Appease Quote by Patti Smith

The problem was the journalists who also did not understand much of my music, but they wrote about it. I think you fell into…

— Klaus Schulze

I decided to do whatever I could to make sure the business side of music didn't intrude on the creative part.

— Tracy Chapman

I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur.

— Patti Smith

I do feel as if my own music as quite flawed, and it's that frailty or lack of technical proficiency that goes hand-in-hand with…

— Justin Broadrick

I simply make music, and people have always been foolish enough to pay me for it. I never told them that I would have…

— Leopold Stokowski

It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.

— Tori Amos

But I needed to prove to everyone that I was a serious musician.

— Jonny Lang

I didn't start in the music business to make money.

— Porter Wagoner

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

— Jeff Gutt

For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.

— Charles Hazlewood

I'm a big advocate of music being an honest representation of who you are as a person and your perspective.

— Miguel

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by…

— Billy Joel