Music Industry Quotes - Page 8

• I initially wanted to work in the music industry more on the A&R side. While I was in school, I began working in the New Business department of an advertising firm, and very quickly I was responsible for roughly 70% of their business, so you could say I had a natural knack for the advertising world.

  Adam Kluger

  School, Knack, World

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• This civil action is another case of a tragedy that has become all too familiar in the music industry: a business manager and professional advisers exploit an immensely talented artist's loyalty and trust through greed, self-dealing, concealment, knowing misrepresentation and reckless disregard for professional fiduciary duties.

  Leonard Cohen

  Loyalty, Artist, Self

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• In the music industry, you meet some not very nice people, some very strange characters.

  Midge Ure

  Nice, Character, People

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• Whenever I have time, I try to get in the studio and write, whether it's for me or other artists or my catalog of music. It's definitely one of my favorite parts of the music industry.

  Jesse McCartney

  Writing, Artist, Trying

  "Jesse McCartney Follows Justin Timberlake's Example As His Music Matures" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. December 12, 2008.

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• I started selling corn dogs, ended up in the music industry. That's how it all started.

  Ryan Tedder

  Dog, Corn, Selling

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• I believe that the art market is in a place similar to the music industry in 2005. Big changes are coming and the art market will most likely be very different in ten years. However, if you are the art equivalent of Van Halen, you don't really have to change anything. But if you are not Van Halen, then it is time to figure how to adapt to all the changes.

  Mark Edward

  Art, Believe, Years

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• When you think of Napster, you think of music. But the first thing that struck me was that this was an important case not only for the music industry but for the whole Internet.

  David Boies

  Thinking, Important, Napster

  "David Boies: The Wired Interview". www.wired.com. October 01, 2000.

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• The Internet was a saving grace for promoting and exposing, and even creating. It's a parallel world to the music industry that already exists, and I'm glad to be a part of it.

  Chuck D

  Creating, Grace, World

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. June 13, 2001.

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• A whole generation of veteran composers has never taken a stand or provided an example and has produced in the music academies generations of docile workers for the music industry. What can you expect from downtrodden workers who see music as a type of profession, like stenography, and not an act of creation that by its nature is subversive?

  Itay Talgam

  Taken, Example, Generations

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• If you're frustrated by a music industry that seems too hard to break into, you're not alone. The BIG secret is information...It's not who you know, it's what you know. People who know how to put their music out make money. People who don't know how, have to beg others to help them. It's as simple as that. HipHopBiz.com provides the information people like you have been using since 1992 to release their own music.

  Walt F. J. Goodridge

  Simple, People, Frustrated

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• Everyone has learned how to monetize music except the music industry.

  Pete Wentz

  Industry

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• The sham engineers of the music industry, who steer the wheels of public opinion, are driving the good features of calypso into the ground. I shudder to think what these greedy men will eventually do to this true art form.

  Harry Belafonte

  Art, Men, Thinking

  New Musical Express Magazine, May 1957.

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• When people lose their jobs, they can either get another job or be entrepreneurs. In the music industry, a lot of people have attempted the latter by starting their own labels, but in the age of digital downloads, it's very difficult to succeed.

  Judd Apatow

  Jobs, People, Entrepreneur

  Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. December 11, 2012.

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• When I first started out in the music industry and went to Elektra Records, I didn't go to be an artist, I went to get a record label started. And they said in order to have a label deal, I had to be an artist - so that's what I did.

  Missy Elliot

  Artist, Order, Labels

  Source: www.elle.com

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• No one really buys records anymore. You can look at sales and do that math real quick. Unfortunately, it's fast food in the music industry. People don't ingest full records anymore.

  Tommy Lee

  Real, Math, People

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• The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening to the film studios. It's crazy what's going on. But artists should have control of their work; especially if, as I always say, you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea.

  David Lynch

  Crazy, Artist, Should Have

  "David Lynch Interviews – Uncut". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. March 10, 2006.

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• When I was first starting out in the music industry, I was always coupled in the same sentence with Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera - and I was probably the worst of them. I think a lot of people back then thought, 'Mandy Moore... she'll probably go back to where she came from in a year.'

  Mandy Moore

  Thinking, Years, People

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• It's not just the 'Grammys' that I've pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success.

  Alanis Morissette

  Believe, Awards, Reason

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• You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.

  Lance Reddick

  Stars, Artist, Rocks

  "'Wire' and 'Fringe' star makes music, too". Interview with John Carucci, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. January 10, 2011.

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• Starbucks has changed the rules of engagement for the music industry.

  Howard Schultz

  Engagement, Starbucks, Changed

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• There's prejudice everywhere. I don't think the music industry is as bad as the movie industry. But I have taken a few hits over the years for my sexuality, and for being honest about my life. In the end, it's the music that rules the roost.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Taken, Thinking, Years

  "Portrait of the artist: Rufus Wainwright, musician". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2010.

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• The music industry isn't converging toward dance music. Dance music is dance music. It's been around since disco - and way before disco. But there's different versions of dance music.

  will.i.am

  Different, Way, Music Is

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

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• I feel that homophobia runs rampant in the music industry, and that artists are allowed to speak openly in a hateful way, in a homophobic way, in a misogynistic way, and the press does not challenge them. And I'm going to be taking a very strong stance against that, and I am an artist who refuses to accept that behavior.

  Lady Gaga

  Running, Strong, Artist

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• The games industry is already bigger than the music industry, and it's mainly directed at teenage boys.

  Thomas Dolby

  Teenage, Boys, Games

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• I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.

  Van Morrison

  Thinking, Rock N Roll, Irish Music

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