Music Business Quotes
The people on the business side in the music business are kind of different from the theatre business. I think it's partly because there are different pressures on the industries.
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.
I attended a post-college program in L.A. for Music Business and Production. Took several courses involving Music Production, Arrangement, and Songwriting.
I'm still as fascinated with the music business as ever. I'd love to do an electronic album like Prodigy or Underworld. I really like that sort of music.
The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing.
Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.
The music business is really, really small. The real music is becoming almost extinct, if you don't stay true to who you are.
I think now the music is good. I tell people all the time who like to be in the music business you got to have a hit record.
Punishing people for listening to music is exactly the wrong way to protect the music business.
I think I am like everyone else in the music business these days - you have to adjust to the times and deliver whatever people want, and are using to consume the music.
Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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.
I don't envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways.
I started in the music business I was first introduced to 1650 Broadway, uh, which was in reality where everything happened in the '60s.
The music business doesn't take up that much of my time. I probably should put a little more energy into it.
Commercial to the core, Elvis was the kind of singer dear to the heart of the music business. For him to sing a song was to sell asong. His G clef was a dollar sign.
When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate.
I think I've always felt as a band and as a musician and a music business person, I've always felt like an outsider, period.
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.
In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It's not so competitive.
Blacks own so little of the music business, it's pathetic. But I see that changing soon. Black artists, black businessmen and women will unite.
The music business - and I guess you could say any artistic endeavor - usually rewards those who are on the leading edge of where everything is going, but you can't be too far.
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.
I suppose that by being absent from the music business, it appeared that I just dropped out, but really I never did. I was continuously working and doing various things.
The unifying thread through all these different aspects of music business is just my attraction toward working with sounds and designing new scary, evil, dark sounds.
I never even went to high school because I went straight from middle school into the music business. I don't really know what it is supposed to be like.
You just plant a few seeds, cultivate the shoots, and watch your career grow and branch out. It takes time and dedication. There are no overnight success stories in the music business!
I'm just trying to survive and stay relevant! That's all anyone in the music business can ask for.
I have major respect for Kenny Chesney and Carrie Underwood and Sugarland. They are wonderful. They're superstars in the music business.
Barry Manilow is a guy who's had a tremendous longevity that few have had in the music business. I'm in awe of what he does.
To come out in the music business, you only really get one shot. A lot of people get to play small gigs first, and build up that way, without anyone really seeing them.
If you had ever heard my album you would know that I could never consider the music business!
I'm excited about the old songs. That's a nice place to be after grinding out the music business for twenty years.
Since I have spent many years of my life living in Los Angeles, and since I'm also in the music business, I know that much more is talked about in Los Angeles than ever really occurs.
I was trying to find my way into the music business still, but I didn't want to portray something that I wasn't. I really wanted to be just me.
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.
Music business is hard. It's very difficult. And it's not for everyone. Even if you can sing or even if you can write a song, it takes a lot of determination, it takes some kind of thick skin.
I've withdrawn many times. Part of me is a monk, and part a performing flea! The fear in the music business is that you don't exist if you're not at Xenon with Andy Warhol.
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.
But the music business is no more about truth on the outside of the Christian ghetto than it is on the inside.
I decided to start my own label because so many people with talent come to me wanting to know how they can get in the music business.
What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history.
The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.
