Music Industry Quotes

• The music industry has been hijacked by corporate interests, but the way music affects people and resonates with them hasn't changed.

  Michael Franti

  People, Way, Changed

  "A voice of change / Michael Franti infuses hip-hop with social activism" by Neva Chonin, www.sfgate.com. June 10, 2001.

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• My hope for the future, not just in the music industry, but in every young girl I meet…is that they all realize their worth and ask for it.

  Taylor Swift

  Girl, Feminist, Realizing

  "For Taylor Swift, the Future of Music Is a Love Story". www.wsj.com. July 7, 2014.

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• I really believe we in the music industry can work together to find a way to bond technology with integrity and just really hope we can teach the younger generation the value of investment in music rather than the ephemeral consumption of it.

  Taylor Swift

  Music, Integrity, Believe

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• I don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot - the methods of releasing music.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Use, Method, Changed

  Interview With Rick Rubin, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 29, 2010.

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• Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.

  Tupac Shakur

  Music, Hero, Homeboys

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

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• Coming into the music industry, even when I was a kid, one thing I learned is timing is everything. You being prepared is everything.

  Kelly Rowland

  Inspiring, Kids, Timing

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• The music industry can feel wonderful, but it can also feel very cold.

  Sara Bareilles

  Cold, Wonderful, Feels

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Make sure this [music industry] is what you love to do, and you can't imagine doing anything else.

  Melanie Martinez

  Imagine, Industry, What You Love

  Source: graffitibeach.wordpress.com

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• If you're the biggest DJ in the world, you're in a position where you can play stuff that people don't know and blow people's minds. But if you just chose to play stuff they know just to get a reaction, that's just being lazy.

  John Digweed

  Music, Blow, Play

  "The problem with mainstream EDM festivals" by Emilee Lindner, www.mtv.com. March 31, 2015.

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• Don't cheat yourself out of music. Music is one thing. The music business is another thing. Save enough of yourself to keep living anyway. Save enough joy in your heart to enjoy it. Let your reward be in the doing of it.

  Bill Withers

  Music, Cheating, Business

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• What's up wit these new niggas? And why they think it all come so easy?

  Drake

  Business, Humble, Thinking

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• You know, Steve Jobs came to the music industry and pitched them the idea and they kept shootin' him down and shootin' him down, and now he makes money off the whole music industry regardless. Which is a minor part of his empire, 'cause obviously it's gadgets that make him all of his money. But regardless, he has basically monopolized the music game.

  Pitbull

  Jobs, Games, Ideas

  Source: www.djbooth.net

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• I think too much of the music industry is for the lawyer and accountant mentality.

  Chuck D

  Thinking, Too Much, Lawyer

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• Humor is everything. Everything. Usually the negatives turned out to be the most positive for me. In the music industry, any other artist would have looked at the situation I was in and thought, "Oh man, this is not for me." I looked at it more like Darwin exploring the Galápagos Islands. You know - survival of the fittest.

  Pitbull

  Artist, Men, Islands

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• One thing the music industry has taught me is to manage my expectations.

  Q-Tip

  Expectations, Taught, Manage

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• Everything about the music industry takes away from you as an artist. They're always wondering what the next thing is: 'What do you have?' It's a very introverted process.

  Gary Allan

  Artist, Next, Wonder

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• When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.

  Janelle Monae

  Artist, Makeup, Hair

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• The music industry is an interesting lens through which to look at change, because it has had such a difficult time adjusting to the digital age.

  Jennifer Egan

  Interesting, Age, Adjusting

  "Conversation: Author Jennifer Egan". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. July 1, 2010.

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• The primary role of the music industry is to have artists be heard above the rest. It's a big needle in a haystack problem. The Internet has the service and tools to find the needle in a haystack.

  Ali Partovi

  Artist, Roles, Tools

  "Simple downloads, complex change" by Michael Coren, www.cnn.com. August 23, 2004.

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• I always wanted to be a musician from when I was kid. It was always a massive dream of mine. School was also really really important to me and having an education was top of my priority. So I really wanted to have a degree before I tried anything in the music industry.

  Emeli Sande

  Dream, School, Kids

  "Emeli Sande: The other Adele goes from med school to music" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. June 05, 2012.

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• We have learned the lesson that the music industry didn't learn. Give people what they want, when they want it, in the form they want it in, at a reasonable price - and they'll more likely pay for it rather than steal it.

  Kevin Spacey

  People, Giving, Lessons

  "Kevin Spacey on Netflix: 'we have learned the lesson that the music industry didn't'" by Bryan Bishop, www.theverge.com. August 26, 2013.

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• The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.

  Adam Kluger

  Laid Back, Aggressive, Industry

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• I think that the people who put caps and the people who put genres on music are the people who are killing our music industry.

  Austin Carlile

  Thinking, People, Killing

  Source: www.redrivernoise.com

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• I think you gotta always do things that keep you excited in an [rap music] industry that's so bullshit. When you know that you have so much energy and so much to give, it would be a shame if the facilitators of that aren't enthusiastic about you doing it, because you've been doing it for so long. So you just gotta figure out ways in this insane business to keep it fresh.

  Nas

  Rap, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The music industry was invented, like, 100 years ago. I'm talking about the goddess Matangi, who invented music 5,000 years ago. She was the only thing that inspired me.

  M.I.A.

  Talking, Years, Inspired

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. October 17, 2013.

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