Music Business Quotes
205 Music Business quotes by 170 unique authors
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The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.
— Erykah Badu
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Music and the music business are two different things.
— Erykah Badu
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The music business is not a good place for people who don't know things.
— Mary J. Blige
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From being a little girl in the projects, going through all of the mess that I was going through, to ending up at the Inauguration…
— Mary J. Blige
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I've done well, I've been disappointed, and I think it all goes back to you. Of course the labels are going to be the labels.…
— Mary J. Blige
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Nowadays, with the state of the music business, for any artist, whether you're up-and-coming or you've been in it for awhile, you have to explore…
— Mary J. Blige
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This music business can suck all the love out of you, all the compassion for people - you can start to think you're better than…
— Mary J. Blige
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When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contract and I had to…
— Madonna Ciccone
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If this company is about anything, it's about discipline and staying focused.
— Jimmy Iovine
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We live in an age of music for people who don't like music. The record industry discovered some time ago that there aren't that many…
— T Bone Burnett
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That's not easy to find in a corporate world, somebody who cares about music.
— Michael Penn
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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
— Van Morrison
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[Commercial radio] is owned by one or two corporations now, and they're not in the music business. They're in the advertising business.... So let's not…
— Elvis Costello
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With my quick success, I didn't have time to learn the ropes of the music business. Because my first record was such a hit, I…
— Phoebe Snow
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The music business was not safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you know is bad for you,…
— Lionel Richie
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
— Larry Mullen, Jr.
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I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple. I don't…
— Van Morrison
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You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it...I always believed that I have something important to say and I said…
— Lou Reed
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My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't.
— Simon Cowell
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The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other…
— Jeremy Renner
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Being in the music business is a totally different industry right there.
— Christina Milian
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I have major respect for Kenny Chesney and Carrie Underwood and Sugarland. They are wonderful. They're superstars in the music business.
— Darius Rucker
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The people on the business side in the music business are kind of different from the theatre business. I think it's partly because there are…
— Tim Curry
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My skin is an art gallery right, with paintings and crucifixes hoping to save me from all the dangers in the music business
— Nas
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I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business.
— Jeff Healey
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