Being Quote by Jack Conte

If you let record companies mold you into what they think you should be, your career won't last no matter how good your music…

— B-Real

I've always seen myself as a working musician but now there's no money in records for the artist at all, it's all in live…

— Paul Young

I think these days, as an artist, you have to be slightly entrepreneurial. ...Nobody really sells records anymore.

— Boy George

When you don't have a record label and you have been on your own as we have, you can look at all these other…

— Andy Taylor

If you make money back from your record, you're doing it smart. It's an expensive hobby. I'm lucky enough to still make a living…

— Robyn Hitchcock

Leaving your old record label doesn't have to be a stall in your career. It's like new life being breathed into it.

— Lari White

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

I still like to play the guitar, but I rarely have anything to do with the music business these days. I mean, there is…

— Steve Jones

With the new ways of getting music out, you don't need a label if you're a legacy artist.

— Bonnie Raitt

Music is a business. You ain't gonna record with someone if it's not business, if it ain't gonna get you no money.

— Anuel AA

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

If you're going to call yourself a musician, you have to go out and make music.

— Paolo Nutini