Music Business Quotes - Page 14

• Before the whole [music] business was calibrated around the selling of records. I never could have imagined that live performance would become kind of a vortex of the business. It's such a seismic shift really.

  Arthur Fogel

  Vortex, Records, Kind

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• I think the music business is changing. Artists that don't want to tour and just want to collect royalty checks and stay home are not going to be able to do that.

  Steve Earle

  Home, Artist, Thinking

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. August 18, 2004.

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• I had no idea that I could sustain a career as an artist. But, I loved music and wanted to be in the music business.

  Ray Stevens

  Artist, Careers, Ideas

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• 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

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• Commercial to the core, Elvis was the kind of singer dear to the heart of the music business. For him to sing a song was to sell asong. His G clef was a dollar sign.

  Albert Goldman

  Song, Heart, Dollars

  Albert Goldman (1981). “Elvis”, McGraw-Hill

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