Irs Quote by Billy Joel

If I wasn't a musician, I'd take up the law. They are the rottenest, wealthiest people in America.

— Chuck Berry

Musicians know all about unemployment. You're unemployed a lot, and I think there's a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are…

— Billy Joel

I think too much of the music industry is for the lawyer and accountant mentality.

— Chuck D

Ideally, musicians belong outside the Establishment. When they cross that line, it's like something in them has died.

— Alex Kapranos

The music business is really, really small. The real music is becoming almost extinct, if you don't stay true to who you are.

— Mary J. Blige

Musicians are like politicians. They're the last people who should be making music, just like politicians are the last people who should be running…

— Nigel Godrich

Musicians burn through more cash than the Federal Reserve.

— Shawn Amos

I hate saying I'm a new musician, because I've been doing this forever, but they like to put new musicians on a lot of…

— Alex Winston

Unless you've given up your business to a record label, there's no such thing as just being a musician anymore.

— Jack Conte

I don't think the music business is a very good business to be in.

— Justin Kan

I feel like musicians have such a precarious place in the political discourse, because musicians are, sort of just by nature, people-pleasers.

— John Flansburgh

Many musicians will say they don't care about the money yet they must commit themselves to appear at given times and places, and to…

— Lynette Fromme