Around the corner Quote by Ronnie Hawkins

'The bigtime for you is just around the corner.' They told me that first in 1952 - boy, it's been a long corner. If…

— Ronnie Hawkins

I'm so glad I didn't go into the big-music industry until I was 19 or 20.

— Sigrid

The more years you put behind you, hopefully making music that surpasses what you did before, you're playing bigger places and it kind of…

— Mark Lanegan

The Big Band Era is my era. People say, 'Where did you get your style from?' I did the Big Band Era on guitar.…

— Chuck Berry

There's so much business that comes into play in the music industry, and honestly, it just got old to me.

— Sky Blu

I've been through this fame thing before, when the band was big in '80, '81.

— John Lurie

I definitely got to a point where I realize how unusual it is to be able to play large, sold-out shows 30 years into…

— Adam Clayton

If you think the music business is the be-all and end-all of life, you're in big trouble.

— Simon Rattle

The Big Music Project gives young people access to producers, managers, set designers, artists and a load of other industry insiders who are at…

— MNEK

I started making beats when Big Mouth came out, whatever year that was.

— J Dilla

I think that the old Mothers started that trend of rehearsing long hours. We went as long as the later bands did except we…

— Jimmy Carl Black

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band…

— Alan Greenspan