Music Industry Quotes

So many people equate money and success with happiness, especially in the music industry.

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

The music industry is such a huge machine. There are still a lot of good people in it, but the character of the industry and the culture of the industry is very fast.

I think the sports industry and the music industry are all tied in together.

I've never been in the music industry, only acting.

I still don't understand the music industry that much. Everything I learned was from hanging out with rock musicians in studios. I certainly have respect for those who make music their livelihood.

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.

We're not a band because we're trying to be the Mother Teresas of the music industry, out to serve everybody. We're a band first and foremost because we love playing pop music.

Most of the reggae awareness is still among music industry people and people who are already into all types of music.

It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening to more music than ever and from a greater diversity of artists.

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.

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.

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.

I just want to do films 'cause I like being someone else. My music is kind of like my diary. I'll always do that... I just feel like the music industry isn't as positive as I'd like it to be.

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.

The odds are so stacked against you to have a music career in a place where there's virtually no music industry. So I always attribute it to God.

But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.

Mick Jagger has produced some great films and brought us stories about the music industry that have changed the way we think about how music is made.

We were working in entertainment, in the music industry, with popular music, it was important, but it was something that we also felt was a responsibility.

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

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.

The music industry has always been a beast, which would eat you up and spit you out.

Everyone in the music industry is so fun and laid-back.

We were the rebels of the music industry so we wanted to write a rebellious song.

Times are tough in the music industry, and now more than ever we need people like the team at Paste looking out for artists on the fringe of the mainstream.

A lot of females are openly discussing their experiences as women in the music industry.

No matter what does, or doesn't, happen for me in the music industry, getting to play the Opry as a kid was always be a highlight of mine.

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.

I'm proud of my roots. There are not many Asians in the music industry so it's important for me to tell people where I'm from.

At the end of the day, I want the music industry to be larger than what it is today.

The coolest thing about the music industry is that it's super collaborative and based on relationships and mutual respect.

There's definitely something broken in the music industry clearly. Partly from downloading and partly the obstacles for discovery and listener choice and artist distribution are gone.

If you look at the market cap increase in Apple since it created the iPod versus what's happened to the music industry, you have to say Apple got the better part of that deal.

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.

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

In the music industry it's just you're either Black or white, and this is the box you get put in.

Well, the music industry is littered with actors who belatedly came to singing.

I think to find an escape route out of a music industry that is becoming more and more focused on making money.

The music industry is rolling in cash...

It doesn't necessarily always come down to race in the music industry. It can be whoever has the most money, has the most power, and that's really the struggle - dealing with how crazy money is.

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

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.

Anytime I shoot a video, I just think of anything I can do to set myself apart from everybody in the music industry.

Because you're a woman, the music industry puts you in another corner. I want to be fighting with the men. I want to be amongst the men, topless, throwing things onstage. Pitchfork: Whe

The music industry is so tied up politically. They're afraid they might let other voices in.

I think after a few years and working on so many projects, you don't get jaded but the level of your expectations is minimal, especially the way the music industry is today.

I've admired Alicia Keys since before I got into the music industry, just everything she represents as a female artist.

I was part of the first wave of singer/songwriters but I was also in that first wave of singer/songwriters who experienced the music industry when technology started to take over.

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

The music industry doesn't exist the way it used to. You'll never have another star like the stars of the '90s.