Music Business Quotes - Page 5

• I definitely want my career to continue to branch out. I've had the pleasure of working in different areas of entertainment, from being in the music business as a teenager in a girl group to doing Broadway.

  Naturi Naughton

  Girl, Teenager, Careers

  Source: collider.com

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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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• 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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• Retire for what? What would I do? I made my name as a person that is helping. I'm like Moses in the music business.

  James Brown

  Names, Helping, Moses

  "James Brown Gets Funky in Shanghai", www.foxnews.com. February 22, 2006.

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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 I was 17 years old, I was in the music business.

  Scott Caan

  Years

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

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• There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.

  Adam Duritz

  People, Creative, Process

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• Miley Cyrus, like all of us, needs to be loved. We all come from complicated parents I understand her, and I love her, and I think things will be different with her. But you know, in the music business, sometimes you have to shock a little.

  Richard Simmons

  Thinking, Parent, Different

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Mentor, Gone, Lifelong

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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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• 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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• I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.

  Nat King Cole

  Purpose, Making Money

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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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• I don't want to be a flash in the pan. I want to be around for a very long time. I want to be like a Sheryl Crow or a Melissa Etheridge or even a Madonna with how her career has lasted so long and she is still respected in the music business. That's really what I am aiming for. I'm not really looking for 15 minutes of fame.

  Cheyenne Kimball

  Careers, Long, Crow

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I'd say we [Apple Inc.] are the most creative of the technology companies and definitely the most artist-friendly. Almost everyone in the music business uses a Mac and everyone has an iPod.

  Steve Jobs

  Artist, Technology, Apples

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I attended a post-college program in L.A. for Music Business and Production. Took several courses involving Music Production, Arrangement, and Songwriting.

  Adam Kluger

  College, Program, Songwriting

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• Somebody asked me the question not too long ago: 'Dave, do you think the music business has turned corrupt.' I said: 'Absolutely not - it has always been corrupt.'

  David Lee Roth

  Thinking, Long Ago, Dave

  "Roth 'N' Roll: Flashy - But David's A Shrewd Businessman". Brett Thomas, The Sun-Herald (Section: News and Features), October 16, 1988.

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• One of the best things about Kickstarter and crowdfunding and the collapse of the music business is a lot of artists like me have been forced to face our own weird mess about ourselves and what we thought it meant to become musicians.

  Amanda Palmer

  Artist, Musician, Faces

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

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• Time and persistence has shown me that I can succeed at sharing my art with others as a musician while running my own music business. And that kind of success is as good as I could have ever wished for.

  Bradley Joseph

  Running, Art, Persistence

  "New Faces of Jazz: Bradley Joseph" by Ned Radinsky and Cicily Janus,

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• But the music business is no more about truth on the outside of the Christian ghetto than it is on the inside.

  Mark Heard

  Christian, Ghetto

  "A Musician's Diary". Essay by Mark Heard. "Bearing the Mystery: Twenty Years of IMAGE". Book by Gregory Wolfe, 2009.

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• In 1989 I sort of got back into the music business and one of the reasons I got back in is [that] I put the first All Stars band together. It's actually progressed from that every other year, or every two years, I've put that together...more and more realizing that's what I do.

  Ringo Starr

  Stars, Years, Two

  Source: alltheseletters.com

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• Writing is not work. In fact, theres nothing better. Writing is something that if the music business went completely away tomorrow - radio stations quit existing and music quit being popular and it was old hat - I would still write songs.

  Toby Keith

  Song, Writing, Radio

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• Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time.

  Linda Barnes

  Singers, Comes And Goes

  Linda Barnes (2015). “Steel Guitar”, p.4, Open Road Media

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• When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I dont know what to say, really.

  Vince Clarke

  Past, Thinking, Finding Yourself

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