The music business is really, really small. The real music is becoming almost extinct, if you don't stay true to who you… — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The music business is the most childish business in the world. Nobody knows what they're selling or why, but they sell it… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
Money had never been the main thing for me. It's the legacy that was important. — Berry Gordy Copy Share Image
Blacks own so little of the music business, it's pathetic. But I see that changing soon. Black artists, black businessmen and women… — Barry White Copy Share Image
I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music… — Randy Travis Copy Share Image
My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him. — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
Music is a business. You ain't gonna record with someone if it's not business, if it ain't gonna get you no money. — Anuel AA Copy Share Image
In a sense, the music business and I haven't always been the best of bedfellows. Artists often have to fight their corner.… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound and knowing the music business the way I do - all… — Barry White Copy Share Image
I think the Ambitious Lovers never got their due- we had terrible management and at that point, we were on major labels… — Arto Lindsay Copy Share Image
A song like 'Shooting Star' - the thought process behind writing that song was that I looked around and thought, 'Wow, there's… — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
I think the music business is probably not happy with what we've done, because the people buying the record have actually got… — John Otway Copy Share Image
I feel like I've survived so much, and been through so much. And sometimes I miss the innocence of those times. Life… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
This music business can suck all the love out of you, all the compassion for people - you can start to think… — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
All of the women in music business understand that. They're fighting in a misogynist world. That's why they wear some elements of… — Nelly Furtado Copy Share Image
With my quick success, I didn't have time to learn the ropes of the music business. Because my first record was such… — Phoebe Snow Copy Share Image
When you first start out in the music business and hope that you have a couple hits, the ultimate payoff is to… — Jay DeMarcus Copy Share Image
The most important thing is that you make sure you follow the music, which is a musician's way of saying follow your… — Robben Ford Copy Share Image
The one constant in this ever changing music business is the heartfelt and “ear to the ground” Indie Record Stores that avid… — Dale Watson Copy Share Image
Having people around you that are honest with you, and having a team around you that can actually track and communicate where… — Muneshine Copy Share Image
People do not look at the music business as an entrepreneur business at all times, but everything in this business is entrepreneurship.… — Bryan-Michael Cox Copy Share Image
It's a funny line when you're walking - the creativity, the subjectivity versus the objectivity, creativity versus the business, and recognizing that… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
Get into the music business. This is the business that you have absolutely no requirements. You listen to music, you need no… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I want to carry on in the music business and in television because it's basically a hobby and a passion that I… — Louis Walsh Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings. — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
Especially when I finish one of my songs I play it to my friends who are just normal people and not people… — Jonas Blue Copy Share Image
Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business. — Taylor Hackford Copy Share Image
Punishing people for listening to music is exactly the wrong way to protect the music business. — Moby Copy Share Image
I came into this music business at 26 years old. I was a fully developed man at that point. At that age,… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I thought I could get myself into the music business by doing paralegal work. I was just trying to get in any… — Ginuwine Copy Share Image
I've always felt like the Forrest Gump of the music business. I've been fortunate to work with a lot of great people. — Michael McDonald Copy Share Image
The landscape of the music business has changed and I definitely have to take advantage of that. — Xzibit Copy Share Image
This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I was trying to find my way into the music business still, but I didn't want to portray something that I wasn't.… — Ginuwine Copy Share Image
My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't. — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
