Music Business Quotes

• The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.

  Erykah Badu

  Business, Feelings, Energy

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• 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 music business works.

  Moby

  Song, Writing, Artist

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• My advice to anyone wanting to get into the music business, is always be ready to learn and remain humble.

  Rayvon Owen

  Humble, Advice, Ready

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 10, 2016.

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• Music business is not for everyone. But if you have it in you, you have that passion, if you have that energy in you that you really want to make something creative and make something that's going to impact the world, then go for it, do it and don't let anybody tell you no.

  John Legend

  Passion, Impact, Creative

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The people who come out on top in music business have persistence. It is key! Fall down seven times; stand up eight. It takes a lot of courage and an unwavering belief in yourself and your abilities.

  Wendy Starland

  Fall, Persistence, Keys

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• The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing.

  Mark Kozelek

  Depressing, Challenges, Stressful

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2012.

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• Independent artists and labels have always been the trendsetters in music and the music business.

  Shawn Fanning

  Business, Independent, Artist

  "Napster brings indie labels on board" by Dan Milmo, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2001.

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• The whole music business in the United States is based on numbers, based on unit sales and not on quality. It's not based on beauty, it's based on hype and it's based on cocaine. It's based on giving presents of large packages of dollars to play records on the air.

  Frank Zappa

  Numbers, Air, Play

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• Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

  Van Morrison

  Funny, Music, Spiritual

  "The Times" [London], July 6, 1990.

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• We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Past, Glasses, Networking

  "Portrait of the artist: Jon Bon Jovi, musician". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2010.

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• I wish there had been a music business 101 course I could have taken.

  Kurt Cobain

  Taken, Wish, Courses

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• Music and the music business are two different things.

  Erykah Badu

  Business, Two, Different

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

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• Independent labels take nothing and make something out of it. Major labels buy that something, and try to make more out of it.

  Tom Silverman

  Independent, Trying, Labels

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• That's not easy to find in a corporate world, somebody who cares about music.

  Michael Penn

  Who Cares, World, Easy

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• The music business is not a good place for people who don't know things.

  Mary J. Blige

  People, Good Place, Knows

  "'I saw my life going down a drain'". Interview with Alex Macpherson, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2008.

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• I've made hundreds of legendary records that people talk about that didn't sell.

  Jerry Wexler

  People, Records, Legendary

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• If the milk industry can make their product seem sexy and increase consumer demand, there must be hope for music.

  Gary Arnold

  Sexy, Demand, Milk

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• If this company is about anything, it's about discipline and staying focused.

  Jimmy Iovine

  Discipline, Stay Focused, Company

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• Anybody that forms a group, writes songs and releases records and says they don't care if people like them are complete liars.

  James Dean Bradfield

  Song, Liars, Writing

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• Just because it happened to you, doesn't mean it's interesting.

  Dennis Hopper

  Mean, Interesting, Happened

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• We're the McDonalds of rock. Were always there to satisfy, and a billion served.

  Paul Stanley

  Rocks, Mcdonalds, Billions

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• The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, Dog, Money

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• I never had the feeling I ever had to make a dime doing anything.

  Rick Rubin

  Feelings, Dimes

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• Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman. We will always remember her fondly.

  Dolly Parton

  Country, Queens, Inspiration

  "Kitty Wells blazed country path for women" By Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. July 17, 2012.

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• He took my music, but he gave me my name.

  Muddy Waters

  Names

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