Art Quote by Lil B

When we started it was only for the fun. We never had any thoughts of legacy or anything like that. It was a thrill…

— Ron Mael

The greatest artists were in a situation where they had to pay their bills. That's a very convenient way to get very creative very…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.

— Hal Price

When we were doing music, that's how we did-we just did it for the music. We weren't thinking about money, we weren't thinking about…

— DJ Yella

Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of…

— Neil Young

That era in the late '80s through the '90s was really when the music was so new, fresh, energetic, but still creative. It hadn't…

— Terry Gross

Music will always be my first love, but it was time to diversify into something that had the ability to really create a financial…

— Ray J

This was work (music industry) but it was the awakening to what was to become a life's passion.

— Clive Davis

Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and…

— Gary Wright

About 1990 there was a huge shakeup in the music industry and the 6 major record companies fired all the music people and hired…

— Geoff Tate

Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am.

— Harry Mathews

Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.

— Dmitri Shostakovich