Music business Quotes · Page 14

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

— Randy Newman

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

— Scott Young

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

— Loren Weisman

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…

— Mary J. Blige

I think the reason I got into the music business was basically for the live aspect of it.

— Shaggy

Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was…

— Dolly Parton

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

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

— Dan Fogelberg

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

— Robert Plant

I've realized that the dang TV business is even crazier than the music business.

— Lainey Wilson

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

— Bruce Sterling

For the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it's doom and gloom and you have to spend millions…

— Simon Cowell

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

I am definitely less and less interested in music made by people that exist today, people that are living. I just see…

— Michael Gira

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 wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is…

— Nas

Great music can come from anywhere around the globe. And there has always been a music business. It just wasn't recorded, nor…

— Seymour Stein

The music business used to be filled with people who love music.

— Steve Lukather

I started in the music business I was first introduced to 1650 Broadway, uh, which was in reality where everything happened in…

— Al Kooper

Music is one of the toughest industries, so I respect everybody who has travelled any distance, come far in this music business…

— G-Eazy

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

— Jerry Wexler

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

— Aimee Mann

I definitely want my career to continue to branch out. I've had the pleasure of working in different areas of entertainment, from…

— Naturi Naughton

I'd say we [Apple Inc.] are the most creative of the technology companies and definitely the most artist-friendly. Almost everyone in the…

— Steve Jobs

In the music business, there's a lot of criticism and rejection. If you embrace it, you'll be better off when the adjustment…

— Sixto Rodriguez