Music Business Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• I have always considered myself a fast learner. I try to retain and absorb as much information and knowledge about the [music] business as I can. I don't want to just sit back and have other people do the hard work for me. I try to be involved in every process of my career as possible. I run my own social media, record, and try to vocal produce myself as much as possible, write my own songs, style myself, and learn the business side. If I didn't do acting or music, I was going to school for business. God has put me on this path and I can honestly say I wake up every day doing what I love.

  Asher Monroe

  Running, Song, School

  Source: www.justjared.com

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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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• This music business can suck all the love out of you, all the compassion for people - you can start to think you're better than them. But I want to continue to let people know that I'm no better and no worse, I'm just like you.

  Mary J. Blige

  Thinking, Compassion, People

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• At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that.

  John Legend

  Stars, People, The End Of The Day

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• In a sense, the music business and I haven't always been the best of bedfellows. Artists often have to fight their corner. Your music goes through these filters of record labels and media, and you're hoping you'll find someone who'll help you get your work into the world.

  Annie Lennox

  Fighting, Artist, Media

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• Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.

  John Lydon

  Example, Fascists, Pops

  "Johnny Rotten Praises Battling Bands, Trashes Internet Liars". Interview With Eliot Van Buskirk, www.wired.com. September 3, 2007.

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• With my quick success, I didn't have time to learn the ropes of the music business. Because my first record was such a hit, I was terribly spoiled and I thought I couldn't do anything wrong. I was also desperate to make tons of money because of my responsibility to my daughter. And there was no longer any joy in making music.

  Phoebe Snow

  Daughter, Mother, Responsibility

  "Phoebe Snow obituary" by Adam Sweeting, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2011.

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• The music business was not safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you know is bad for you, but you love every minute with her, anyway.

  Lionel Richie

  Love, Music, Fun

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• When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

  Larry Mullen, Jr.

  Attachment, Very Deep

  "Larry Mullen Jr: The Man on the Train". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

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• I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple. I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it...Music is spiritual. The music business is not. Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

  Van Morrison

  Spiritual, Song, Jobs

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• You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it...I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it. That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say. ... I don't like overdubs, never liked them. ... The music business doesn't interest me anymore...Don't the people you're around shape the music, is that what you're saying? Everything does. ... I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.

  Lou Reed

  Believe, Play, People

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• My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't.

  Simon Cowell

  Careers, Advice, Would Be

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• The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified.

  Jeremy Renner

  Song, Expression, Play

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

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• Being in the music business is a totally different industry right there.

  Christina Milian

  Different, Industry

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• I have major respect for Kenny Chesney and Carrie Underwood and Sugarland. They are wonderful. They're superstars in the music business.

  Darius Rucker

  Superstar, Wonderful, Kenny

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

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• I had business experience. I had made my living designing and building electronic equipment. Basic business was not new to me, but the music business was completely new to me. I knew nothing about distribution, or any of those things.

  Greg Ginn

  Design, Building, Made

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• It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting.

  Matthew Sweet

  Mind Your Own Business, Curious, Songwriting

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• There is no telling what is going to happen in the music business in the next few years, hours, minutes, seconds. Giving artists the chance to produce and distribute their own material is great, very empowering. The technological changes that are happening so rapidly now, amongst all the opinions, are in truth, only two things, inevitable and unstoppable.

  Pauley Perrette

  Artist, Years, Technological Change

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• You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

  Barry McGuire

  Numbers, Down And, Rhyming

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• I think it's a reflection of the music business in general, which to me seems very fragmented.

  Kathy Valentine

  Valentines Day, Business, Reflection

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• I may quit the music business someday, but never the music.

  Dan Fogelberg

  May, Quitting, Someday

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• Who would want to break into [the music business]? It's like a bank that's already been robbed.

  Randy Newman

  Want, Break

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