Music Business Quotes - Page 10

• That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.

  Steven Morrissey

  Communication, People, Inconvenience

  "The Importance of Being Morrissey". Documentary, Biography, Music, 2003.

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• When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks and there's always a certain level of tension in your life. The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing. After all of these years, I'm still trying to cope with aspects of it.

  Mark Kozelek

  Depressing, Challenges, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think if you feel weird and self-conscious about that kind of stuff - which happened to me at some points - that means your ego is really kicking in. You can understand how people get to be assholes in music business because it's like you're getting pumped full of your own thing so much, you get ungrounded. That's a dangerous place to be.

  Justin Vernon

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Education is extremely important, especially in my business, the music business.

  Ludacris

  Education, Important

  "Ludacris says 'education is extremely important' for music career" by Mawuse Ziegbe, www.mtv.com. September 25, 2010.

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• The music business is just the worst as far as Machiavellian, sharky, evil games going on, as far as manipulation.

  Robert Greene

  Games, Evil, Manipulation

  Source: allhiphop.com

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• I never really expected any of the music business to happen, but I'm glad it did. It was a very cool thing to happen. It was a hobby for me. I used to do it to meet girls. If you had long hair and could play a guitar then you got girls. That's how I started. Then I fell in love with the music and got carried away.

  John Martyn

  Girl, Hair, Guitar

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• A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

  Loretta Lynn

  Two, Cents, Two Cents

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• The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.

  Billy Corgan

  Running, Business, Home

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• Being larger than life, or being projected as such in the music business, leads you to question yourself. Some people try to forget about it by taking drugs or too much drink, but I was never like that. I was aware that there were very serious, big questions, and I was petrified about what might be in store for me.

  Cat Stevens

  People, Drug, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In business, you can have one massive success that earns $50 million overnight, and that's it. You're successful. End of story. But in the music business, you have to keep on doing it.

  Noel Gallagher

  Successful, Stories, Ends

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• 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 thing. Even things like doing an interview. It's not as though we just met in the pub and are having a chat - it's part of a process. If you do it all day, every day for years, you end up thinking: 'Who the hell am I?' I was lucky enough to make some money, enough to let me kick back. It was a great experience and it was nice to have a couple of No.1s but the best thing about it was that the money I made allowed me to have freedom and choice in my life.

  Rick Astley

  Couple, Nice, Thinking

  Interview with James Ellis, metro.co.uk. October 27, 2009.

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• I can't say I was consciously thinking of the big changes in the music business when I was writing the lyrics, but change, uncertainty, flux, impermanence - these are things I'm acutely aware of. And I enjoy facing it all.

  Rivers Cuomo

  Writing, Thinking, Enjoy

  Source: music.avclub.com

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• I have a lot of dislike for the business end of the music business, particularly what they call shopping for a label. It can be a real stupid thing.

  Grant Hart

  Real, Stupid, Dislike

  Source: music.avclub.com

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• I think for a lot of new bands, although they have a lot of opportunity, this music business is not giving them a long-term career. I think there's some terrible stuff that comes out and we are bombarded by likes of The X Factor, Pop Idol and all those programs that I don't really like and I don't approve of.

  Susan Ann Sulley

  Opportunity, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Whenever you're in a chaotic environment, there are some of the best opportunities. Nobody knows where the music business is going, but I know one thing: it's going to be about fan-artist relationships and how you monetize that. The business isn't going to turn around the way we're doing it now.

  Tom Silverman

  Opportunity, Environment, Nobody Knows

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• My goal in this music business is to be here as long as I'm alive. I want my music to be here. I want to be the Michael Jackson and the Prince of hip-hop. I want to be a legend. I want to change the world. I want to give them songs that mean something.

  Petey Pablo

  Song, Mean, Long

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• Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn't even doing the singing. I'm a bit cynical about this [music] business.

  Bette Midler

  Song, Ideas, Voice

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• When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.

  Bette Midler

  Dream, Would Be, Fuzzy

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• From being a little girl in the projects, going through all of the mess that I was going through, to ending up at the Inauguration for the first African-American president, I'm speechless right now because I never thought I'd - I never ever - I couldn't even see that far. Even when I ended up in the music business I couldn't see that.

  Mary J. Blige

  Girl, African American, President

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", transcripts.cnn.com. December 7, 2011.

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• The music business has changed so much. Collaborations are all over the Internet. The young people are keeping the old school alive. A lot of them run out of ideas so they grab these songs that we've had out for 50 years and bringing them back and making people rich again. That's a nice thing. A lot of artists don't have incomes after a certain time in their life because nobody's is buying the songs. This revival of their music has taken a lot of writers out of the poor house.

  Dutch Robinson

  Running, Song, Nice

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• 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 and mirrors.

  Noel Gallagher

  Mirrors, Honest, Intention

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• This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.

  Jennifer Egan

  Business, Years, Hundred

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.26, Anchor

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• You know, my goal, once I leave the music business, is like, 'Man, Lupe didn't lead us astray.' It comes directly from Islam: leading people astray is the worst thing you could do. Especially in perpetuity; like, your music continues to go on and live without you. That risk is too great for me; I'm gonna keep it positive.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Men, People, Goal

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• Some people are the greatest people on Earth with good hearts and will get in the studio and make the most negative music in the world for the sake of success. That's what the music business does to you. That's what capitalism does to you.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Heart, People, Doe

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• I really worked with icons in the music business, which really had a strong effect on me. It wasn't just pick-up gigs.

  Kevin Eubanks

  Strong, Icons, Gigs

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