Music Business Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• Nothing will prepare you for singing the truth like about 35 years in the music business, financial troubles and a couple trips to jail, ... It will get you really humble and really truthful, and gets you ready to sing out about who and what saved you.

  Marty Stuart

  Couple, Humble, Jail

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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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• The one constant in this ever changing music business is the heartfelt and “ear to the ground” Indie Record Stores that avid music fans and artists alike know they can count on to keep music thriving locally. I tour all over the world, and it's these Indie Record Stores that many times make or break a market. People will always want an “album” to hold, not just have downloaded, and Indies fill that need and then some.

  Dale Watson

  Heart, Artist, Avid

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• Since the traditional recorded-music business models have drastically changed, there is truly diminished income derived from recorded music by artists - both current and catalog. The touring industry has become much more important as a majority revenue stream and the ancillary fan experiences and promotions that may be derived from it.

  Irving Azoff

  Artist, Important, Income

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• I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have.

  Ginger Baker

  Great Love

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• The music business is really a spiritual business whether we know it or not.

  Kurtis Blow

  Spiritual, Knows

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