I decided to start my own label because so many people with talent come to me wanting to know how they can… — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
Things can turn ugly so quickly in the music business, especially if you have an unexpected success. — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
Technology has opened up the music business 100-fold and provided space for all kinds of new faces. — Andy Mineo Copy Share Image
By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family. — Lawrence Welk Copy Share Image
My mom nor my father never pushed me into the music business. I always did it because I wanted to. — Hank Williams III Copy Share Image
The film business, for me, has been great, but the music business, we've always been on the outside looking in. — Meat Loaf Copy Share Image
To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It's exhausting. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I… — Gareth Gates Copy Share Image
You're a musician and you live and die by people responding to your music. It's a business just like anything else and… — Marc Martel Copy Share Image
You know how it is with drawers and labels in the music business. They don't want anything to be complicated. They just… — Mark McGrath Copy Share Image
I came to music and knowing a little bit about life, and I came to music knowing a lot about business -… — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
In the music business I am surrounded by people who don't view music as a sacred voice. They view music as something… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't.… — Barry McGuire Copy Share Image
I think the Grammys are nothing more than some gigantic promotional machine for the music industry. They cater to a low intellect… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
I was tossed all over the place growing up, which I guess prepared me for the music business, but the one thing… — Kellie Pickler Copy Share Image
[Commercial radio] is owned by one or two corporations now, and they're not in the music business. They're in the advertising business…… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
I worked in corrections because they had told me I wasn't going to make it in the music business. You know, when… — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
This rise of the new global mega-rich is happening as established institutions are falling. The fall runs the gamut from the music… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Never compromise and sell yourself short. I've been in the music business, a girl group . . . I've been through so… — Naturi Naughton Copy Share Image
There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between record labels, publishing companies and artists [about the compensation they get from streaming services]… — Sean Parker Copy Share Image
There's always peripheral things that you like that you don't know, but starting with whatever his British influences are, are some of… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
I'm definitely an anomaly, but I'm making things. They're selling, say, martinis, and I'm kind of making vintage Riesling. People aren't going… — Ben Folds Copy Share Image
The music business is suffering because fewer artists are being invested in. Labels are putting in less money, taking fewer risks and… — Tom Silverman Copy Share Image
Honestly, in the music business, it's all about being cool or being the newest thing or being the 'It' person, and I've… — Mitski Copy Share Image
Getting into film production was obviously the next step once we had consolidated our music business. — Bhushan Kumar Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I think the ordinary guy has just as much right to say 'This is a good song'… — Kenny G Copy Share Image
I was too trusting when I was younger, especially of certain people in the music business. — Tony Hadley Copy Share Image
The music business is just the worst as far as Machiavellian, sharky, evil games going on, as far as manipulation. — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
When I talk about success I don't mean music business, I just mean the people around me. — Young Dolph Copy Share Image
When the music business failed to embrace the Internet, I thought it was game, set and match for the industry, and I… — Tony Fernandes Copy Share Image
Everyone faces challenges from the fierce competition as well as the manipulative crooks that are rampant throughout the music business. — Wendy Starland Copy Share Image
I'm a snake oil salesman as much as anyone else, but I try to keep something for myself. — Freedy Johnston Copy Share Image
Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still… — Tom Jones Copy Share Image
Yeah, man I am going to be writing a book soon. The reality of being in a rock band in the music… — Steve Brown Copy Share Image
“Artists of today can be inspired by the past, but they have to apply present methods if they want a future in… — Loren Weisman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I just had to find all my friends that used to be in the business. As I say, the music business didn't… — Lionel Richie Copy Share Image
I had a deal with CNN and had no intention of going back to the music business, but you know, it's Lynyrd… — Johnny Colt Copy Share Image
The only way to get ahead in the music business these days is to call up all your friends. To pool your… — Shelby Lynne Copy Share Image
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