Top 1200 Music Business Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

You're a musician and you live and die by people responding to your music. It's a business just like anything else and if people don't like your music, that's kind of your problem.

You can't be in the music business as long as "Steve and Edie" have, if you stink.

We're not going to change the world or the music business.

The music business and I were made for each other.

You have a history of art-music that you equate with music. That's what I love about that term art-music. It separates itself from music-music, the music people have always made.

My future definitely lies in the music business.

I found that so many people in the music business started out as metalheads in the Eighties - whether they're songwriters, producers, engineers or executives, and no matter what they look like, with short hair, suits or whatever. I feel like my generation of metal kids really tends to populate the music world to a large extent.

Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music.

Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

I think Sean Parker damaged the music business with Napster.

The landscape of the music business has changed and I definitely have to take advantage of that.

The music business doesn't interest me anymore.

In the music business, if you're not a fighter, you will get walked all over.

I am involved in the creation of software, and I'm also in the music business.

The music is fun and all that, but first and foremost it is a business, it's about money.

I'm a business first and foremost so whatever my business is, it's separate from my personal. It's like whatever I do business wise, it's done in the business fashion whether it's promoting , marketing, whatever I'm doing.

The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer.

I never got into this business to do interviews. It was always about the music.

The reason I grew so fast in the supermarket business, without help of the banks in those days, was through my vendors. I convinced my vendors, the companies I was doing business with, if I did more business, they would do more business.

By the time 1997 had rolled around, I had been in the music business for all my life, from the age of 15. I started recording professionally when I was 18. I had seen how record companies work, how the business works, and truth be told, I was pretty disgusted by everything by that time.

My music is music that Christians and Catholics can listen to. Muslims. Buddhists. And non-religious people as well. It's just music. You can look at the music in several different ways. It's music for everybody.

G.O.O.D. Music is on top because G.O.O.D. Music is the culture. When you think of, you know, just every aspect from music, influence, fashion, art level. If it's not G.O.O.D Music, then it's somebody who was influenced heavily by G.O.O.D. Music.

I have always abhorred the business end of music.

Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do.

If business has my mind, music has my heart and soul.

I got very bored with the music business.

When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified.

Long ago I added to the true old adage of "What is everybody's business is nobody's business," another clause which, I think, morethan any other principle has served to influence my actions in life. That is, What is nobody's business is my business.

In business, integrity is just as important as in any of the great public offices... but I believe one of the first and fundamental obligations of competent business leadership is above all to protect the reputation and integrity of the business - to that degree the integrity of the business is the integrity of the leader.

I accept that appearance is a big thing in this business. But being around Hollywood and having actor friends and doing music videos, it does make you more aware of how you look. With music videos they send you rough cuts, and in certain frames of me, I just see a nose advert.

The truth is that the music business is mean and honest and brutal.

If you think the music business is the be-all and end-all of life, you're in big trouble.

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

When I went to City of Bath College, I studied the music business.

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.

The music business, a lot of times, has a big finesse mentality to it.

I've seen the highs and lows not just of the music business but of life.

I hope that I am out of the music business when I meet God.

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

Being in the music business is a totally different industry right there.

Now bands have to sing live, now people watch who sings on the record, now people want to hear the real music and not just plastic bands anymore. So I think we changed the music business to a better, more honest way.

You come up, you love music, and then business interferes.

When I was 17 years old, I was in the music business.

Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do

We came from a small village and there is no music business there.

I love the music business, but I have no ambition to keep on playing.

We want to make music, and we won't become jaded by the business aspect of what we do.

The music business has let me touch a lot of people with my talent.

For me, a lot of my fondest memories of being in the music business were being in the studio with The Doobs and being part of that organization and being a part of that music.

My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't.

The music business is not a good place for people who don't know things.

I know how hard it is to make it in the music business.

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

I write other people songs. Recirculate it. It's the music business.

I love the music business very much.

The journey of making money in music has changed a great deal and is now based on merchandising and just being very smart in the business. Downloading from iTunes has become the way to purchase music and the price that you pay there for a song cannot compare to the days when people paid money for records.

I think the music business is as crass and as unrewarding as it has ever been.

The music business can be very cold. And it doesn't honor its elders.

Music is the outlet to bigger and better business; that's what I'm excited about.