Business Quote by Jimmy Iovine

Those folks at Death Row were the Rolling Stones of their time.

— Jimmy Iovine

I think one of the ways that these young singers got started is that they would end up in clubs. And a lot of…

— John Lloyd Young

There was a lot of freedom, so bands in those days did not have to play for the public. They played for club owners…

— Dr. John

Ultimately, Dead Prez should have went multi-platinum. But when people didn't rally around them, I knew the black hip-hop audience had become far less…

— Killer Mike

Back in the early 1980s when rappers couldn't perform in the fancy venues because the police were too racist and scared, it was the…

— JPEGMAFIA

In the 1990s I got to play in a group that played in prisons in California. We would play in maximum security wards. It…

— Vijay Iyer

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

— Alex Kapranos

You know, they wanted to do a Broadway album and every show was kind of a bomb. There was no music at all.

— Les Baxter

Motown was about music for all people – white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our…

— Berry Gordy

Motown was the mecca. It was every writer's dream to work there.

— Valerie Simpson

The band couldn't have happened anywhere else in the world but New York. That was the catalyst.

— Jan Hammer

The music business was not safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you know is bad for…

— Lionel Richie