Music business Quotes · Page 5

You see there's music and there's the music business - and they're different.

— Sixto Rodriguez

I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades.

— Peter Asher

“Along the way, he published a novel about the music business with the title Sweetie Baby Cookie Honey.”

— Michael Sokolove

My number one goal is to take over the music business and run a really great record company.

— Linda Perry

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

— Shawn Fanning

I hate the pigeonholing that's happened in the music business in the last 30 years.

— Brian McKnight

I think I've always felt as a band and as a musician and a music business person, I've always felt like an…

— Amanda Palmer

People in the music business say don't make too many records because they'll compete against one another.

— Chick Corea

I can't say I was consciously thinking of the big changes in the music business when I was writing the lyrics, but…

— Rivers Cuomo

Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person…

— Bette Midler

We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial…

— Jerry Garcia

There's no difference in dealing with the music business with the majors than any other competition. The music business is way more…

— Suge Knight

I don't relate to what's left of the music business. There doesn't seem to be any point to it anymore. The business…

— Don McLean

When you're in the music business, every day is the same. If you work 9 to 5, you can't wait for the…

— Bonnie Tyler

It's very tough for a woman in the music business, and he really was such a motivator from the beginning, when I…

— Gloria Estefan

It is a tough city to live in (Detroit) but a great city to be around. There is so much promise. There…

— MC Serch

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

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

— Loren Weisman

Without a doubt, because now in the music business talent and hard work isn't enough. There is just a lot of luck…

— Jason C. Miller

The one constant in this ever changing music business is the heartfelt and “ear to the ground” Indie Record Stores that avid…

— Dale Watson

People do not look at the music business as an entrepreneur business at all times, but everything in this business is entrepreneurship.…

— Bryan-Michael Cox

Having people around you that are honest with you, and having a team around you that can actually track and communicate where…

— Muneshine

With my quick success, I didn't have time to learn the ropes of the music business. Because my first record was such…

— Phoebe Snow

Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later…

— Caitlin Rose

I would say I know nothing about the music business, in a nice sort of way. I totally forgot I was in…

— Zooey Deschanel

I don't get bored. In the music business you get used to a lot of waiting around.

— Phil Rudd

Anybody that forms a group, writes songs and releases records and says they don't care if people like them are complete liars.

— James Dean Bradfield

I know so many girls that have felt like they've been taken advantage of. Not only in the music business, but in…

— Margo Price

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

— Philip Bailey

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

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

People are gonna get tired of Linda Perry the producer, but I will always be in the music business. And I will…

— Linda Perry

In the music business, if you're not a fighter, you will get walked all over.

— Tina Knowles

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

I hate to say this, but at the time, (late 70's) it was like the smart people liked punk and the dumb…

— Howie Klein

Independent labels take nothing and make something out of it. Major labels buy that something, and try to make more out of…

— Tom Silverman

I came from the music business, which reputedly has the biggest egos, but I really think the airline world caps it.

— Tony Fernandes