Music business Quotes · Page 8

I am involved in the creation of software, and I'm also in the music business.

— Frederick Lenz

I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out…

— Randy Travis

The Philadelphia/New York world of the music business is a tough place to be.

— Daryl Hall

I like the country, the peace and quiet, because the music business is so hectic.

— Curt Smith

The music business is really a spiritual business whether we know it or not.

— Kurtis Blow

Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.

— Neil Young

There's a lot to live up to when three of your parents are successful in the music business.

— Aubrie Sellers

Being in the music business is a totally different industry right there.

— Christina Milian

The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be…

— Bonnie Raitt

The female rock-'n'-roll-country-pop songwriter is back, and her name is Taylor Swift. And it's women like her who are going to save…

— Stevie Nicks

When I was trying to make it into the music business I really wanted to get myself to the AIR Awards to…

— G Flip

Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple…

— Faith Hill

That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.

— Anonymous

[Music] business can drive you to do that if you don't have it here. If you're not strong-minded here, it could steer…

— Bow Wow

The whole music business in the United States is based on numbers, based on unit sales and not on quality. It's not…

— Frank Zappa

Jail just made me wiser. It made me smarter. It made me wake up to a lot of stuff. And also it…

— Boosie

“The most devastating thing artists can do to their career is get in their own way, and way too many people do.…

— Loren Weisman

There's always peripheral things that you like that you don't know, but starting with whatever his British influences are, are some of…

— Paul Weller

There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between record labels, publishing companies and artists [about the compensation they get from streaming services]…

— Sean Parker

Never compromise and sell yourself short. I've been in the music business, a girl group . . . I've been through so…

— Naturi Naughton

One woman I interviewed, Amanda Ghost, said, "Let's not bullshit, there are no women at the top of the music business, and…

— Laura Marling

I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look…

— Joni Mitchell

“Many such top performers overcame their average—or even below-average—intellects and nonexistent aptitudes to develop outstanding abilities in disciplines such as chess, music,…

— Sean Patrick

I think for a lot of new bands, although they have a lot of opportunity, this music business is not giving them…

— Susan Ann Sulley

I'm not sure a lot of us in the music business or in rock 'n' roll are given credit for irony or…

— Terence Trent D'Arby

I had a deal with CNN and had no intention of going back to the music business, but you know, it's Lynyrd…

— Johnny Colt

I just had to find all my friends that used to be in the business. As I say, the music business didn't…

— Lionel Richie

The only way to get ahead in the music business these days is to call up all your friends. To pool your…

— Shelby Lynne

If the milk industry can make their product seem sexy and increase consumer demand, there must be hope for music.

— Gary Arnold

Most people involved in the music business, and it's probably not just the music business... aren't necessarily people that I like.

— Buzz Osborne

I've realized that the dang TV business is even crazier than the music business.

— Lainey Wilson

I'm an indie artist with major distribution, so one foot in the extreme major music business and one foot in the abyss…

— John Oates

You can do any number of things in the music business aside from trying to look like you're 25. To me it's embarrassing.

— Grace Slick

When you are a journalist in the music business, as I was, you end up dying or going to the gym -…

— Tony Parsons

Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the…

— John Lydon

When the music business failed to embrace the Internet, I thought it was game, set and match for the industry, and I…

— Tony Fernandes

I'm a snake oil salesman as much as anyone else, but I try to keep something for myself.

— Freedy Johnston

Everyone faces challenges from the fierce competition as well as the manipulative crooks that are rampant throughout the music business.

— Wendy Starland

The music business is just the worst as far as Machiavellian, sharky, evil games going on, as far as manipulation.

— Robert Greene

When I talk about success I don't mean music business, I just mean the people around me.

— Young Dolph