Music Industry Quotes - Page 4

• L.A. to me feels like music industry, and Nashville to me feels like music community.

  Sheryl Crow

  Nashville, Community, Feels

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• So much is filtered by pop music today, because the music industry is driven by single, single, single, single, the next single, not the nurturing of artists and that kind of thing.

  Paul Weller

  Artist, Today, Next

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

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• I think as far as the music industry is concerned, it's kind of been the wild, wild West in a way with the Internet, which is not necessarily a bad thing to me.

  Queen Latifah

  Thinking, Way, West

  "Queen Latifah: 'Joyful Noise' Role Brings Her Closer to God". Interview with Kelly Mahan, theboombox.com. January 4, 2012.

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• By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum

  Steve Albini

  Wise, Rocks, Band

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• Technological change is discontinuous. The monks in their scriptoria did not invent the printing press, horse breeders did not invent the motorcar, and the music industry did not invent the iPod or launch iTunes.

  Jason Epstein

  Horse, Technological Change, Ipods

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• I definitely don't have a music industry goal because I've done that and completed that work. My quest is to find new platforms for music to live. Once we do that and find different ways of getting music to people, whether that's 5000 or 1 million people, I'll feel successful. I want to make sure I'm adding something to the marketplace, so that's my goal.

  Chuck Harmony

  Successful, People, Goal

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.

  Daniel Ek

  People, Way, Months

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• I think just the music industry sometimes is a very tough business. But still, if it's just something you just love dearly, you really can't just put it down.

  Tiffany Villarreal

  Thinking, Tough, Sometimes

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world.

  Vanessa Carlton

  Ballet, World, Easy

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

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

  Tori Amos

  Spit, Vicious, Industry

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• It's interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had.

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

  Book, Ipads, Interesting

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• The way the music industry is now geared, it's fewer accolades towards new and upcoming acts. New bands offer bright creativity. It's a set format. A venue would rather hire a DJ than a band, and that's a problem.

  John Lydon

  Creativity, Band, Way

  Source: www.axs.com

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• I believe I could have had a career in the music industry without 'X Factor,' but it was an amazing platform that propelled me to where I am now.

  Leona Lewis

  Believe, Careers, Platforms

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

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• When I started getting so many haters and closed doors, I decided to prove that it could be done. I was a divorced single mother of three at the time and a size 12 - not your typical model artist that labels feel work for the music industry.

  Jenni Rivera

  Mother, Artist, Doors

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• If you don't have any ties to the music industry, you just love 'American Idol,' you can sit there and do exactly what you do in your living room, which is stare at them and judge them.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Idols, Ties, Judging

  "Neil Patrick Harris 'shattered dreams' on 'Idol'" by Whitney Pastorek, www.today.com. August 29, 2009.

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• Amazingly, I've been sort of an anomaly in the music industry. I feel like I've been able to exist as kind of a throwback artist.

  Jewel

  Artist, Anomalies, Able

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• Nice guys just don't finish first in the music industry.

  Rodney King

  Nice, Guy, Firsts

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

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• I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.

  Adam Lambert

  Thinking, Competition, Transition

  "Adam Lambert talks new album, 'Idol' knock-offs". Interview With Derrik J. Lang, www.yahoo.com. May 14, 2012.

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• At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Song, Commercial Music, Rights

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• I know that women in the music industry get treated a lot differently than men. I've seen it firsthand with somebody in particular, where it's almost that men like to treat women in the music industry like they can't make their own decisions.

  Patrick Carney

  Men, Decision, Treats

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I do feel like I'm a survivor because the music industry is still a boys' club. I really respect all the women in the business. I know trusting yourself is hard work but it helps you avoid all the traps and labels that come with being in this business.

  Nelly Furtado

  Hard Work, Boys, Survivor

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The fact that people still know us is, in my opinion, a result of our music and of the big money that runs the music industry today. The people who control the industry are accountants who recycle everything in new, nostalgic packages, and everything else, to make more money.

  Rick Wright

  Running, Money, People

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• Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs.

  Kara DioGuardi

  Song, Artist, Backbone

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• I don't get tied to the music industry where you have to be on social media all day.

  Tweet

  Media, Social, Tied

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• What happens to a lot of artists in the music industry right now is the following: The music industry is plummeting real fast. So as the industry plummets, what happens is that there is no deals being made.

  RZA

  Real, Artist, Made

  Source: www.rappersiknow.com

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