Music Business Quotes - Page 8

• [Commercial radio] is owned by one or two corporations now, and they're not in the music business. They're in the advertising business.... So let's not kid ourselves. If you want to hear music, go buy a guitar.

  Elvis Costello

  Kids, Guitar, Two

  "Elvis Costello plays with words and praises" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. July 17, 2002.

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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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• Getting back to the point, a guy like Jerry, he deals with the business, and he doesn't see it as being evil or ugly, it's what you have to do, and I mean I know there's some really ugly parts to it and parts which drive me nuts, but not in the same way as music business.

  Trevor Rabin

  Mean, Nuts, Evil

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• The music business is very hard on women over 22. You really have to prove yourself every time you make a record. Are you as vibrant as you used to be? Are you as sexy? So I really want to prove that a woman in her 30s can be all those things and more.

  Jody Watley

  Sexy, Business, Records

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• The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music.

  Bobby Vinton

  Business, Fading Away, Different

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• I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you.

  Tom Verlaine

  Business, Thinking, Way To Live

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• It was my first big relationship and it was just very abusive. I wouldn't give him the credit of naming him, if he ever reads this. But he was older, in the music business - or so he said.

  Lisa Snowdon

  Relationship, Giving, Credit

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• The music business can be very cold. And it doesn't honor its elders.

  Brenda Lee

  Honor, Cold, Elders

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• I'd fired anyone who was involved with Creed. I didn't want anything to do with the music business. The entire press and industry hated me, so what was the point?

  Scott Stapp

  Want, Creeds, Hated

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• I don't relate to what's left of the music business. There doesn't seem to be any point to it anymore. The business that I grew up in and loved, we made records a different way - there were record companies, there were stores where you could buy albums.

  Don McLean

  Different, Albums, Records

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