Decision Quote by Ethan Carter III

I had walked away from the music industry because I had a certain integrity and all that.

— Jeff Gutt

I wanted to resign from the planet, not just music. It stopped being fun with success. Money got in the way. Everybody got greedy,…

— Artie Shaw

I knew I wanted to do music, but leaving such a successful career one would think I'd kind of shot myself in the foot.…

— Avi Kaplan

I worked for a big corporation for a decade for the majority of my youth. Now I really like the opportunity to essentially play…

— Cody Rhodes

I left my band on my own, and it took me a long time to find major success again - almost a decade. And…

— Greg Kurstin

The best decision I ever made, period, was to get into the music business.

— Ja Rule

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

I've had the great luxury in my career to be so successful as a songwriter that I didn't have the desperate need to have…

— Eric Carmen

I let go of so much stuff I hated about the industry. I didn't like what I'd seen, I didn't like what had happened…

— Jack Savoretti

I couldn't concentrate on music. So I made the choice to give up my career as a musician in the frontline to deal with…

— Robert Fripp

My singing really seemed to connect with people, and it ended up as my main career, which I love.

— Mayer Hawthorne

I got out of the business because I went from being the biggest artist on my record label to someone they didn't even want…

— Billy Squier