Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
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… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
Technology is going to play a huge part in tomorrow's music business. And the companies that will win are going to be… — Troy Carter Copy Share Image
The bigtime for you is just around the corner. They told me that first in 1952 - boy, its been a long… — Ronnie Hawkins Copy Share Image
I can't say I was consciously thinking of the big changes in the music business when I was writing the lyrics, but… — Rivers Cuomo Copy Share Image
No, I mean we'd all definitely involved in the music business someway or another, because we're all living with it, and in… — John Deacon Copy Share Image
As a child, I was always very interested in music and had friends who were in the music business. I kind of… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
I was a time bomb waiting to detonate, burned out, sick of the music business, out of touch with everything and heavily… — Charles Lloyd Copy Share Image
I think for us, we don't feel like the future of music is in the act of being a record company. We… — Zac Hanson Copy Share Image
'The bigtime for you is just around the corner.' They told me that first in 1952 - boy, it's been a long… — Ronnie Hawkins Copy Share Image
The only thing that was economic, I might say, about my music career, aside from the fact that I did everybody's tax… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm feeling like the music business is reaping what it's sown. It's going through what inevitably it was going to go through.… — Adam Levine Copy Share Image
When I started in the music business, travel became a huge part of my world, where it hadn't been at all. I… — Josh Groban Copy Share Image
I have a lot of dislike for the business end of the music business, particularly what they call shopping for a label.… — Grant Hart Copy Share Image
The unifying thread through all these different aspects of music business is just my attraction toward working with sounds and designing new… — Charlie Clouser Copy Share Image
I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is… — Nas Copy Share Image
I've withdrawn many times. Part of me is a monk, and part a performing flea! The fear in the music business is… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I've done well, I've been disappointed, and I think it all goes back to you. Of course the labels are going to… — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
Being in the music business requires having a very strong resolve. You must be completely committed to the craziness that will inevitably… — Wendy Starland Copy Share Image
When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
In 1989 I sort of got back into the music business and one of the reasons I got back in is [that]… — Ringo Starr Copy Share Image
I ran out of steam and patience and so I quit. I really didn't want to make another record. I'd had it… — John Waite Copy Share Image
The music business is about people. And I think that's why I disregard the business aspect of it so much, because I… — Hayley Williams Copy Share Image
I'm into indie music. I think indie is going to bring back the spirit in music. There was a time when it… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Books are so cheap and easy to get that people don't bother stealing them, which is the essential rule of piracy that… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
Nothing will prepare you for singing the truth like about 35 years in the music business, financial troubles and a couple trips… — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
Music business is not for everyone. But if you have it in you, you have that passion, if you have that energy… — John Legend Copy Share Image
New generations have unprecedented power to make great changes. Take the music business for example. The new generations have toppled the music… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Jail just made me wiser. It made me smarter. It made me wake up to a lot of stuff. And also it… — Boosie Copy Share Image
I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music… — Peter Hook Copy Share Image
The music business is like an ocean. It's filled with sharks and if you jump in naively, you're going to get bitten.… — Jack Savoretti Copy Share Image
The first thing you learn about the music business is that it changes very quickly. You come into it at a certain… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
I didn't come into the music business to make money. I came into it to be a success. Of course, if you're… — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
Seems like more and more of the technical side, quality, and sound of music is of higher importance in the music business...… — Ellis Hadlock Copy Share Image
Before the whole [music] business was calibrated around the selling of records. I never could have imagined that live performance would become… — Arthur Fogel Copy Share Image
Time and persistence has shown me that I can succeed at sharing my art with others as a musician while running my… — Bradley Joseph Copy Share Image
I'm meeting a lot of musicians and people in the music business, and am constantly trying to figure out what I want… — Tyler Posey Copy Share Image
You will have to look a long way before you find a bunch of scum-suckers more greedy, humourless and deserving of death… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
![“Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn't even doing the singing. I'm a bit cynical about this [music] business.” quote by Bette Midler](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/387/bette-midler-1976_bits_image-is-everything-and-the-voice-or-the_3149059.jpg)
![“When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.” quote by Bette Midler](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7bd/bette-midler-1976_business_when-i-started-in-this-music-business-i_1634901.jpg)
![“In 1989 I sort of got back into the music business and one of the reasons I got back in is [that] I put the first All Stars band together. It's actually progressed from that every other year, or every two years, I've put that together...more and more realizing that's what I do.” quote by Ringo Starr](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/dbe/ringo-starr-3090_all-stars_in-1989-i-sort-of-got-back-into-the-musi_15536.jpg)
![“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.” quote by Arthur Fogel](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/661/arthur-fogel-83203_business_before-the-whole-music-business-was-cali_417500.jpg)
