Business Quote by Scott Stapp

I let go of so much stuff I hated about the industry. I didn't like what I'd seen, I didn't like what had happened…

— Jack Savoretti

I was just burnt out. I didn't like the music business and I didn't like me. There's an element of falseness about the whole…

— Rick Astley

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

— Jeff Gutt

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

I wanted to resign from the planet, not just music. It stopped being fun with success. Money got in the way. Everybody got greedy,…

— Artie Shaw

When I came into the music, I was forced to be a CEO. I was forced to be an entrepreneur; I was forced to...…

— Jay-Z

My contract with mercury PolyGram Nashville was about to expire. And I never had really been happy. The company, the record company, just didn't…

— Johnny Cash

Actually, my career as a music director turned out to be a disappointment. I believed I gave good songs but the response and recognition…

— Vijay Antony

A lot of executives simply told me that my sound was dated and wouldn't work, kind of telling me essentially to go away, that…

— Carly Pearce

If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke…

— Noel Gallagher

I was trying to find my way into the music business still, but I didn't want to portray something that I wasn't. I really…

— Ginuwine