Break Quote by Steven Curtis Chapman

Someone told me there was a publisher that could find a good home for my songs, but I didn't want to give up my…

— Michael Bolton

I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career.

— Marguerite Young

I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York…

— Tupac Shakur

I certainly have gotten caught up in the music business at various times in my life, mostly because you want to get along with…

— Anonymous

When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside. It isn't like…

— Alan Garner

I don't envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways.

— Aimee Mann

In a sense, the music business and I haven't always been the best of bedfellows. Artists often have to fight their corner. Your music…

— Annie Lennox

I have finally become my own genre, and now that's what publishers want. I have a wonderful publisher now, Mulholland, very innovated, very fine…

— Joe R. Lansdale

I got out of the music industry many years ago. I had a charlatan for a producer who I wanted nothing to do with.…

— Leon Redbone

I work very closely with my publisher and just give them tons and tons of music, and then they link that with different songwriters…

— Dave Sitek

At some points I wanted to give up on music still, because the business is just as bad as it was when I left…

— Tweet

I should have my own publishing companies.

— Solomon Burke