Music Business Quotes - Page 3

• 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, or what`s left of it, is obviously a very - it`s like a wild west now.

  Lars Ulrich

  West, Wild West, Left

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The only way to get ahead in the music business these days is to call up all your friends. To pool your resources.

  Shelby Lynne

  Way, Pool, Resources

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• For the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it's doom and gloom and you have to spend millions of pounds on marketing and this and that, you have this amazing thing now called fan power. The whole world is linked through a laptop. It's amazing. And it's free. I love it. It's absolutely brilliant.

  Simon Cowell

  Thinking, Doom And Gloom, Marketing

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• Nowadays, with the state of the music business, for any artist, whether you're up-and-coming or you've been in it for awhile, you have to explore different revenues and different ways of expressing yourself.

  Mary J. Blige

  Artist, Different, Way

  "Mary J. Blige Interview THE HELP". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 10, 2011.

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• I think the music business will eventually crush me, but I [smiles]... I'm ready.

  Elliott Smith

  Crush, Thinking, I Smile

  "Strange Parallel". Documentary, 1998.

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• I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.

  Randy Travis

  Song, Writing, Winning

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• I don't live in as much fear as I used to. I'm not afraid of the music business. Life is too damn short. I know what's important, and the tasks are very clear.

  Kathy Mattea

  Life, Umpires, Inspire

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• The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.

  Patrick Stump

  Cliche, Heard, Seems

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

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

  Paul Stanley

  Rocks, Mcdonalds, Billions

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

  Muddy Waters

  Names

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

  Jerry Wexler

  People, Records, Legendary

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

  Rick Rubin

  Feelings, Dimes

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• I wanted to be great. And I loved Nashville, so that made it easy. I loved the music business. It made it easy for me to stay and make a life here.

  Brandy Clark

  Nashville, Easy, Made

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• The music business for me was never about buses and billboards you know, that was never the reason I got into the music business. The reason I wanted to get into the music business was because I genuinely, wholeheartedly love to sing. I love singing songs and telling stories and playing music, so that's why I got into the music business.

  Johnny Reid

  Song, Singing, Playing Music

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

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• There's so many people in the music business or even in general who will tell you that you can't do this or that just because you haven't already had success but I feel like anyone can do anything they put their mind to as long as they stay devoted and stay passionate.

  Jeremy Davis

  Long, People, Mind

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• Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I think the ordinary guy has just as much right to say 'This is a good song' as somebody who is in the music business.

  Kenny G

  Song, Thinking, Guy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

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• I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades.

  Peter Asher

  Different, Roles, Five

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• The internet is a great thing but the worst thing that it brought to the music business was piracy and it's made making stuff available really difficult.

  Scott Ian

  Internet, Worst, Difficult

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I never even went to high school because I went straight from middle school into the music business. I don't really know what it is supposed to be like.

  Cheyenne Kimball

  School, Middle, Supposed To Be

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I'm a binge writer. I work in the music business fulltime, in artist management and developing songwriters and recording artists, and so juggling my job I carve out as much time as I can on the weekends.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Jobs, Artist, Weekend

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• The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn't happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it.

  Ben Folds

  Sometimes, Happens, Components

  Source: collider.com

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