Music Business Quotes - Page 11

• 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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• 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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• There are few words in the music business or in art that I'll say people or some writers are overgenerous with words like 'legend' or 'genius', 'he's a pioneer' and all of that.

  Stanley Clarke

  Art, People, Pioneers

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• The unifying thread through all these different aspects of music business is just my attraction toward working with sounds and designing new scary, evil, dark sounds.

  Charlie Clouser

  Dark, Evil, Design

  "Nine Inch Nails' Charlie Clouser makes American Horror Story and Saw sound creepy". Interview With Alex McLevy, www.avclub.com. July 2, 2016.

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• I think the music business is becoming more difficult. It's really taken a big hit with piracy, so it's a lot more difficult. I mean, it was kind of an impractical career choice when I did it 25 years ago, but nowadays it's truly reckless.

  Cliff Martinez

  Taken, Mean, Thinking

  "Neon Melodies: Composer Cliff Martinez Interviewed". Interview with Adam White, thequietus.com. July 1, 2016.

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• The music business - and I guess you could say any artistic endeavor - usually rewards those who are on the leading edge of where everything is going, but you can't be too far.

  Billy Corgan

  Rewards, Artistic, Endeavor

  "A Conversation With Billy Corgan Part II". Interview with Sharon London, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The music business is a place where the artists are all treated like we're working for the people who are working for us. That can obviously be exaggerated when you're a female.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Artist, People, Female

  "Singer, Songwriter, Boss: Sinéad O'Connor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It will be only a matter of time before the music business establishment completely folds.

  Thom Yorke

  Matter, Establishment, Folds

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• [Music] business can drive you to do that if you don't have it here. If you're not strong-minded here, it could steer you the wrong way and when it steers you the wrong way, then it might take forever to get back.

  Bow Wow

  Strong, Forever, Might

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• I feel like I've survived so much, and been through so much. And sometimes I miss the innocence of those times. Life was different. New York was different. The music business was different. I miss the simplicity of it, the naivete of everyone around me.

  Madonna Ciccone

  New York, Simplicity, Missing

  Source: www.independent.ie

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• Some artists are told what to like and told definitions of what the music business is. That's a problem. Music is artistry, and you want your music heard, your act known. But artists don't know. They are ignorant the minute they sign a contract.

  Chuck D

  Artist, Ignorant, Definitions

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I tell people I'm big in the music business like a barnacle is big in shipping.

  Vance Gilbert

  People, Shipping, Barnacles

  Source: www.minor7th.com

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• The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer.

  John Oates

  Bricks And Mortar, Bricks, Mortar

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• It's very tough for a woman in the music business, and he really was such a motivator from the beginning, when I was super-shy, and he saw a lot in me on a personal level that he knew could carry through on the stage.

  Gloria Estefan

  Shy, Levels, Saws

  "Singer-songwriter Gloria Estefan". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. October 1, 2013.

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• Hollywood is about playing the game, and I can't think of any successful actresses who didn't play the game. There's a lot more renegades in the music business, from Patti Smith to Janis Joplin.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Successful, Thinking, Games

  "Ray of light: Madonna and her love affair with the lens". Interview with Vince Aletti, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 1999.

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• I was a time bomb waiting to detonate, burned out, sick of the music business, out of touch with everything and heavily abusing various substances, disillusioned with life, and intensely needed to work on my character. The only way I could see to do that was to withdraw completely from public life as I had known it before.

  Charles Lloyd

  Character, Sick, Waiting

  "A Fireside Chat With Charles Lloyd". All About Jazz Interview, www.allaboutjazz.com. May 17, 2004.

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• The tax incentives are things the music business can emulate. If I own Yesterday by the Beatles and I go to a bank and try to borrow $10,000 and use that song as collateral, they wouldn't know what to do. They would run me out of the bank. Whereas if we get specialized people who know how to appraise the value of intellectual property like songs, catalogs and master recordings, they know how to put some type of value on it. They have this in Nashville and Los Angeles. New Orleans is just starting to get it.

  Chris Thomas King

  Running, Song, New Orleans

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• I don't know if there was really ever a golden age of the music business. Most of what was released has always been garbage and some has been able to get through and last. I don't know that it was much better thirty years ago. The music industry just wasn't as efficient. The music industry was more oddball guys who did it for fun and now they are huge corporations that have become more structured.

  Adam Schlesinger

  Fun, Years, Guy

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• I've certainly stayed a marginal figure, though I became a member of the "surveillance committee" fairly early on. I can actually live pretty well with this, because I'm allowed to work in peace - except when I have to give strings of interviews... And also, I've never sought a position of power in the music business. I became a teacher not so as to found a Kagel School, but to transmit knowledge. My work as a composer should be the only yardstick by which my contribution can be measured.

  Mauricio Kagel

  Teacher, School, Position Of Power

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• Many of us would probably not be in the music business - or never would have been in the music business - had The Beatles not demonstrated that this kind of music, or this kind of performance, was actually viable as a career alternative.

  Todd Rundgren

  Kind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Coming from the era of vinyl you could argue that everything went wrong in the music business the moment we went digital. The day the first CD came out, it all went downhill in the music industry. Digital destroyed everything.

  Andy Summers

  Arguing, Moments, Vinyl

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• Having people around you that are honest with you, and having a team around you that can actually track and communicate where things are working and where they're not working, is really an invaluable asset to an artist's career. I just see it time and again, people who have no clue about that stuff. It's frustrating, and I see the frustration for them. It's a weird thing being an artist, trying to navigate the music business with little to no help.

  Muneshine

  Team, Artist, Frustration

  Source: www.thecomeupshow.com

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• I think I am like everyone else in the music business these days - you have to adjust to the times and deliver whatever people want, and are using to consume the music.

  Rick DeJesus

  Thinking, People

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• I think for us, we don't feel like the future of music is in the act of being a record company. We feel like the future of the music business is in empowering artists to have better and better tools to communicate with their fans. We want to be people who are saying to artists, "Look, you don't need that company over there to release your album. You can do it this way." Almost more of a band partnership than a label-artist relationship. Not about ownership of content, but about empowerment.

  Zac Hanson

  Thinking, Artist, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I used to practice piano for hours, and now, with a synthesizer, you can input the music and the machine perfects the song. That's why we have so many people in the music business who should be plumbers. They don't really understand music because they haven't been trained.

  Quincy Jones

  Song, People, Hours

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