Music Industry Quotes - Page 2

• I would never get into the music industry per se, but listening to music really helps me to concentrate. It's just a nice way for me to vibe and chill. There's music for when you're sad or happy or in love; there's music for every moment in life.

  Haley Pullos

  Nice, Listening, Way

  "Haley Pullos Interview: Maranda Pleasant". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.

  Richard Branson

  Success, Business, Real

  Richard Branson (2005). “Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography”, Virgin Pub

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• I think after a few years and working on so many projects, you don't get jaded but the level of your expectations is minimal, especially the way the music industry is today.

  Marco Mendoza

  Thinking, Years, Expectations

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• Sometimes people can get shitty, but you won't last in music industry by taking things personally.

  Nick Murphy

  People, Sometimes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The music industry doesn't exist the way it used to. You'll never have another star like the stars of the '90s.

  Mika

  Stars, Way, Used

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've worked with many powerful men in the music industry.

  Tori Amos

  Powerful, Men, Powerful Man

  "What I know about men". Article by Tori Amos, www.theguardian.com. July 05, 2009.

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• I think it's important to do things that you're interested in. I think it's important to have other outlets away from the music industry.

  Jason Aldean

  Thinking, Important, Outlets

  "Jason Aldean: At my show, 'you're going to have a good time'". Interview with Jacque Wilson, www.cnn.com. May 22, 2012.

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• Moving to London was a culture shock, but in a really good way. I'm more aware now, and I'm less trusting of people in the music industry.

  Nina Nesbitt

  Moving, People, London

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You have to think outside the box. The world is changing every day, the music industry is so different but I think the more creative you are the better.

  Orianthi

  Thinking, Creative, Different

  Source: www.lasplash.com

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• What I like about being independent [in the music industry] is that anybody who does play the album on the radio and anybody who does choose to write in the media does so because they want to, because they like it or because they find something interesting there, not because they have to.

  Ani DiFranco

  Writing, Independent, Media

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• I applied for three jobs in record companies and was offered all of them. I took the most glamorous-sounding job in the promotions department and it began my love affair with the music industry.

  Nicki Chapman

  Jobs, Three, Records

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• While waiting for my visa, I got a job in the music industry, which was so exciting, it changed my life and stopped me moving.

  Nicki Chapman

  Jobs, Moving, Waiting

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening to more music than ever and from a greater diversity of artists.

  Daniel Ek

  Artist, People, Diversity

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• There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.

  Daniel Ek

  Artist, Creating, People

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• I still don't understand the music industry that much. Everything I learned was from hanging out with rock musicians in studios. I certainly have respect for those who make music their livelihood.

  Brendan Fraser

  Rocks, Musician, Rock Music

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

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• Well, the music industry is littered with actors who belatedly came to singing.

  Jeff Daniels

  Singing, Actors, Wells

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. November 9, 2010.

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• Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.

  Dan Farmer

  Availability, People, Complaining

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• I love getting into a studio with a bunch of friends. When the day's done, we've made something. We recognize that we're from different walks of the music industry, and there's no reason we shouldn't be collaborating. That's what I'm trying to create with thenewno2 - a sense of community.

  Dhani Harrison

  Community, Trying, Different

  "Dhani Harrison Honors Father George, Faces Fear of Missing Out" by Scott Thill, www.wired.com. September 28, 2011.

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• The only thing that I really want to do is just be respected in the music industry... And whether that means selling albums or winning Grammys or people just liking your music, thats what I really want to do.

  Kris Allen

  Mean, Winning, People

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• The X Factor' is great entertainment, but it doesn't prepare people for getting chewed up and spat out by the music industry.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  People, Entertainment, Spats

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• I dedicated almost 12 years to the music industry before having children.

  Monica Denise Brown

  Children, Years, Dedicated

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• It doesn't necessarily always come down to race in the music industry. It can be whoever has the most money, has the most power, and that's really the struggle - dealing with how crazy money is.

  Jillian Hervey

  Crazy, Struggle, Race

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• My mom has kind of been more of the emotional support system. One time I was really feeling all out of it, just dealing with a lot of cooks in the kitchen and adjusting to what it means to be in the music industry, and I called her. One of the first things she said to me was 'You have to be thankful that these people even like you, no one liked me, at all, I was not really accepted for a very long time.'

  Jillian Hervey

  Mom, Mean, Emotional

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• The music industry has changed drastically and that damages young artists. They don't have the same support system that we had. They wanted us to be happy. Today I would have been dropped after the first flop.

  Cliff Richard

  Artist, Support Systems, Today

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• For each of my novels, I've had something of a eureka moment of deciding what world I want to set it in - Wall Street, the pop-music industry, Harvard - and what the very vague contours of the narrative might be (which typically get changed a lot through the writing process).

  Teddy Wayne

  Wall, Writing, World

  "'My narrator is starving, both literally and metaphorically': Teddy Wayne and Alexandra Kleeman on anxiety and alienation in their new books". www.salon.com. September 13, 2016.

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