Blacks own so little of the music business, it's pathetic. But I see that changing soon. Black artists, black businessmen and women… — Barry White Copy Share Image
Music is a business. You ain't gonna record with someone if it's not business, if it ain't gonna get you no money. — Anuel AA Copy Share Image
My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him. — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
Money had never been the main thing for me. It's the legacy that was important. — Berry Gordy Copy Share Image
Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business. — Taylor Hackford Copy Share Image
Punishing people for listening to music is exactly the wrong way to protect the music business. — Moby Copy Share Image
Especially when I finish one of my songs I play it to my friends who are just normal people and not people… — Jonas Blue Copy Share Image
The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings. — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
I am right at the bottom compared to everybody else with press kits and demos and trying to get meetings. That's what… — Drake Copy Share Image
I finished high school, moved to Nashville for college, and set out to break into the music business. Every night when I… — Trisha Yearwood Copy Share Image
The kids of today have taken over the music business - most of them very young. Simply because they write and jot… — Rudy Vallee Copy Share Image
The one thing about the music business is that there is no rulebook. It's not like the NFL or something where there's… — Zakk Wylde Copy Share Image
The death of the music business was insane, but audio recordings have been around now for maybe 120 years. Books have been… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'd fired anyone who was involved with Creed. I didn't want anything to do with the music business. The entire press and… — Scott Stapp Copy Share Image
When The B-52s started in the late '70s, music and the business was totally different. Obviously, it's easier for everyone to be… — Cindy Wilson Copy Share Image
I've always just adored music. It's my first love, really. I admire and respect people in the music business. You really have… — Blythe Danner Copy Share Image
What stood me in good stead was my upbringing. I had a musician father, a very religious mother who totally supported us.… — Suzi Quatro Copy Share Image
It's a funny line when you're walking - the creativity, the subjectivity versus the objectivity, creativity versus the business, and recognizing that… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contract and… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed: the major record labels let Apple take over the… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
“The words of the Quran all seemed strangely familiar yet so unlike anything I had ever read before,’ he told us. He… — Kristiane Backer Copy Share Image
Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I want to carry on in the music business and in television because it's basically a hobby and a passion that I… — Louis Walsh Copy Share Image
I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
That's the shame about Miles Copeland; he's evil, but he's got a heart of gold. — Dave Wakeling Copy Share Image
I've made hundreds of legendary records that people talk about that didn't sell. — Jerry Wexler Copy Share Image
I've seen the highs and lows not just of the music business but of life. — Chesney Hawkes Copy Share Image
It's a small percentile of people who see one dime out of the music business. — Chad Kroeger Copy Share Image
Never get cocky with the music business...it will turn around and bite you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It will be only a matter of time before the music business establishment completely folds. — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
My skin is an art gallery right, with paintings and crucifixes hoping to save me from all the dangers in the music… — Nas Copy Share Image
Barry Manilow is a guy who's had a tremendous longevity that few have had in the music business. I'm in awe of… — Dave Koz Copy Share Image
I really worked with icons in the music business, which really had a strong effect on me. It wasn't just pick-up gigs. — Kevin Eubanks Copy Share Image
“Success in the music industry isn’t something that you wait for or hope for. It is something that you create, day after… — Simon S. Tam Copy Share Image
I always kept busy. If the music business got bad I'd get me a job doin' somethin' else. Bellhop. Porter. Anything to… — Scatman Crothers Copy Share Image
I don't envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways. — Aimee Mann Copy Share Image
But the music business is no more about truth on the outside of the Christian ghetto than it is on the inside. — Mark Heard Copy Share Image
I always wanted to try to be a teacher even before I was in the music business. I liked history, and good… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
