The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.
— Tom Petty
Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.
— Neil Young
I'm just trying to survive and stay relevant! That's all anyone in the music business can ask for.
— Christopher Tin
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
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
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
Yeah, man I am going to be writing a book soon. The reality of being in a rock band in the music business'.
— Steve Brown
I hate the business part of music. Music is just like the streets. There's loyal and disloyal people, people saying one thing and then don't do it.
— Schoolboy Q
Get into the music business. This is the business that you have absolutely no requirements. You listen to music, you need no college degree.
— Curtis Jackson
Everyone faces challenges from the fierce competition as well as the manipulative crooks that are rampant throughout the music business.
— Wendy Starland
I'm an indie artist with major distribution, so one foot in the extreme major music business and one foot in the abyss of indie artists.
— John Oates
I really worked with icons in the music business, which really had a strong effect on me. It wasn't just pick-up gigs.
— Kevin Eubanks
You can't ever really replace Jon Anderson because he's been such a force in the music business.
— Chris Squire
Strategies are great, business models are great, but the reality is your music has to mean something to people.
— Brother Ali
The music business has let me touch a lot of people with my talent.
— Britney Spears
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
Artists of today can be inspired by the past, but they have to apply present methods if they want a future in music.
— Loren Weisman
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
In the world of Big Macks Starbucks coffee and oversized SUVS it was business as usual snort and go
— Saira Viola
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
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
The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.
— Frank Zappa
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
Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time.
— Linda Barnes
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
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
Punishing people for listening to music is exactly the wrong way to protect the music business.
— Moby
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
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 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
I came from the music business, which reputedly has the biggest egos, but I really think the airline world caps it.
— Tony Fernandes
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 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
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
Music and the music business are two different things.
— Erykah Badu
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
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
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
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
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