Ambitious Quote by Arto Lindsay

I certainly never doubted the ability for the guys to get together and make good music, but there was so much legal business with…

— John Bush

We ceased to be a band the moment we made it. It left us with nothing. We felt like a failure although we had…

— Morten Harket

Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately it was a band…

— Wayne Kramer

I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and…

— Ian Anderson

In the beginning, we might have been focused on totally just music and being famous, just wanting to have fame and make hot music,…

— Prodigy

I'm feeling like the music business is reaping what it's sown. It's going through what inevitably it was going to go through. It was…

— Adam Levine

One of the central flaws in the state of contemporary music is that the major record companies have failed to incorporate that simple fact…

— Moby

I feel like the music speaks for itself. Actually, we had less to prove than most bands coming out at the time because they…

— Gym Class Heroes

If breakups never existed the music industry would go bankrupt.

— Alisa Gattus

We wanted to make a living, but success was creating a song that we enjoyed playing. Quite honestly, that is still a measure of…

— Matthew Ramsey

That's where people go wrong in the music industry: they get all these fancy things and think that they deserve them, but they really…

— Justine Skye

The potential success that could come with signing with a major label didn't quite outweigh how important it was for me to make my…

— Kina Grannis