Music business is not for everyone. But if you have it in you, you have that passion, if you have that energy in you that you really want to make something creative and make something that's going to impact the world, then go for it, do it and don't let anybody tell you no.
The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.
The music business is strictly business.
I wish there had been a music business 101 course I could have taken.
Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works.
Music and the music business are two different things.
The whole music business in the United States is based on numbers, based on unit sales and not on quality. It's not based on beauty, it's based on hype and it's based on cocaine. It's based on giving presents of large packages of dollars to play records on the air.
Independent labels take nothing and make something out of it. Major labels buy that something, and try to make more out of it.
Independent artists and labels have always been the trendsetters in music and the music business.
My advice to anyone wanting to get into the music business, is always be ready to learn and remain humble.
The people who come out on top in music business have persistence. It is key! Fall down seven times; stand up eight. It takes a lot of courage and an unwavering belief in yourself and your abilities.
Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear.
We live in an age of music for people who don't like music. The record industry discovered some time ago that there aren't that many people who actually like music. For a lot of people, music's annoying, or at the very least they don't need it. They discovered if they could sell music to a lot of those people, they could sell a lot more records.
People don't buy plastic and paper, they buy emotions.
We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.
I’ve done well, I’ve been disappointed, and I think it all goes back to you. Of course the labels are going to be the labels. It’s the music business. You are a business. That’s what they do. So you’ve got to protect yourself.
I got into the music business thinking it was really radical, that it wasn't really a business at all, that it was a lot of people being artistic and creative. Not true, and it made me very depressed.
The music business is not a good place for people who don't know things.
Money had never been the main thing for me. It's the legacy that was important.
The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed: the major record labels let Apple take over the digital-music business; Blockbuster refused to buy Netflix for a mere fifty million dollars; Excite turned down the chance to acquire Google for less than a million dollars.
It's magazines like HITS that have to label things.
I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate.
Going to radio with a rap record prior to going to the consumer is like having no foreplay with your girlfriend.
American music is something the rest of the world wants to listen to. Our job is to make sure they pay for it.
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