Being done Quote by Stephin Merritt

A lot of music is just made in the studio and that's what it is. But it's not how it has to be.

— Sky Blu

Seems like more and more of the technical side, quality, and sound of music is of higher importance in the music business... and less…

— Ellis Hadlock

Technology has made it much easier to make and manipulate music. Studio-driven, machine-driven music does not always transcend into being a good live act.…

— Vivian Campbell

I think after music is performance because it is also an immaterial form of art, and then there's everything else.

— Igor Levit

Sometimes, I think the way the music business has been destructive and the way the fans are been put through it and try to…

— Beck

I believe that music is about making quality things, making quality art, and no matter who you decide to work with, you and that…

— Common

The more people who come from musical backgrounds and go into promotion, production, songwriting, A&R, plus get their business head together, the better. They'll…

— Harvey Mason, Jr

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

Music has as many roles as people make it.

— Ani DiFranco

Engineering producers who don't play and have technology as a background may be the reason why there's a lot of cold non-musical music, for…

— Bill Laswell

I think anybody that is going to be taken seriously in [music] industry needs to produce their own original music.

— Paul Oakenfold

Musicians are like a preacher, a teacher, an actor. You are the mediator who can transfer the energy of beautiful music to the others.

— Demis Roussos