Focus Quote by Tony Kanal

We know how fickle the public and the music industry is.

— Tony Kanal

Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the…

— Moby

In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it's not what my writing is about.…

— David Friedman

The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it.

— Bobby Hutcherson

I realised that music controls me more than I control music. I had to write songs that were convincing me that things would get…

— Jens Lekman

The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it. If you're swept away by…

— Bobby Hutcherson

In the end, our way of writing music is a long process of experimentation. We enjoy the luxury of taking this very seriously and…

— Justin Chancellor

What we've had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we're doing -…

— Janis Joplin

Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the…

— Keren Ann

One thing the music industry has taught me is to manage my expectations.

— Q-Tip

Managing yourself, writing and performing your own music can teach you a lot.

— Jay Sean

As a journalist, I have wanted very much to find a way to write about the music industry, and it's been frustrating to me…

— Jennifer Egan