Music Industry Quotes - Page 11

• It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy.

  Chubby Checker

  Real, Soldier, Able

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• Times are tough in the music industry, and now more than ever we need people like the team at Paste looking out for artists on the fringe of the mainstream.

  Cary Brothers

  Team, Artist, People

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• I think where it's going is toward what the music industry is like, where channels will be considered more like labels that carry the type of TV show that you like, and then you'll consume them however you can. For example, I don't really watch Showtime, but I bought 'Homeland,' and I've been watching every episode on my iPad.

  Adam Pally

  Thinking, Tv Shows, Ipads

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes it's difficult because you like some regularity in your life, but never knowing who's gonna pop up at what show, what person you might see that you don't expect to see in that city, what problem you're gonna have that night, even the problems at some of these venues, if you look at them the right way, it's an adventure. You're like a cowboy. That's the best part about being in the music industry. You get your gun and you ride your horse.

  Colin Munroe

  Horse, Adventure, Gun

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• I was like the roadie, I was carrying gear, checking things in at airports, making sure they had flowers backstage and interfacing with promoters who were sometimes really nice and sometimes a little seedy. It was a great apprenticeship, to be in the music industry.

  Annie E. Clark

  Nice, Flower, Airports

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• Mick Jagger has produced some great films and brought us stories about the music industry that have changed the way we think about how music is made.

  Olivia Wilde

  Thinking, Stories, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• I think that I have grown a lot as an artist. I have been writing about my experiences of love and overcoming the struggles that I have faced in the music industry. I have so much more to tell my fans, and I know so much more about myself. It is crazy how much I have grown over these past years.

  Jessica Sanchez

  Crazy, Struggle, Writing

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. January 19, 2016.

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• I saw the 'Popstars' programme and to me it looked more like 'Opportunity Knocks' than the kind of cutting-edge postmoderism that The Guardian would like to have us believe it was. I think what it's more about is the public and the music industry's bloodlust. It's just like someone itching to say 'Oh, confound it all, let's bring back hanging, that was good entertainment'.

  Luke Haines

  Believe, Cutting, Opportunity

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• Its just kind of known in the music industry that a farewell tour means for now.

  Nikki Sixx

  Farewell, Mean, Kind

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• I didnt have any knowledge of the music industry when I first got to L.A., and I really didnt know on a creative level what I wanted to sound like, so I had to do a lot of experimenting. It led to a spiral of depression and being broke.

  Skylar Grey

  Creative, Sound, Levels

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• I think we have to change our thinking and the music industry has to shift and look at how people are acquiring their music now. They want it differently. They're getting it in a different way and you just have to adjust.

  Warryn Campbell

  Thinking, People, Different

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• I'm fascinated with the attitude of younger rock bands, even ones that are making money at it. I don't ever hear them talk about it as a "career." It almost makes me think there isn't even a music industry anymore, like an atom bomb fell and it was just eradicated forever.

  Travis Morrison

  Attitude, Thinking, Rocks

  "The Dismemberment Plan". Interview with Lindsay Zoladz, pitchfork.com. June 27, 2013.

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• Because you're a woman, the music industry puts you in another corner. I want to be fighting with the men. I want to be amongst the men, topless, throwing things onstage.
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  Lykke Li

  Fighting, Men, Want

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The music industry went through such a strange stretch in 1977, especially in this country, with the whole punk rock thing coming about. Punk was rebellious-and justified in that response-but it had very little to do with music, and so it created a highly-charged but frighteningly floundering atmosphere that I found very, very disheartening. Musical quality for me has always been an important part of rock'n'roll-and winning recognition for that has long been an uphill battle all the way. Punk seemed like rock'n'roll utterly without the music.

  Steve Winwood

  Country, Winning, Rocks

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• The music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment. And I’m not willing to contribute my life’s work to an experiment that I don’t feel fairly compensates the writers, producers, artists, and creators of this music. And I just don’t agree with perpetuating the perception that music has no value and should be free.

  Taylor Swift

  Artist, Perception, Should

  "Exclusive: Taylor Swift on Being Pop's Instantly Platinum Wonder... And Why She's Paddling Against the Streams". Interview with Chris Willman, www.yahoo.com. November 6, 2014.

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• Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.

  Gus Van Sant

  Records, Venture, Selling

  Interview with Madonna, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 3, 2010.

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• Downloadable music is the biggest musical phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is slow to come to grips with that.

  Chuck D

  Musical, Music Is, Phenomenon

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• The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

  Jonathan Davis

  Feels, Industry

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• I'm not interested in forcing my music on people, and that's what the whole music industry nowadays is based on is forcing stations to play it, forcing people to listen to it.

  John Frusciante

  Play, People, Listen To Your Heart

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• When you look at what people consider success in the music industry, it's just terrible music.

  Conor Oberst

  People, Looks, Terrible

  "Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes". Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. December 11, 2007.

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• I think the Grammys are nothing more than some gigantic promotional machine for the music industry. They cater to a low intellect and they feed the masses. They don't honor the arts or the artist for what he created. It's the music business celebrating itself.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Art, Thinking, Honor

  "Tool at the Grammys". www.indiewire.com. February 11, 2008.

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• If Apple's a technology company in the music industry, why can't somebody in the music industry make technology?

  will.i.am

  Technology, Apples, Company

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'd rather kill myself than work in the music industry today.

  David Geffen

  Today, Industry

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• The Grammys make me hate music, and certainly everyone in the ass-licking music industry.

  Trent Reznor

  Hate, Licking, Ass

  "Trent Reznor Slams Grammys With A 'Heartfelt F**k You' After Performance Cut-Off". www.contactmusic.com. January 27, 2014.

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• The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn't it?

  Ronnie James Dio

  Real, Stupidity, Greed

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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