Top 1200 Music Business Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

Who would want to break into [the music business]? It's like a bank that's already been robbed.

There are just two questions to ask to attain success in business: First, "What business am I in?" Second, "How's business?"

Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.

It is a business. I know we, as athletes and owners and people involved with the NBA, never want to say that it's a business and things like that. It is a business.

I've always studied business. Even when I was a ball player, I'd read business journals and the business sections of newspapers.

I decided I couldn't ever again deal with the megabusiness end of the music business.

Everybody knows in the business how I feel about country music. I'm an old traditionalist. Then they just call me an old man and stuck in my old ways, but with all the fans I've got out there, I can't be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.

I hate the pigeonholing that's happened in the music business in the last 30 years.

If you are going to survive in business, show business or any business, then you have to be bold.

This industry is a business - I'm a business myself, and I want to be able to run my own business.

I wish there had been a music business 101 course I could have taken.

It's a small percentile of people who see one dime out of the music business.

There's a lot to live up to when three of your parents are successful in the music business.

Retire for what? What would I do? I made my name as a person that is helping. I'm like Moses in the music business.

No matter what business you're in, business is business, and financing and money are critical. I would have made a lot fewer mistakes if I had more schooling in that area.

However, music and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

In the music business, there's a lot of criticism and rejection. If you embrace it, you'll be better off when the adjustment comes.

Yes, I love the movie business. In fact, there's no business like show business.

The music industry is a vicious business. It chews women up and spits them out.

Things can turn ugly so quickly in the music business, especially if you have an unexpected success.

Business purpose and business mission are so rarely given adequate thought is perhaps the most important cause of business frustration and failure.

I think it's a reflection of the music business in general, which to me seems very fragmented.

My entry level has always been pretty high in the music business.

I think the reason I got into the music business was basically for the live aspect of it.

I never had my mind set on being an entertainer in the music business.

Since the traditional recorded-music business models have drastically changed, there is truly diminished income derived from recorded music by artists - both current and catalog. The touring industry has become much more important as a majority revenue stream and the ancillary fan experiences and promotions that may be derived from it.

I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice' was a business book. I'm very surprised and gratified that the business world thought it was one.

If you want to make money in music, get into the band uniform business.

Our goal is to continue to be a global consolidator of the live music business.

You can't ever really replace Jon Anderson because he's been such a force in the music business.

The Philadelphia/New York world of the music business is a tough place to be.

I don't think music is my job - I don't think about it that way, because I don't really get paid. There's not paycheck at the end; it's more of a "whatever is left over" kind of situation. Also, it keeps me from thinking about my creativity as a business, which it is not. It should remain pure; that's one of the reasons I made music in the first place.

I owe Elvis my career, and the entire music business owes him it's lifeline.

I personally, only work with people in my business who show excellence. I have a business, the business of enlightenment.

The business has changed dramatically from what it was even just a few years ago. Music isn't even distributed the same way anymore. Even CDs are becoming a thing of the past. The Internet has made it easier to get my music out to anyone who wants it, but at the same time, I feel like we're losing the mystique.

It will be only a matter of time before the music business establishment completely folds.

I'm just trying to survive and stay relevant! That's all anyone in the music business can ask for.

The music business, or what`s left of it, is obviously a very - it`s like a wild west now.

For a long time, the film business was a single-digit business on investment return. Now, because of home video, it's a low double-digit business, and the studios want to make sure it doesn't go back into the single-digit business.

I think it's fair to say we're both in the business of self-obliteration through music.

Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.

The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.

It's a weird business, whether you're trying to write or act or do music. You're put in these situations you're not prepared for.

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.

There's nothing that can prepare you for fame and for the music business at any point in history.

The best decision I ever made, period, was to get into the music business.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10 percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.

You know, my goal, once I leave the music business, is like, 'Man, Lupe didn't lead us astray.' It comes directly from Islam: leading people astray is the worst thing you could do. Especially in perpetuity; like, your music continues to go on and live without you. That risk is too great for me; I'm gonna keep it positive.

I see top business schools working to bridge this gap [between academic research and business application] by respecting executive education, by having more mature students who proactively draw from faculty what they know they need, and by having faculty who are willing to leave their ivory towers for the murky world of business reality. Unfortunately, at other times, business professors have little or not interest or savvy about business issues.

I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business.

I only do business with the people I do business with. The people I do business with find out I do business with the people I don't do business with.... I can't do business with you.

I think the music business will eventually crush me, but I [smiles]... I'm ready.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.

In the restaurant business, if you break even, you're lucky. It's a really hard business, it's a survival business.

If I don't make music I'm going back to the hood. I'll sell crack. I'm gonna go back to sell crack if I can't make it in the music business and that's what I was doing before that.

I would say I'm a musician first, actually. I started playing music when I was 10. Then I started designing, went to school, set up a proper business about 10 years ago - our anniversary coming up. But I've played music throughout and still am.

I like the country, the peace and quiet, because the music business is so hectic.

Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.

Mentorship is really important. I really like to talk to people who have been in the music industry much longer than me about artists' block, things I'm struggling with, or the music business. It's really important for artists to have a community. Sometimes you can feel quite isolated.

Growth does not always lead a business to build on success. All too often it converts a highly successful business into a mediocre large business.