Music Business Quotes
I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.
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.
I think it's a reflection of the music business in general, which to me seems very fragmented.
If I don't make music I'm going back to the hood. I'll sell crack. I'm gonna go back to sell crack if I can't make it in the music business and that's what I was doing before that.
I had no idea that I could sustain a career as an artist. But, I loved music and wanted to be in the music business.
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.
Somebody asked me the question not too long ago: 'Dave, do you think the music business has turned corrupt.' I said: 'Absolutely not - it has always been corrupt.'
You can do any number of things in the music business aside from trying to look like you're 25. To me it's embarrassing.
I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business.
I really worked with icons in the music business, which really had a strong effect on me. It wasn't just pick-up gigs.
I wanted to do an acting role in a movie that had nothing to do with the music business or in which I would play a singer or a songwriter. When I act, I don't even want to be thought of as Ne-Yo.
I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.
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?
The one thing about the music business is that there is no rulebook. It's not like the NFL or something where there's four downs to get ten yards or baseball where it's three strikes and you're out.
Get into the music business. This is the business that you have absolutely no requirements. You listen to music, you need no college degree.
As an improvising musician, I am not in the music business, I am not in the creativity business; I am in the surrender business.
The death of the music business was insane, but audio recordings have been around now for maybe 120 years. Books have been around for, what, nine centuries? So they're more entrenched than music.
Retire for what? What would I do? I made my name as a person that is helping. I'm like Moses in the music business.
I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate.
The music business, or what's left of it, is obviously a very - it's like a wild west now.
Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time.
The music business is just the worst as far as Machiavellian, sharky, evil games going on, as far as manipulation.
When you are a journalist in the music business, as I was, you end up dying or going to the gym - I chose the gym.
I don't live in as much fear as I used to. I'm not afraid of the music business. Life is too damn short. I know what's important, and the tasks are very clear.
The people who come out on top in music business have persistence. It is key! Fall down seven times; stand up eight. It takes a lot of courage and an unwavering belief in yourself and your abilities.
This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.
I was always a singer. But I was always focused on being an actor as my trade. Music I do just for me. The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible.
There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.
The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn't happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it.
I have a lot of dislike for the business end of the music business, particularly what they call shopping for a label. It can be a real stupid thing.
By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.
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.
