Music business Quotes · Page 4

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.

— Billy Corgan

The music business and I were made for each other.

— Jerry Heller

I was a late bloomer in the music business.

— J. J. Cale

I didn't start in the music business to make money.

— Porter Wagoner

I've always treated the music business as a business.

— Simon Cowell

I wish there had been a music business 101 course I could have taken.

— Kurt Cobain

I don't think the music business is a very good business to be in.

— Justin Kan

I was too trusting when I was younger, especially of certain people in the music business.

— Tony Hadley

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

— Bhushan Kumar

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

— Nick Cave

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

— Gareth Gates

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

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

— Meat Loaf

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

— Charlotte Caffey

A song like 'Shooting Star' - the thought process behind writing that song was that I looked around and thought, 'Wow, there's…

— Paul Rodgers

That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative…

— Jackson Browne

I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in…

— Steve Albini

As a child, I was always very interested in music and had friends who were in the music business. I kind of…

— Hooman Majd

No, I mean we'd all definitely involved in the music business someway or another, because we're all living with it, and in…

— John Deacon

'The bigtime for you is just around the corner.' They told me that first in 1952 - boy, it's been a long…

— Ronnie Hawkins

The bigtime for you is just around the corner. They told me that first in 1952 - boy, its been a long…

— Ronnie Hawkins

Technology is going to play a huge part in tomorrow's music business. And the companies that will win are going to be…

— Troy Carter

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

— Michael Gira

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

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

— Jeremy Renner

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

There is a terrible thing that's been happening probably for the last 20 years or so and it's called the music business.…

— Gavin Friday

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

— Jimmy Iovine

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

— Dennis DeYoung

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 will eventually crush me, but I [smiles]... I'm ready.

— Elliott Smith

I'm just trying to survive and stay relevant! That's all anyone in the music business can ask for.

— Christopher Tin

I owe Elvis my career, and the entire music business owes him it's lifeline.

— Cliff Richard

You go through stages where you wonder whether you are Christ, or just looking for him.

— David Bowie

If you had ever heard my album you would know that I could never consider the music business!

— Dwayne Hickman

... you can't be in the music business as long as "Steve and Edie" have, if you stink ..

— Steve Lawrence