Music Business Quotes - Page 8

• The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music.

  Bobby Vinton

  Business, Fading Away, Different

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• I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.

  B. B. King

  Thinking, Stealing, Plagiarism

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• I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you.

  Tom Verlaine

  Business, Thinking, Way To Live

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

  Brenda Lee

  Honor, Cold, Elders

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• I'd fired anyone who was involved with Creed. I didn't want anything to do with the music business. The entire press and industry hated me, so what was the point?

  Scott Stapp

  Want, Creeds, Hated

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• I may quit the music business someday, but never the music.

  Dan Fogelberg

  May, Quitting, Someday

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

  Kathy Valentine

  Valentines Day, Business, Reflection

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

  Simon Cowell

  Careers, Advice, Would Be

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• 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.

  Larry Mullen, Jr.

  Attachment, Very Deep

  "Larry Mullen Jr: The Man on the Train". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

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• The music business was not safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you know is bad for you, but you love every minute with her, anyway.

  Lionel Richie

  Love, Music, Fun

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• 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.

  Jeremy Renner

  Song, Expression, Play

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

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• I have major respect for Kenny Chesney and Carrie Underwood and Sugarland. They are wonderful. They're superstars in the music business.

  Darius Rucker

  Superstar, Wonderful, Kenny

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

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• I had business experience. I had made my living designing and building electronic equipment. Basic business was not new to me, but the music business was completely new to me. I knew nothing about distribution, or any of those things.

  Greg Ginn

  Design, Building, Made

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• It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting.

  Matthew Sweet

  Mind Your Own Business, Curious, Songwriting

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• There is no telling what is going to happen in the music business in the next few years, hours, minutes, seconds. Giving artists the chance to produce and distribute their own material is great, very empowering. The technological changes that are happening so rapidly now, amongst all the opinions, are in truth, only two things, inevitable and unstoppable.

  Pauley Perrette

  Artist, Years, Technological Change

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• You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

  Barry McGuire

  Numbers, Down And, Rhyming

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

  Christina Milian

  Different, Industry

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• Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.

  John Lydon

  Example, Fascists, Pops

  "Johnny Rotten Praises Battling Bands, Trashes Internet Liars". Interview With Eliot Van Buskirk, www.wired.com. September 3, 2007.

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• I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple. I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it...Music is spiritual. The music business is not. Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

  Van Morrison

  Spiritual, Song, Jobs

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• When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contract and I had to go to Paris to do it. So I went there and that's how I really got into the music business. But I didn't like what I was doing when I got there, so I left, and I never did a record there.

  Madonna Ciccone

  New York, Paris, Dancer

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• This music business can suck all the love out of you, all the compassion for people - you can start to think you're better than them. But I want to continue to let people know that I'm no better and no worse, I'm just like you.

  Mary J. Blige

  Thinking, Compassion, People

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• We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us.

  Jerry Garcia

  Mean, Past, Too Late

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• I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.

  Alan Greenspan

  Success, New York, Business

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• Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.

  Faith Hill

  Couple, Nashville, Different

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• I think Sean Parker damaged the music business with Napster.

  Curtis Jackson

  Thinking, Napster, Sean

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