Music Business Quotes - Page 5

• I was 13 and my mom was a librarian so I told her to check out every music book she could possibly find. I wanted to know the business part of being in the music business.

  Juicy J

  Mom, Book, Librarian

  Source: www.deathandtaxesmag.com

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• I'm just trying to survive and stay relevant! That's all anyone in the music business can ask for.

  Christopher Tin

  Trying, Relevant, Asks

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• You just plant a few seeds, cultivate the shoots, and watch your career grow and branch out. It takes time and dedication. There are no overnight success stories in the music business!

  Christopher Tin

  Dedication, Careers, Watches

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• When you are a journalist in the music business, as I was, you end up dying or going to the gym - I chose the gym.

  Tony Parsons

  Dying, Ends, Journalist

  "What I see in the mirror" by Tony Parsons, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2010.

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• I'm definitely an anomaly, but I'm making things. They're selling, say, martinis, and I'm kind of making vintage Riesling. People aren't going to sit there very often, not your average public, and your average music-business monster is not going to take the time to notice the overtones and the undertones inside the flavor. They'd rather just have the martini.

  Ben Folds

  Average, Vintage, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate. I thought, that's interesting, because I believe a total unwillingness to cooperate is what is necessary to be an artist — not for perverse reasons, but to protect your vision. The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music. That's why I spend my time now painting.

  Joni Mitchell

  Art, Believe, People

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• There are peaks and valleys in anything and that is especially true for the music business. It is very inconsistent. But if you are wise, you can let those downs really bring you to another level of your personality.

  Bryan White

  Wise, Business, Personality

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• Forget about surviving 40 years in the music business. Just surviving 27 years of Nicole Richie has been a struggle-and-a-half, I want to tell you. I stand here as a survivor, I want you to know, for all the parents out there.

  Lionel Richie

  Struggle, Years, Parent

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• If I wanted to fight to make a better world racially, I wouldn't be in the music business. You dig, if I were going to be a freedom fighter music is the wrong field.

  Chaka Khan

  Fighting, World, Fields

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.

  Jackson Browne

  Song, Writing, Play

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• The people on the business side in the music business are kind of different from the theatre business. I think it's partly because there are different pressures on the industries.

  Tim Curry

  Thinking, People, Theatre

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• You can't be in the music business as long as "Steve and Edie" have, if you stink.

  Steve Lawrence

  Music, Long, Stink

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• Blacks own so little of the music business, it's pathetic. But I see that changing soon. Black artists, black businessmen and women will unite.

  Barry White

  Artist, Black, Littles

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• I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound and knowing the music business the way I do - all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.

  Barry White

  Business, Careers, Knowing

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

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• I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody.

  Glenn Frey

  Artist, Thinking, People

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• There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between record labels, publishing companies and artists [about the compensation they get from streaming services] Spotify is returning a HUGE amount of money [to the record labels]. If we continue growing at our current rate in terms of subscriptions and downloads, we'll overtake iTunes in terms of contributions to the recorded music business in under two years.

  Sean Parker

  Artist, Years, Two

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• The music business used to carry a certain amount of brotherly love, but it isn't that way now.

  Jimmy Rushing

  Way, Brotherly Love, Used

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• The most important thing is that you make sure you follow the music, which is a musician's way of saying follow your heart. The two things are intertwined. You know, when you even mention the phrase "music business," the older you get, the sourer it sounds. It's a terrible business, you know. Music and business have nothing to do with each other; there's no correlation, so it's always a rub. I would encourage people, don't be swayed by the music business. If you're truly, in your heart, a musician, stay one, and let the business find you.

  Robben Ford

  Heart, Two, People

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• Five years after I started CD Baby, when it was a big success, the media said I had revolutionized the music business. But 'revolution' is a term that people use only when you're successful. Before that, you're just a quirky person who does things differently.

  Derek Sivers

  Baby, Successful, Media

  Derek Sivers (2015). “Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur”, p.14, Penguin

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• I've always just adored music. It's my first love, really. I admire and respect people in the music business. You really have to work hard and diligently. Sometimes actors can be lazy and get away with it, but you can't do that if you're a musician.

  Blythe Danner

  Hard Work, First Love, People

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• Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.

  Taylor Hackford

  Important, Important Things

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

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• I think the Grammys are nothing more than some gigantic promotional machine for the music industry. They cater to a low intellect and they feed the masses. They don't honor the arts or the artist for what he created. It's the music business celebrating itself.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Art, Thinking, Honor

  "Tool at the Grammys". www.indiewire.com. February 11, 2008.

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• You know how it is with drawers and labels in the music business. They don't want anything to be complicated. They just want it simple, as simple as possible.

  Mark McGrath

  Simple, Labels, Want

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• I used to go with him and I'd sometimes play, take over from him. That was my first taste of the music business, I suppose, but I was also in the youth orchestra at Johnston Grammar.

  Trevor Horn

  Play, Horny, Orchestra

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• Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.

  Jackson Browne

  Two, People, Mind Your Own Business

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