The first thing you learn about the music business is that it changes very quickly. You come into it at a certain… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
I didn't come into the music business to make money. I came into it to be a success. Of course, if you're… — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
A lot of people in the music business are a bit doom and gloom, People say it's probably easier to write sad… — Amy Macdonald Copy Share Image
My goal in this music business is to be here as long as I'm alive. I want my music to be here.… — Petey Pablo Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I think the way the music business has been destructive and the way the fans are been put through it and… — Beck Copy Share Image
The music business is a place where the artists are all treated like we're working for the people who are working for… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
Being in the music business, if we couldn't pull the fashions from designers and if designers couldn't use artists to show off… — Tina Knowles Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative… — Gary Wright Copy Share Image
When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks and there's always a certain level of tension in your life.… — Mark Kozelek 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
Forget about surviving 40 years in the music business. Just surviving 27 years of Nicole Richie has been a struggle-and-a-half, I want… — Lionel Richie Copy Share Image
Where I come from, music is not a business. Sharing music is a business, but music is not a business. It comes… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
Writing is not work. In fact, theres nothing better. Writing is something that if the music business went completely away tomorrow -… — Toby Keith Copy Share Image
I suppose that by being absent from the music business, it appeared that I just dropped out, but really I never did.… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
For me, a lot of my fondest memories of being in the music business were being in the studio with The Doobs… — Michael McDonald Copy Share Image
I've been in the music business for 15 years. I've seen it all, man. I've just always been scared of coke. When… — Kenny Chesney Copy Share Image
I think I am like everyone else in the music business these days - you have to adjust to the times and… — Rick DeJesus Copy Share Image
We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed,… — Jon Bon Jovi Copy Share Image
I'm from a little island off of Massachusetts, Nantucket. It's hard getting into the music business from there, but my parents took… — Meghan Trainor Copy Share Image
I'm still as fascinated with the music business as ever. I'd love to do an electronic album like Prodigy or Underworld. I… — Elton John Copy Share Image
We were all born, and we all came to the music business with everything we had. Some of us just don't get… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
I'm a binge writer. I work in the music business fulltime, in artist management and developing songwriters and recording artists, and so… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
The things Elvis has done during his career and the things he has contributed and created are really something very important to… — Bing Crosby Copy Share Image
I am very aware now that music is a business, but there is also a way to go about making music that… — Ronnie Montrose Copy Share Image
I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business.… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Coming from the music business and seeing the transition from artists to fans, fans to consumers, it's really about understanding the psychology… — Troy Carter Copy Share Image
I feel like there is a lot of homophobia and misogyny in the music business, and I feel like I've gotten to… — Justin Tranter Copy Share Image
Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing.… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
You just plant a few seeds, cultivate the shoots, and watch your career grow and branch out. It takes time and dedication.… — Christopher Tin 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
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
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
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
There's so many people in the music business or even in general who will tell you that you can't do this or… — Jeremy Davis Copy Share Image
When I was first introduced to the music business, I learned how to make beats. All my friends rapped, but nobody made… — Kid Ink Copy Share Image
I think there are so, so, so, so many things you have to be... to do this... you know, to keep going… — John 5 Copy Share Image
One of the most humbling gigs I've ever had was I was paid by a neighbor to go get a dead bird… — Walker Hayes Copy Share Image
I think the music business is changing. Artists that don't want to tour and just want to collect royalty checks and stay… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
There is music out there that is commercially driven, whether you like it or not. That's a peculiarly American innovation. We innovated… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
I think I would have just thrived in the 70s. Because firstly, there'd be no Internet and you'd have to actually get… — Naughty Boy Copy Share Image
