Quotes about Music Business

Music is spiritual. The music business is not. Votes: 4

People don't buy plastic and paper, they buy emotions. Votes: 3

I attended a post-college program in L.A. for Music Business and Production. Took several courses involving Music Production, Arrangement, and Songwriting. Votes: 3

When you hear my records today hear a vanilla sounding artist with no black inflection, although I was trying to imitate what I heard. Votes: 3

Rock n' roll is poison put to sound. Votes: 2

I want to hear the word 'cherish' about 5 times. Votes: 2

Music and the music business are two different things. Votes: 2

He took my music, but he gave me my name. Votes: 2

You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing. Votes: 2

I'm a survivor in a business that constantly rejects you. Votes: 2

Just because it happened to you, doesn't mean it's interesting. Votes: 2

The way I see it, rock n' roll is folk music. Votes: 2

If this company is about anything, it's about discipline and staying focused. Votes: 2

The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer. Votes: 2

I've made hundreds of legendary records that people talk about that didn't sell. Votes: 2

The music business can be very cold. And it doesn't honor its elders. Votes: 2

I wish there had been a music business 101 course I could have taken. Votes: 2

The music business is not a good place for people who don't know things. Votes: 2

The music business is really a spiritual business whether we know it or not. Votes: 2

In Los Angeles, they don't want you to fail, they want you to die. Votes: 2

We're the McDonalds of rock. Were always there to satisfy, and a billion served. Votes: 2

The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings. Votes: 2

I never had the feeling I ever had to make a dime doing anything. Votes: 2

To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It's exhausting. Votes: 2

If the milk industry can make their product seem sexy and increase consumer demand, there must be hope for music. Votes: 2

Going to radio with a rap record prior to going to the consumer is like having no foreplay with your girlfriend. Votes: 2

Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear. Votes: 2

Anybody that forms a group, writes songs and releases records and says they don't care if people like them are complete liars. Votes: 2

American music is something the rest of the world wants to listen to. Our job is to make sure they pay for it. Votes: 2

I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business. Votes: 2

I hate to say this, but at the time, (late 70's) it was like the smart people liked punk and the dumb people liked Journey. Votes: 2

If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors. Votes: 2

Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works. Votes: 2

I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Books are so cheap and easy to get that people don't bother stealing them, which is the essential rule of piracy that the music business learned much too late. Votes: 2

I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable. Votes: 2

I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in a racket. There's no way you can get involved in a racket and not someway be filthied by it. Votes: 2

I've done well, I've been disappointed, and I think it all goes back to you. Of course the labels are going to be the labels. It's the music business. You are a business. That's what they do. So you've got to protect yourself. Votes: 2

We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us. Votes: 2

This rise of the new global mega-rich is happening as established institutions are falling. The fall runs the gamut from the music business and traditional media to the Detroit automakers who find themselves obsolete, outmaneuvered, and out-priced by entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, Mumbai, Shanghai, and even Siberia. Votes: 2

The whole music business in the United States is based on numbers, based on unit sales and not on quality. It's not based on beauty, it's based on hype and it's based on cocaine. It's based on giving presents of large packages of dollars to play records on the air. Votes: 2

The music business is very hard on women over 22. You really have to prove yourself every time you make a record. Are you as vibrant as you used to be? Are you as sexy? So I really want to prove that a woman in her 30s can be all those things and more. Votes: 2

We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on. Votes: 2

Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman. Votes: 2

I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out. Votes: 2

The '60s was a magical time in the music business. So much creativity and talent. I think a lot of it came from the fact that we had grown up before rock n' roll. We listened to all the great songwriters and big bands, songs with great lyrics and melodies. I think that really influenced everybody. Votes: 2

I found that so many people in the music business started out as metalheads in the Eighties - whether they're songwriters, producers, engineers or executives, and no matter what they look like, with short hair, suits or whatever. I feel like my generation of metal kids really tends to populate the music world to a large extent. Votes: 2

For the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it's doom and gloom and you have to spend millions of pounds on marketing and this and that, you have this amazing thing now called fan power. The whole world is linked through a laptop. It's amazing. And it's free. I love it. It's absolutely brilliant. Votes: 2

I think the path is different for everybody. Go after the doors that are open to you. That has always been my motto getting into the music business. Do the things that seem to be good opportunities and work hard at it. Try to make good decisions and be nice. Hopefully all of that will pay off at some point. Votes: 2

From being a little girl in the projects, going through all of the mess that I was going through, to ending up at the Inauguration for the first African-American president, I'm speechless right now because I never thought I'd - I never ever - I couldn't even see that far. Even when I ended up in the music business, I couldn't see that. Votes: 2

The music business is strictly business. Votes: 0

I love the music business very much. Votes: 0

The music business doesn't interest me anymore. Votes: 0

I guess music in general is the transportation business. Votes: 0

It's unfortunate that music has become such big business. Votes: 0

I've always treated the music business as a business. Votes: 0

I have always abhorred the business end of music. Votes: 0

I have always abhorred the business end of music. Votes: 0

Music is life, and life is not a business. Votes: 0

When I was 17-years-old, I was in the music business. Votes: 0

I think Sean Parker damaged the music business with Napster. Votes: 0

Education is extremely important, especially in my business, the music business. Votes: 0

I may quit the music business someday, but never the music. Votes: 0

Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do. Votes: 0

I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money. Votes: 0

Being in the music business is a totally different industry right there. Votes: 0

When I went to City of Bath College, I studied the music business. Votes: 0

Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is. Votes: 0

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business. Votes: 0

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business. Votes: 0

Music is everybody's business. It's only the publishers who think people own it Votes: 0

I hate the pigeonholing that's happened in the music business in the last 30 years. Votes: 0

This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words. Votes: 0

The best decision I ever made, period, was to get into the music business. Votes: 0

I owe Elvis my career, and the entire music business owes him it's lifeline. Votes: 0

If you want to make money in music, get into the band uniform business. Votes: 0

I think the music business will eventually crush me, but I [smiles]... I'm ready. Votes: 0

The music business has let me touch a lot of people with my talent. Votes: 0

I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have. Votes: 0

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend. Votes: 0

It will be only a matter of time before the music business establishment completely folds. Votes: 0

I think it's fair to say we're both in the business of self-obliteration through music. Votes: 0

I hate that sense of entitlement or the sense of business crawling into playing music. Votes: 0

Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable. Votes: 0

Out of the ashes of the music business, comes the rebirth of the musician business. Votes: 0

The music industry is a vicious business. It chews women up and spits them out. Votes: 0

I am involved in the creation of software, and I'm also in the music business. Votes: 0

The Philadelphia/New York world of the music business is a tough place to be. Votes: 0

It's a small percentile of people who see one dime out of the music business. Votes: 0

My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't. Votes: 0

I tell people I'm big in the music business like a barnacle is big in shipping. Votes: 0

Independent artists and labels have always been the trend setters in music and the music business. Votes: 0

Punishing people for listening to music is exactly the wrong way to protect the music business. Votes: 0

There's too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging. Votes: 0

Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying. Votes: 0

I think it's a reflection of the music business in general, which to me seems very fragmented. Votes: 0

Things can turn ugly so quickly in the music business, especially if you have an unexpected success. Votes: 0

This is a business built on promotion. We've been giving music away to radio stations for 30 years. Votes: 0

Who would want to break into [the music business]? It's like a bank that's already been robbed. Votes: 0

Elvis changed the country music scene quite a bit; he almost put country music out of business. Votes: 0

By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family. Votes: 0

I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades. Votes: 0

There's much more money being brought into the advertising and communications business than in the music industry. Votes: 0

I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business. Votes: 0

The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse. Votes: 0

My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex. Votes: 0

... you can't be in the music business as long as "Steve and Edie" have, if you stink .. Votes: 0

If you had ever heard my album you would know that I could never consider the music business! Votes: 0

I still have a lot to learn - about the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting. Votes: 0

The music business used to carry a certain amount of brotherly love, but it isn't that way now. Votes: 0

There's nothing that can prepare you for fame and for the music business at any point in history. Votes: 0

I'm just trying to survive and stay relevant! That's all anyone in the music business can ask for. Votes: 0

The music is fun and all that, but first and foremost it is a business, it's about money. Votes: 0

Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record. Votes: 0

Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached. Votes: 0

Strategies are great, business models are great, but the reality is your music has to mean something to people. Votes: 0

Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should. Votes: 0

It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads. Votes: 0

Music is kind of a strange business, and it's too weird of a job to have mean, conniving people around. Votes: 0

My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him. Votes: 0

My advice to anyone wanting to get into the music business, is always be ready to learn and remain humble. Votes: 0

The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing. Votes: 0

Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business. Votes: 0

My mom nor my father never pushed me into the music business. I always did it because I wanted to. Votes: 0

Everyone faces challenges from the fierce competition as well as the manipulative crooks that are rampant throughout the music business. Votes: 0

The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit. Votes: 0

I'm excited about the old songs. That's a nice place to be after grinding out the music business for twenty years. Votes: 0

Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time. Votes: 0

Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do Votes: 0

I came from the music business, which reputedly has the biggest egos, but I really think the airline world caps it. Votes: 0

The theme of exile is attractive to me, because it's sort of like the family business. Not just music, but travel. Votes: 0

The music business, or what`s left of it, is obviously a very - it`s like a wild west now. Votes: 0

Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do. Votes: 0

The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true. Votes: 0

Novels may have taken care of the emotional business for me, which has allowed music to be more emotional for me. Votes: 0

I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business. Votes: 0

The music business doesn't take up that much of my time. I probably should put a little more energy into it. Votes: 0

I have major respect for Kenny Chesney and Carrie Underwood and Sugarland. They are wonderful. They're superstars in the music business. Votes: 0

That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up. Votes: 0

That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up. Votes: 0

The music business would be much better, for the youth and the kids, if they start hiring employees that understand the kids. Votes: 0

The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn't happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it. Votes: 0

At home, we don't listen to our music-we listen to other people's music. It keeps you attached to the show business world. Votes: 0

Most of this innovative new music doesn't make money so it's regarded as uninteresting for the business people and considered as "underground". Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I really worked with icons in the music business, which really had a strong effect on me. It wasn't just pick-up gigs. Votes: 0

As I've gotten older, I have gotten a lot better at finding the pleasures of making music despite the business of it. Votes: 0

I like the music. I love it & live it in fact. But for me the business part of music just plain stinks. Votes: 0

From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future. Votes: 0

But the music business is no more about truth on the outside of the Christian ghetto than it is on the inside. Votes: 0

I don't envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways. Votes: 0

Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most. Votes: 0

The music business is really, really small. The real music is becoming almost extinct, if you don't stay true to who you are. Votes: 0

When the music business failed to embrace the Internet, I thought it was game, set and match for the industry, and I quit. Votes: 0

The only way to get ahead in the music business these days is to call up all your friends. To pool your resources. Votes: 0

Yeah, man I am going to be writing a book soon. The reality of being in a rock band in the music business'. Votes: 0

My skin is an art gallery right, with paintings and crucifixes hoping to save me from all the dangers in the music business Votes: 0

When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate. Votes: 0

In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best. Votes: 0

I started in the music business I was first introduced to 1650 Broadway, uh, which was in reality where everything happened in the '60s. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

As an improvising musician, I am not in the music business, I am not in the creativity business; I am in the surrender business. Votes: 0

Get into the music business. This is the business that you have absolutely no requirements. You listen to music, you need no college degree. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Stand-up don't get no respect - it's the hardest thing to do in show business. You don't have no band and there's no music. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The female rock-'n'-roll-country-pop songwriter is back, and her name is Taylor Swift. And it's women like her who are going to save the music business. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There has been an effect of business rap on the output of today's rap music. But I don't think that's the modern day rapper's fault. Votes: 0

When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Music has become a bigger business, and with that there is more pressure to succeed; I think that it creates a negative pressure for being creative. Votes: 0

I couldn't concentrate on music. So I made the choice to give up my career as a musician in the frontline to deal with the business. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process. Votes: 0

There's no difference in dealing with the music business with the majors than any other competition. The music business is way more cutthroat than any other business. Votes: 0

I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody. Votes: 0

I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The more years you put behind you, hopefully making music that surpasses what you did before, you're playing bigger places and it kind of weirdly becomes a business. Votes: 0

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The business of music. You know, it's an oxymoron in a sense. It's like the two things. Although we both need each other, they really don't go together. Votes: 0

I just had to find all my friends that used to be in the business. As I say, the music business didn't die, it just moved to Nashville. Votes: 0

I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism. Votes: 0

All our institutions rest upon business. Without it we should not have schools, colleges, churches, parks, playgrounds, pavements, books, libraries, art, music, or anything else that we value. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I don't think piracy is going to kill the music industry. But digital technology and the ability to download will change the packaging from CDs to a single-based business. Votes: 0

There have been times when I've made special arrangements to meet people in music, film, business or politics, and I'll continue to do so if the people are sincere. Votes: 0

Somebody asked me the question not too long ago: 'Dave, do you think the music business has turned corrupt'. I said: 'Absolutely not - it has always been corrupt. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music. Votes: 0

Even for the people in the business who are real music lovers it's really about putting things in the right boxes, and my style doesn't fit into a box. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You will have to look a long way before you find a bunch of scum-suckers more greedy, humourless and deserving of death than the suits in the music business. Votes: 0

You know how it is with drawers and labels in the music business. They don't want anything to be complicated. They just want it simple, as simple as possible. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The rise of the Internet has caused the demise of the record labels, and has destroyed the music business of old, but it's also created new opportunities for young artists. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'd fired anyone who was involved with Creed. I didn't want anything to do with the music business. The entire press and industry hated me, so what was the point? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources. Votes: 0

When I got into the music business in 1976, there weren't many women on the roster. As a woman, you don't complain; you work twice as hard, and you do your job. Votes: 0

In business, you can have one massive success that earns $50 million overnight, and that's it. You're successful. End of story. But in the music business, you have to keep on doing it. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

The music business is a place where the artists are all treated like we're working for the people who are working for us. That can obviously be exaggerated when you're a female. Votes: 0

I'd say we [Apple Inc.] are the most creative of the technology companies and definitely the most artist-friendly. Almost everyone in the music business uses a Mac and everyone has an iPod. Votes: 0

The death of the music business was insane, but audio recordings have been around now for maybe 120 years. Books have been around for, what, nine centuries? So they're more entrenched than music. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I am disappointed in the music business, I feel like a lot of people in the music business are phoney, there's a lot of people who will abuse and take my kindness. Votes: 0

I think the music business is changing. Artists that don't want to tour and just want to collect royalty checks and stay home are not going to be able to do that. Votes: 0

I love what I do. I made my first record in '57. I don't think I'll ever get tired of making records and writing songs and singing and being in the music business. Votes: 0

The music business was not safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you know is bad for you, but you love every minute with her, anyway. Votes: 0

Nowadays, with the state of the music business, for any artist, whether you're up-and-coming or you've been in it for awhile, you have to explore different revenues and different ways of expressing yourself. Votes: 0

I don't live in as much fear as I used to. I'm not afraid of the music business. Life is too damn short. I know what's important, and the tasks are very clear. Votes: 0

There are few words in the music business or in art that I'll say people or some writers are overgenerous with words like 'legend' or 'genius', 'he's a pioneer' and all of that. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm meeting a lot of musicians and people in the music business, and am constantly trying to figure out what I want to do with music. We'll see. I want to do everything. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Elvis Presley is all there is. There just ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with Elvis. He wrote the book. He is everything to do and not to do in the music business. Votes: 0

If I wanted to fight to make a better world racially, I wouldn't be in the music business. You dig, if I were going to be a freedom fighter music is the wrong field. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I look up to Tegan & Sara, obviously, Adele and Natalie Maines from the Dixie Chicks. All these artists are strong in their convictions, and they haven't changed who they are for the music business. Votes: 0

Hollywood is about playing the game, and I can't think of any successful actresses who didn't play the game. There's a lot more renegades in the music business, from Patti Smith to Janis Joplin. Votes: 0

I was 13 and my mom was a librarian so I told her to check out every music book she could possibly find. I wanted to know the business part of being in the music business. Votes: 0

I'm from a little island off of Massachusetts, Nantucket. It's hard getting into the music business from there, but my parents took me to songwriting festivals because I would write and produce my own music. Votes: 0

There's also, I think more so in the music business and especially for women, this ceiling that people put on you if you have children or a family and decide to spend time with them. Votes: 0

I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound and knowing the music business the way I do - all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The kids of today have taken over the music business - most of them very young. Simply because they write and jot down a few notes, they have the idea that they can write songs. Votes: 0

Before the whole [music] business was calibrated around the selling of records. I never could have imagined that live performance would become kind of a vortex of the business. It's such a seismic shift really. Votes: 0