Music Business Quotes - Page 13

• I put up with the music business because I understand that I'm in the tradition, I'm in a tradition that's of far greater importance than the business I seem to be in. Everywhere I go in the world, people ask me about the business that I seem to be in, but I'm not really in that business.

  Billy Corgan

  People, World, Tradition

  "A Conversation with Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins". Interview with Sharon London, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• To come out in the music business, you only really get one shot. A lot of people get to play small gigs first, and build up that way, without anyone really seeing them.

  Dhani Harrison

  Play, People, Gigs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing.

  Jan Hammer

  Impossible, Problem, Reason

  4 Copy quote

• I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism.

  Peter Hook

  Thinking, Mind, Would Be

  22 Copy quote

• The music business doesn't take up that much of my time. I probably should put a little more energy into it.

  Alan Jackson

  Energy, Littles, Should

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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's a small percentile of people who see one dime out of the music business.

  Chad Kroeger

  People, Dimes

  8 Copy quote

• The music business has changed incredibly. There used to be 50 record companies. Now there's only three, and it's just getting smaller and smaller. But then again, you have the Internet, so anybody who has music can get it out there.

  Joey McIntyre

  Records, Three, Internet

  "New Kids on the Block take fans back". Interview with Shanon Cook, edition.cnn.com. April 1, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's also, I think more so in the music business and especially for women, this ceiling that people put on you if you have children or a family and decide to spend time with them.

  Juice Newton

  Children, Thinking, People

  8 Copy quote

• I think the music business is probably not happy with what we've done, because the people buying the record have actually got to pick what they want to buy, rather than being told what they should buy.

  John Otway

  Thinking, People, Done

  4 Copy quote

• The whole point of 'Acid Rap' was just to ask people a question: does the music business side of this dictate what type of project this is? If it's all original music and it's got this much emotion around it and it connects this way with this many people, is it a mixtape? What's an 'album' these days, anyways?

  Chance the Rapper

  Rap, People, Doe

  211 Copy quote

• I was always a singer. But I was always focused on being an actor as my trade. Music I do just for me. The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible.

  Jeremy Renner

  Actors, Singers, Impossible

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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history.

  Nancy Sinatra

  Fall, Steps, Gone

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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I finished high school, moved to Nashville for college, and set out to break into the music business. Every night when I called home with news of my experiences, my mom and dad would encourage me to keep taking those small steps.

  Trisha Yearwood

  Mom, Dad, Home

  4 Copy quote

• The best decision I ever made, period, was to get into the music business.

  Ja Rule

  Decision, Made, Periods

  "Ja Rule: 'I'm in Love with a Church Girl' Interview with Kam Williams". www.eurweb.com. October 8, 2013.

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• I love the music business very much.

  Connie Smith

  5 Copy quote

• I certainly have gotten caught up in the music business at various times in my life, mostly because you want to get along with whatever record company you're dealing with. I don't want to be flaky. I don't want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician.

  Black Francis

  Musician, Records, Want

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 23, 1998.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you had ever heard my album you would know that I could never consider the music business!

  Dwayne Hickman

  Albums, Heard, Knows

  4 Copy quote

• The music business has let me touch a lot of people with my talent.

  Britney Spears

  People, Talent, Let Me

  7 Copy quote

• I'm a good listener, you know. My gran used to say that's why you've got two ears and one mouth. I just truly love what I do and treat it with a lot of respect and all these relationships in the music business that people talk about.

  Johnny Reid

  Two, People, Ears

  "Johnny Reid headlining Fredericton's Maritime Countryfest". "Information Morning Fredericton" with Terry Seguin, www.cbc.ca. June 20, 2015.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Since I have spent many years of my life living in Los Angeles, and since I'm also in the music business, I know that much more is talked about in Los Angeles than ever really occurs.

  Frederick Lenz

  Years, Rama, Los Angeles

  4 Copy quote

• The bigtime for you is just around the corner. They told me that first in 1952 - boy, its been a long corner. If I dont hit the bigtime in the next 25 or 30 years, Im gonna pack in the music business and become a full-time gigolo.

  Ronnie Hawkins

  Boys, Years, Long

  85 Copy quote

• I'm into indie music. I think indie is going to bring back the spirit in music. There was a time when it was all about accommodating the music business, the music was getting tasteless, but the spirit is back.

  Yoko Ono

  Thinking, Spirit, Indie Music

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. February 12, 2007.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the music business I am surrounded by people who don't view music as a sacred voice. They view music as something that they can use and exploit, often times lazily. They have no sense of the tradition, they have no sense of honor about those who came before and charted the path.

  Billy Corgan

  Views, Voice, People

  "A Conversation with Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins". Interview with Sharon London, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm still as fascinated with the music business as ever. I'd love to do an electronic album like Prodigy or Underworld. I really like that sort of music.

  Elton John

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The music business will be revitalized by musicians, not the labels or Live Nation. When the musicians decide to put music first, instead of money, the public will flock to the fruits and the scene will be healthy again.

  Bob Lefsetz

  Healthy, Musician, Labels

  8 Copy quote