Music Industry Quotes - Page 8

• I lived in a cabin in the woods in Oregon, and I'd basically given up on the music industry for an indefinite amount of time. And while I was out there, I came up with a very specific vision of what I wanted my music to sound like.

  Skylar Grey

  Oregon, Vision, Sound

  "Skylar Grey on Her New Album, Eminem's Mystique and Why She Almost Quit Music (Q&A)". Interview with Steve Baltin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 9, 2013.

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• Music TV in the U.K. is disappearing. 'Top Of The Pops,' 'CD:UK' and shows like that have gone, and it's bringing down the music industry. We should do as much as we can to keep our music TV and producers need to be more willing to accommodate live music.

  Leona Lewis

  Cds, Tvs, Needs

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

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• It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music.

  Tom Petty

  Funny Things, People, Way

  "Tom Petty Is Pissed". Rolling Stone interview, October 23, 2002.

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• You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.

  Lance Reddick

  Stars, Artist, Rocks

  "'Wire' and 'Fringe' star makes music, too". Interview with John Carucci, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. January 10, 2011.

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• Starbucks has changed the rules of engagement for the music industry.

  Howard Schultz

  Engagement, Starbucks, Changed

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• There's prejudice everywhere. I don't think the music industry is as bad as the movie industry. But I have taken a few hits over the years for my sexuality, and for being honest about my life. In the end, it's the music that rules the roost.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Taken, Thinking, Years

  "Portrait of the artist: Rufus Wainwright, musician". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2010.

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• The games industry is already bigger than the music industry, and it's mainly directed at teenage boys.

  Thomas Dolby

  Teenage, Boys, Games

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• I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.

  Van Morrison

  Thinking, Rock N Roll, Irish Music

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• And I just pray that god gives me longevity in the music industry.

  Ruben Studdard

  Giving, Praying, Longevity

  "Ruben's debut". Interview with Ann Curry, www.nbcnews.com. January 2, 2004.

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• When you think of Napster, you think of music. But the first thing that struck me was that this was an important case not only for the music industry but for the whole Internet.

  David Boies

  Thinking, Important, Napster

  "David Boies: The Wired Interview". www.wired.com. October 01, 2000.

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• The Internet was a saving grace for promoting and exposing, and even creating. It's a parallel world to the music industry that already exists, and I'm glad to be a part of it.

  Chuck D

  Creating, Grace, World

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. June 13, 2001.

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• A whole generation of veteran composers has never taken a stand or provided an example and has produced in the music academies generations of docile workers for the music industry. What can you expect from downtrodden workers who see music as a type of profession, like stenography, and not an act of creation that by its nature is subversive?

  Itay Talgam

  Taken, Example, Generations

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• If you're frustrated by a music industry that seems too hard to break into, you're not alone. The BIG secret is information...It's not who you know, it's what you know. People who know how to put their music out make money. People who don't know how, have to beg others to help them. It's as simple as that. HipHopBiz.com provides the information people like you have been using since 1992 to release their own music.

  Walt F. J. Goodridge

  Simple, People, Frustrated

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• When people lose their jobs, they can either get another job or be entrepreneurs. In the music industry, a lot of people have attempted the latter by starting their own labels, but in the age of digital downloads, it's very difficult to succeed.

  Judd Apatow

  Jobs, People, Entrepreneur

  Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. December 11, 2012.

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• When I first started out in the music industry and went to Elektra Records, I didn't go to be an artist, I went to get a record label started. And they said in order to have a label deal, I had to be an artist - so that's what I did.

  Missy Elliot

  Artist, Order, Labels

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The sham engineers of the music industry, who steer the wheels of public opinion, are driving the good features of calypso into the ground. I shudder to think what these greedy men will eventually do to this true art form.

  Harry Belafonte

  Art, Men, Thinking

  New Musical Express Magazine, May 1957.

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• Everyone has learned how to monetize music except the music industry.

  Pete Wentz

  Industry

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• I could write all songs all day long about what I think about the music industry or music in general. Sometimes I gotta be like, "Let's write about something else." You don't want to say the same thing over and over again. In a lot of ways, I look at records as a year or two of my life encapsulated in songs. They're almost like journal entries.

  Laura Jane Grace

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  "Tom Gabel of Against Me!". Interview with Jason Heller, music.avclub.com. July 24, 2007.

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• There are a lot of producers and people in the music industry who take credit for the work of others when it's not actually their work. Especially big producers - they have a song that's written by one guy with a produced mix by someone else and then it's sung by someone else.

  Howard Lawrence

  Song, People, Guy

  "Brothers Gonna Work It Out: Disclosure Break Down Every Song on Their New LP". Interview with Matthew Schnipper, pitchfork.com. September 1, 2015.

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• I mistrust these people in music industry who can be everybody. This is where technology dictates to them. I mistrust that, that in somehow the chips capture the soul of a player, that's patent nonsense.

  Elvis Costello

  Technology, Player, People

  Source: tomwaitsfan.com

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• When I was growing up and wanted to be a musician, the fantasy that I had of what the music industry was is so wrong.

  Matty Mullins

  Growing Up, Musician, Fantasy

  Source: www.muenmagazine.net

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• I think the [music] industry really suffered from music being available online because it made young people feel, "why should you pay for music, if it's so readily available for free?"

  Corinne Bailey Rae

  Thinking, People, Pay

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

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• When you win an award from the Grammys, it means a lot 'cause it's voted on by 100% by the people. It's not like some old guy sitting at a desk picking. It's doesn't work like that. It's voted on by your peers in the music industry.

  Paul Wall

  Mean, Winning, Awards

  "Interview: Paul Wall And Chamillionaire Talk Reunion Tour And Moving Beyond The Beef". Interview with Maurice Bobb, www.complex.com. March 24, 2010.

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• The music industry is such a huge machine. There are still a lot of good people in it, but the character of the industry and the culture of the industry is very fast.

  Robyn

  Character, People, Culture

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. February 25, 2008.

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• About 1990 there was a huge shakeup in the music industry and the 6 major record companies fired all the music people and hired business graduates to take over the spots. So the music became not as important. What really became important was the bottom line, how much money you could make.

  Geoff Tate

  People, Important, Lines

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