Music business Quotes · Page 5

The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer.

— John Oates

My advice to anyone wanting to get into the music business, is always be ready to learn and remain humble.

— Rayvon Owen

Well, I very quickly saw what a boys club it was in the music business. That is always a hurdle.

— Peaches

“Some were only there to see and be seen. Some to watch the fall. People love free booze and a car crash.”

— Chris DiCroce

I had no idea that I could sustain a career as an artist. But, I loved music and wanted to be in…

— Ray Stevens

Independent artists and labels have always been the trend setters in music and the music business.

— Shawn Fanning

I think now the music is good. I tell people all the time who like to be in the music business you…

— Master P

I decided I couldn't ever again deal with the megabusiness end of the music business.

— John Waite

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

Success came to me in my late 20s. I started touring when I was a teenager, so I had already seen the…

— Joe Satriani

I think the music business is becoming more difficult. It's really taken a big hit with piracy, so it's a lot more…

— Cliff Martinez

[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

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

By the time 1997 had rolled around, I had been in the music business for all my life, from the age of…

— Eric Carmen

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

One woman I interviewed, Amanda Ghost, said, "Let's not bullshit, there are no women at the top of the music business, and…

— Laura Marling

Never compromise and sell yourself short. I've been in the music business, a girl group . . . I've been through so…

— Naturi Naughton

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

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

“The most devastating thing artists can do to their career is get in their own way, and way too many people do.…

— Loren Weisman

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

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

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

I tell people I'm big in the music business like a barnacle is big in shipping.

— Vance Gilbert

If you think the music business is the be-all and end-all of life, you're in big trouble.

— Simon Rattle

The best decision I ever made, period, was to get into the music business.

— Ja Rule

Education is extremely important, especially in my business, the music business.

— Ludacris

I think the music business will eventually crush me, but I [smiles]... I'm ready.

— Elliott Smith

Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time.

— Linda Barnes

I think the music business is as crass and as unrewarding as it has ever been.

— Dennis DeYoung

If this company is about anything, it's about discipline and staying focused.

— Jimmy Iovine

The worst thing about the music business is the business part of it. Business has nothing whatever to do with writing, playing…

— Charlotte Caffey

The film business, for me, has been great, but the music business, we've always been on the outside looking in.

— Meat Loaf

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

— Lawrence Welk

My mom nor my father never pushed me into the music business. I always did it because I wanted to.

— Hank Williams III

In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I…

— Gareth Gates

To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It's exhausting.

— Nick Cave

Getting into film production was obviously the next step once we had consolidated our music business.

— Bhushan Kumar

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