Music business Quote by Freedy Johnston Download Open image “I'm a snake oil salesman as much as anyone else, but I try to keep something for myself.” — Freedy Johnston ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Music business Oil Salesman Snakes Trying
Some of them wanted to sell me snake oil and I'm not necessarily going to dismiss all of these, as I have never found… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
People will buy snake oil from anybody who seems to be selling it in a persuasive way. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy. — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
You see yourself as a good product that sits on a shelf and sells well, and people make a lot of money out of… — Princess Diana Copy Share Image
Snake has been everything to me. Look at where I was when I started with the company in 1988 and where I'm at now.… — Larry Dixon Copy Share Image
Most people like me are having a tough time. But it's fine. I don't really think about it as a career. I don't need… — Freedy Johnston Copy Share Image
The most sophisticated pop musician that I knew of and liked was Paul McCartney. — Freedy Johnston Copy Share Image
At that time there was, but they didn't have the guitar I wanted. There are only about 2000 people there and the next town… — Freedy Johnston Copy Share Image
Well I'm not a storyteller, as far as telling stories which relate to experiences in my own life. That's not what I do. I… — Freedy Johnston Copy Share Image
When you hear my records today hear a vanilla sounding artist with no black inflection, although I was trying to imitate what I heard. — Pat Boone Copy Share Image
There are thousands of great artists that wouldn't be doing the same kind of work if there were no music business machine. The ones… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
In 1989 I sort of got back into the music business and one of the reasons I got back in is [that] I put… — Ringo Starr Copy Share Image
You're a musician and you live and die by people responding to your music. It's a business just like anything else and if people… — Marc Martel Copy Share Image
Having people around you that are honest with you, and having a team around you that can actually track and communicate where things are… — Muneshine Copy Share Image
There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in… — Adam Duritz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I got into the music business thinking it was really radical, that it wasn't really a business at all, that it was a lot… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
I'm definitely an anomaly, but I'm making things. They're selling, say, martinis, and I'm kind of making vintage Riesling. People aren't going to sit… — Ben Folds Copy Share Image
I think I would have just thrived in the 70s. Because firstly, there'd be no Internet and you'd have to actually get to know… — Naughty Boy Copy Share Image
Around 20. I'd been trying to transition from the streets to the music business, but I would make demos and then quit for six… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
“Waiting to be discovered, hoping to be seen, wishing someone else would do the work, wanting to make it big while dreaming of being… — Loren Weisman Copy Share Image