Music Business Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• The music business is suffering because fewer artists are being invested in. Labels are putting in less money, taking fewer risks and signing half as many artists as they did 10 years ago. Everything is risk averse right now and there are two ways to deal with a business situation like this: either reduce your risk or increase your return. They're reducing their risk to the bone and looking for ways with their 360 deals to increase their return. They're still not making money. Artists are suffering. Labels, or music investors, are suffering.

  Tom Silverman

  Artist, Risk, Suffering

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I think I've always felt as a band and as a musician and a music business person, I've always felt like an outsider, period.

  Amanda Palmer

  Thinking, Musician, Band

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I hate the pigeonholing that's happened in the music business in the last 30 years.

  Brian McKnight

  Hate, Years, Lasts

  "5 questions for Brian McKnight". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.houstonchronicle.com. August 16, 2016.

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• I'm excited about being able to write and produce songs from an executive standpoint as well as the business side of it and the political side of it. I'm working on angles when it comes to the music business because I feel like that's the only way you can become a mogul.

  Rico Love

  Song, Writing, Political

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• Punishing people for listening to music is exactly the wrong way to protect the music business.

  Moby

  People, Listening, Way

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• I feel like once the song is done, you put it out there and if people want to do bizarre remixes, if people want to make strange videos, great. You know, like chaos theory applied to the music business.

  Moby

  Song, People, Video

  "Video exclusive: Moby's 'mistake' tells a tale of flotsam love" by Frank Rose, www.wired.com. September 14, 2009.

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• That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.

  Steven Morrissey

  Communication, People, Inconvenience

  "The Importance of Being Morrissey". Documentary, Biography, Music, 2003.

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• Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.

  John Oates

  Swimming, Things To Do, Hard

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• I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there.

  Yoko Ono

  Thinking, Differences, Bigs

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. February 12, 2007.

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• I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.

  Elvis Presley

  Trends, Happened

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• The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Style, Made, Resources

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• The music business doesn't interest me anymore.

  Lou Reed

  Interest

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• You can do any number of things in the music business aside from trying to look like you're 25. To me it's embarrassing.

  Grace Slick

  Numbers, Trying, Looks

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• I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.

  Patti Smith

  Flawed, Appease

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• I suppose that by being absent from the music business, it appeared that I just dropped out, but really I never did. I was continuously working and doing various things.

  Cat Stevens

  Absent, Various

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• You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.

  Rod Stewart

  Posing, Ifs

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• In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It's not so competitive.

  Barbra Streisand

  Song, Writing, People

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• I'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn't like music. They didn't trust musicians. They wanted something else from it.

  James Taylor

  People, Going Away, Lasts

  "I used to check my bumpers for blood" by Paul Sexton, www.theguardian.com. December 20, 2007.

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• Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business.

  Ville Valo

  New York, Business, Los Angeles

  "HIM". Interview with Erin Broadley, www.suicidegirls.com. October 12, 2004.

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• In the music business, to survive for so long, you have to be able to cut off from your emotions sometimes. And being a father, you're faced with that situation. I know that my father was, with me. I understand why he had to be distant, because to rip yourself away, time after time, is almost more devastating.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Father, Rip, Cutting

  "Rufus Wainwright: 'I've tried to be vegetarian but I keep falling off the horse and, like, eating it'" by Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2012.

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• By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.

  Lawrence Welk

  Business, Years, People

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• Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.

  Neil Young

  Business, Commitment, Annoyed

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• It is a tough city to live in (Detroit) but a great city to be around. There is so much promise. There just needs to be a movement to help push the city beyond the automobile industry. The music business needs to learn how to support itself.

  MC Serch

  Cities, Support, Promise

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• I am definitely less and less interested in music made by people that exist today, people that are living. I just see them as part of the whole stupid process of the music business, desperate (even if they feign indifference) to get noticed, trying to "make it" in the stinking music business, to become "famous" etc, and it disgusts me.

  Michael Gira

  Stupid, People, Trying

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