Music business Quotes

I may quit the music business someday, but never the music.

— Dan Fogelberg

I got very bored with the music business.

— Wilson Pickett

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

— Scott Young

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

— David Geffen

The music business, a lot of times, has a big finesse mentality to it.

— Zaytoven

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

— John Oates

My future definitely lies in the music business.

— Ronan Keating

I never had my mind set on being an entertainer in the music business.

— Trace Cyrus

By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family. Lawrence Welk

— Lawrence Welk

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

— Alan Jackson

“Choose those you give your trust to carefully. Be caring; be loving; be creative. But also be careful.”

— Loren Weisman

Our goal is to continue to be a global consolidator of the live music business.

— Michael Rapino

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

— Terry Bozzio

I'm not oriented by money, to be honest. Everybody thinks we're in the music business for money all of the time. But…

— Denny Laine

You can get jaded in the music business, but I have so much passion, and I try to do music with different…

— Philip Bailey

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

— Lars Ulrich

It's interesting, there are a lot of similarities with being in the music business or being in a band, where a lot…

— Gerard Way

I understand that music is a business, but for people who have control of their stuff, like little Taylor and other artists,…

— Garth Brooks

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

I was tossed all over the place growing up, which I guess prepared me for the music business, but the one thing…

— Kellie Pickler

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

There are peaks and valleys in anything and that is especially true for the music business. It is very inconsistent. But if…

— Bryan White

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

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

I dabbled a little bit in the whole music thing but I've always thought about Bernie Taupin, who is Elton John's lyricist;…

— Carmen Ejogo

The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play…

— Jeremy Renner

Whenever you're in a chaotic environment, there are some of the best opportunities. Nobody knows where the music business is going, but…

— Tom Silverman

Obviously, as the music business has suffered tremendously, with being able to illegally download everything, it's also become amazingly easy to find…

— Jorma Taccone

I think that's where the music business is where it is today because at one point, we were just splurging so much…

— Fabolous

“The average artist has a naïve, unrealistic, and disconnected view of what the music industry is, how it works, what is involved…

— Loren Weisman

I've certainly stayed a marginal figure, though I became a member of the "surveillance committee" fairly early on. I can actually live…

— Mauricio Kagel

I put up with the music business because I understand that I'm in the tradition, I'm in a tradition that's of far…

— Billy Corgan

“Many years later after the sell-outs, betrayals, and hatred which would tear us apart, when our brotherhood had been destroyed, I’d always…

— H. Alazhar

“«Eliza opened her furry black satchel. She pulled out a portable CD player. “Gav, look here. Once, I loved this machine. Because…

— Bruce Sterling

I have always considered myself a fast learner. I try to retain and absorb as much information and knowledge about the [music]…

— Asher Monroe

I was just burnt out. I didn't like the music business and I didn't like me. There's an element of falseness about…

— Rick Astley

I had been trying to do something with music for all of my life. Ive always been a fan of music; I…

— Big Meech

“I don't tell you this story today in order to encourage all of you in the class of '04 to find careers…

— Richard Russo

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

— Brenda Lee

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

— Robert Plant