Music Industry Quotes - Page 4

• L.A. to me feels like music industry, and Nashville to me feels like music community.

  Sheryl Crow

  Nashville, Community, Feels

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• The fact that people still know us is, in my opinion, a result of our music and of the big money that runs the music industry today. The people who control the industry are accountants who recycle everything in new, nostalgic packages, and everything else, to make more money.

  Rick Wright

  Running, Money, People

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• Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs.

  Kara DioGuardi

  Song, Artist, Backbone

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• The music industry is not what it used to be. Being in a good band is great, and I've been lucky to be in great bands. I've done solo stuff, and that's been great. I also produce rock bands and I do co-writes, where I write with different singers in bands and songwriters.

  James Iha

  Writing, Rocks, Band

  "James Iha on Scoring James Franco’s ‘Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?’". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 17, 2016.

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• [Performing artists] are making greater percentages. People are going to live events more and it's a big success story for everyone - except the music industry itself.

  Russell Simmons

  Artist, People, Events

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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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• 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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• In the music industry, you are in competition with everyone.

  Mandy Moore

  Competition, Industry

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• I think the thing you're seeing now with the music industry is that the people who have tight-knit communities are now able to really hold each other up because of the internet tools. And the really top-down pyramid scheme of major labels and typical superstars isn't sustainable anymore because the system has collapsed.

  Amanda Palmer

  Thinking, Top Down, Pyramid Schemes

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I've never been in the music industry, only acting.

  Victoria Jackson

  Acting, Industry

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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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• 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 actually think that bass is probably the instrument that has evolved in a quantum leap compared to other instruments. It's the instrument that's evolved the most, especially with how it's perceived. And even how it's played, and how it's viewed from a point of view of commerce, like with the music industry.

  Stanley Clarke

  Thinking, Views, Bass

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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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• 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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• We were working in entertainment, in the music industry, with popular music, it was important, but it was something that we also felt was a responsibility.

  Stephen Mallinder

  Responsibility, Important, Entertainment

  Source: www.artdesigncafe.com

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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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• 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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• If you look at the market cap increase in Apple since it created the iPod versus what's happened to the music industry, you have to say Apple got the better part of that deal.

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

  Apples, Ipods, Looks

  "Warner Music Group CEO: Steve Jobs Got the Best of Us" by Paul Bond, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 31, 2012.

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• I feel pretty used by the music industry, in that my contracts are written in such a way that I don't get paid. And that makes me wanna quit working for whoever thinks it is that I work for them. But I've clearly got a job that I can't quit.

  Jamey Johnson

  Jobs, Thinking, Way

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• My experience in the music industry made me very thick-skinned. Your art is something very personal and there's never a shortage of critics when it comes to art.

  Romany Malco

  Art, Made, Critics

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• Roc Nation is such an incredible, unique team, especially in the music industry. Everyone genuinely loves and cares about each other.

  Rita Ora

  Team, Unique, Care

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

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• I'm proud of my roots. There are not many Asians in the music industry so it's important for me to tell people where I'm from.

  Coco Lee

  Roots, People, Important

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