Music Business Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• I just had to find all my friends that used to be in the business. As I say, the music business didn't die, it just moved to Nashville.

  Lionel Richie

  Nashville, Used, Moved

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• The truth is an artist like me who doesn't get the type of promotion that we see more commercial artists receive, and especially in this climate of the music business, you have to be creative about how you promote yourself.

  Chrisette Michele

  Artist, Creative, Climate

  "On 3rd album, Chrisette Michele finds a new voice". Interview with Mesfin Fekadu, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. December 1, 2010.

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• I am right at the bottom compared to everybody else with press kits and demos and trying to get meetings. That's what I love about music and hate about it. That's why I respect people that are successful in the music business because you really have to build it from the ground up.

  Drake

  Hate, Successful, People

  HipHop Canada Interview, www.hiphopcanada.com. July 12, 2006.

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• I wanted to do an acting role in a movie that had nothing to do with the music business or in which I would play a singer or a songwriter. When I act, I don't even want to be thought of as Ne-Yo.

  Ne-Yo

  Play, Acting, Roles

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Without a doubt, because now in the music business talent and hard work isn't enough. There is just a lot of luck and marketing money involved in making any artist break. "Fall Down" is about a relationship, but you could certainly apply it to the relationship we've had with each other and throughout our career.

  Jason C. Miller

  Fall, Hard Work, Artist

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• I think the Ambitious Lovers never got their due- we had terrible management and at that point, we were on major labels and we didn't have any music business savvy which we could have used. We made a series of hilarious mistakes not in terms of music but in terms of making it happen.

  Arto Lindsay

  Mistake, Thinking, Ambitious

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• When I was touring and spending so much time on the bus, I realized that I actually knew very little about the industry that I'm in so I set out to educate myself on the music business.

  Ty Herndon

  Littles, Touring, Spending

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• Elvis Presley is all there is. There just ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with Elvis. He wrote the book. He is everything to do and not to do in the music business.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Book, Ends

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• The things Elvis has done during his career and the things he has contributed and created are really something very important to the music business.

  Bing Crosby

  Careers, Important, Done

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• Great music can come from anywhere around the globe. And there has always been a music business. It just wasn't recorded, nor was it centered in New York, London, Los Angeles or Nashville but rather St Petersburg, Vienna, Berlin, Milan and Paris.

  Seymour Stein

  New York, Nashville, Paris

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I'm excited about the old songs. That's a nice place to be after grinding out the music business for twenty years.

  Five for Fighting

  Song, Nice, Years

  "John Ondrasik Interview from Five For Fighting". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It's a scary question for a musician or songwriter today - what does the future hold? It is a strange time in the music business too; it feels like we are all in some kind of transitional period, stuck between old technology and new.

  Dean Wareham

  Technology, Scary, Musician

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Being in the music business requires having a very strong resolve. You must be completely committed to the craziness that will inevitably ensue when pursing a career in music. There is no one who is immune to this. Not even the biggest music icons.

  Wendy Starland

  Strong, Careers, Icons

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.

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• Everyone faces challenges from the fierce competition as well as the manipulative crooks that are rampant throughout the music business.

  Wendy Starland

  Competition, Challenges, Crooks

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.

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• Barry Manilow is a guy who's had a tremendous longevity that few have had in the music business. I'm in awe of what he does.

  Dave Koz

  Guy, Doe, Longevity

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• In those days, if you wanted a new car or a holiday, you'd phone up the office and they'd send you some cash. You never had a bank account. I don't know anyone from the music business in the Seventies that it didn't happen to.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Holiday, Phones, Car

  Interview with David Furnish, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. October 2004.

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• Never compromise and sell yourself short. I've been in the music business, a girl group . . . I've been through so many different things in my career, and when you compromise and try to let go of who you are, you wind up being unhappy, and what is success without happiness. You have to have both, and that is important to me.

  Naturi Naughton

  Girl, Letting Go, Wind

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• I would say I know nothing about the music business, in a nice sort of way. I totally forgot I was in that music video. That's so funny.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Nice, Video, Way

  "Zooey Deschanel thrilled to be in She & Him". Interview with Marc Hirsh, www.today.com. March 18, 2008.

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• It's a funny line when you're walking - the creativity, the subjectivity versus the objectivity, creativity versus the business, and recognizing that you are in the music business, so there are certain things that you have to acquiesce to on the business side and certain creative decisions that you have to make for the purposes of serving the business side of it.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Creativity, Objectivity, Creative

  "Hip-hop artist Lupe Fiasco". “The Tavis Smiley Show”, www.pbs.org. March 9, 2011.

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• I'm feeling like the music business is reaping what it's sown. It's going through what inevitably it was going to go through. It was a very decadent, very glamorous business that took advantage of a lot of people for a long time and didn't do things right and had a poor business model.

  Adam Levine

  Long, People, Feelings

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Sometimes, I think the way the music business has been destructive and the way the fans are been put through it and try to navigate through it, so much is so foreign to what musicians would actually want to do or what would be natural to them.

  Beck

  Thinking, Trying, Way

  Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. July 13, 2009.

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• There's always peripheral things that you like that you don't know, but starting with whatever his British influences are, are some of my favourite artists, and the American things are what I grew up on as well. In the end, for me, it's those foundations of the music business - those things that are a lot of the foundations of what music today is. You can hear a bit of all of those things that we talk about in almost all music today.

  Paul Weller

  Artist, Foundation, Today

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

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• [I did impressions] of relatives because I heard so many different sounds. My dad was in the music business and of course my uncle was a giant [music producer], but my dad in particular had the house filled with these Dixieland jazz stars.

  Billy Crystal

  Stars, Uncles, Dad

  "Billy Crystal Finds Fun In Growing Old (But Still Can't Find His Keys)". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. October 17, 2013.

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