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Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business.

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.

Money had never been the main thing for me. It's the legacy that was important.

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

If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors.

My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him.

Independent artists and labels have always been the trendsetters in music and the music business.

The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.

I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody.

There's no difference in dealing with the music business with the majors than any other competition. The music business is way more cutthroat than any other business.

If this company is about anything, it's about discipline and staying focused.

Just because it happened to you, doesn't mean it's interesting.

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.

Elvis Presley is all there is. There just ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with Elvis. He wrote the book. He is everything to do and not to do in the music business.

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

I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism.

I never had the feeling I ever had to make a dime doing anything.

Out of the ashes of the music business, comes the rebirth of the musician business.

I just had to find all my friends that used to be in the business. As I say, the music business didn't die, it just moved to Nashville.

Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.

The music business would be much better, for the youth and the kids, if they start hiring employees that understand the kids.

You know how it is with drawers and labels in the music business. They don't want anything to be complicated. They just want it simple, as simple as possible.

I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound and knowing the music business the way I do - all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.

The things Elvis has done during his career and the things he has contributed and created are really something very important to the music business.

My skin is an art gallery right, with paintings and crucifixes hoping to save me from all the dangers in the music business

I'd say we [Apple Inc.] are the most creative of the technology companies and definitely the most artist-friendly. Almost everyone in the music business uses a Mac and everyone has an iPod.

If I wanted to fight to make a better world racially, I wouldn't be in the music business. You dig, if I were going to be a freedom fighter music is the wrong field.

The music business is not a good place for people who don't know things.

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.

My mom nor my father never pushed me into the music business. I always did it because I wanted to.

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

Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works.

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

I was 13 and my mom was a librarian so I told her to check out every music book she could possibly find. I wanted to know the business part of being in the music business.

I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.

Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.

I'm meeting a lot of musicians and people in the music business, and am constantly trying to figure out what I want to do with music. We'll see. I want to do everything.

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

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.

The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing.

Music and the music business are two different things.

The female rock-'n'-roll-country-pop songwriter is back, and her name is Taylor Swift. And it's women like her who are going to save the music business.

I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.

Education is extremely important, especially in my business, the music business.

Hollywood is about playing the game, and I can't think of any successful actresses who didn't play the game. There's a lot more renegades in the music business, from Patti Smith to Janis Joplin.

There's also, I think more so in the music business and especially for women, this ceiling that people put on you if you have children or a family and decide to spend time with them.

I wanted to be great. And I loved Nashville, so that made it easy. I loved the music business. It made it easy for me to stay and make a life here.

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

When I was 17 years old, I was in the music business.

The music business used to carry a certain amount of brotherly love, but it isn't that way now.