Music business Quotes · Page 6

There's too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.

— Jimmy Page

Elvis changed the country music scene quite a bit; he almost put country music out of business.

— Chet Atkins

The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.

— Tom Petty

I suppose we don't know that much about how the music business operates in the U.K., but from what I've heard, it's…

— Chad Gilbert

That's not easy to find in a corporate world, somebody who cares about music.

— Michael Penn

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

— Shaggy

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

I was just tapped on the shoulder from above and told to write these songs, as opposed to wanting to be a…

— Townes Van Zandt

[I did impressions] of relatives because I heard so many different sounds. My dad was in the music business and of course…

— Billy Crystal

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

Copyright's democratising effect is seen most clearly in the music business. Anyone who can speak, sing, rap or hum and operate a…

— Mick Hucknall

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 been around the music business for a long time now, and I've had a lot of chances to do movies. But…

— Tim McGraw

Some people are the greatest people on Earth with good hearts and will get in the studio and make the most negative…

— Lupe Fiasco

I don't consider myself a businessman. It's just that the music business is like the Wild West. No one knows what's going…

— Pete Wentz

My dad is in the music business in Nashville. I was the third child born in my family, and there are three…

— Chord Overstreet

All of the women in music business understand that. They're fighting in a misogynist world. That's why they wear some elements of…

— Nelly Furtado

The most important thing is that you make sure you follow the music, which is a musician's way of saying follow your…

— Robben Ford

When you first start out in the music business and hope that you have a couple hits, the ultimate payoff is to…

— Jay DeMarcus

Being larger than life, or being projected as such in the music business, leads you to question yourself. Some people try to…

— Cat Stevens

The whole point of 'Acid Rap' was just to ask people a question: does the music business side of this dictate what…

— Chance the Rapper

I think for us, we don't feel like the future of music is in the act of being a record company. We…

— Zac Hanson

Hip-hop from the beginning has always been aspirational. It always broke that notion that an artist can't think about money as well.…

— Jay-Z

I was a time bomb waiting to detonate, burned out, sick of the music business, out of touch with everything and heavily…

— Charles Lloyd

You've gotta be business savvy really, or else you get the piss taken out of you.

— Melanie Brown

The music business, or what's left of it, is obviously a very - it's like a wild west now.

— Lars Ulrich

I have known from the beginning one thing you need to know. That is, the music business is a business.

— Steve Brown

The landscape of the music business has changed and I definitely have to take advantage of that.

— Xzibit

This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.

— Jennifer Egan

I've always felt like the Forrest Gump of the music business. I've been fortunate to work with a lot of great people.

— Michael McDonald

I thought I could get myself into the music business by doing paralegal work. I was just trying to get in any…

— Ginuwine

I came into this music business at 26 years old. I was a fully developed man at that point. At that age,…

— Jay-Z

When you hear my records today hear a vanilla sounding artist with no black inflection, although I was trying to imitate what…

— Pat Boone

The music business is not a good place for people who don't know things.

— Mary J. Blige

My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't.

— Simon Cowell

I was trying to find my way into the music business still, but I didn't want to portray something that I wasn't.…

— Ginuwine

Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do

— Bob Geldof

Get into the music business. This is the business that you have absolutely no requirements. You listen to music, you need no…

— Curtis Jackson

I'm excited about the old songs. That's a nice place to be after grinding out the music business for twenty years.

— Five for Fighting

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