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Music is spiritual. The music business is not. -- Van Morrison
I attended a post-college program in L.A. for Music Business and Production. Took several courses involving Music Production, Arrangement, and Songwriting. -- Adam Kluger
Rock n' roll is poison put to sound. -- Pablo Casals
I want to hear the word 'cherish' about 5 times. -- Clive Davis
People don't buy plastic and paper, they buy emotions. -- Scott Young
Music and the music business are two different things. -- Erykah Badu
He took my music, but he gave me my name. -- Muddy Waters
You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing. -- Rod Stewart
I'm a survivor in a business that constantly rejects you. -- Dick Clark
Just because it happened to you, doesn't mean it's interesting. -- Dennis Hopper
The way I see it, rock n' roll is folk music. -- Robert Plant
If this company is about anything, it's about discipline and staying focused. -- Jimmy Iovine
The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer. -- John Oates
I've made hundreds of legendary records that people talk about that didn't sell. -- Jerry Wexler
I wish there had been a music business 101 course I could have taken. -- Kurt Cobain
The music business can be very cold. And it doesn't honor its elders. -- Brenda Lee
The music business is not a good place for people who don't know things. -- Mary J. Blige
The music business is really a spiritual business whether we know it or not. -- Kurtis Blow
In Los Angeles, they don't want you to fail, they want you to die. -- David Geffen
We're the McDonalds of rock. Were always there to satisfy, and a billion served. -- Paul Stanley
The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings. -- Erykah Badu
I never had the feeling I ever had to make a dime doing anything. -- Rick Rubin
To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It's exhausting. -- Nick Cave
If the milk industry can make their product seem sexy and increase consumer demand, there must be hope for music. -- Gary Arnold
Going to radio with a rap record prior to going to the consumer is like having no foreplay with your girlfriend. -- Lyor Cohen
Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear. -- Frank Zappa
Anybody that forms a group, writes songs and releases records and says they don't care if people like them are complete liars. -- James Dean Bradfield
I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business. -- Randy Travis
American music is something the rest of the world wants to listen to. Our job is to make sure they pay for it. -- Jason Michael Berman
When you hear my records today hear a vanilla sounding artist with no black inflection, although I was trying to imitate what I heard. -- Pat Boone
I hate to say this, but at the time, (late 70's) it was like the smart people liked punk and the dumb people liked Journey. -- Howie Klein
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. -- Noel Gallagher
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. -- Moby
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. -- Joni Mitchell
At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that. -- John Legend
Books are so cheap and easy to get that people don't bother stealing them, which is the essential rule of piracy that the music business learned much too late. -- Tucker Max
I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable. -- Tupac Shakur
I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in a racket. There's no way you can get involved in a racket and not someway be filthied by it. -- Steve Albini
I've done well, I've been disappointed, and I think it all goes back to you. Of course the labels are going to be the labels. It's the music business. You are a business. That's what they do. So you've got to protect yourself. -- Mary J. Blige
We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us. -- Jerry Garcia
This rise of the new global mega-rich is happening as established institutions are falling. The fall runs the gamut from the music business and traditional media to the Detroit automakers who find themselves obsolete, outmaneuvered, and out-priced by entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, Mumbai, Shanghai, and even Siberia. -- Robert Kiyosaki
The whole music business in the United States is based on numbers, based on unit sales and not on quality. It's not based on beauty, it's based on hype and it's based on cocaine. It's based on giving presents of large packages of dollars to play records on the air. -- Frank Zappa
The music business is very hard on women over 22. You really have to prove yourself every time you make a record. Are you as vibrant as you used to be? Are you as sexy? So I really want to prove that a woman in her 30s can be all those things and more. -- Jody Watley
We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on. -- Jon Bon Jovi
Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman. -- Dolly Parton
I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out. -- Nas
The '60s was a magical time in the music business. So much creativity and talent. I think a lot of it came from the fact that we had grown up before rock n' roll. We listened to all the great songwriters and big bands, songs with great lyrics and melodies. I think that really influenced everybody. -- Frankie Valli
I found that so many people in the music business started out as metalheads in the Eighties - whether they're songwriters, producers, engineers or executives, and no matter what they look like, with short hair, suits or whatever. I feel like my generation of metal kids really tends to populate the music world to a large extent. -- Rivers Cuomo
For the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it's doom and gloom and you have to spend millions of pounds on marketing and this and that, you have this amazing thing now called fan power. The whole world is linked through a laptop. It's amazing. And it's free. I love it. It's absolutely brilliant. -- Simon Cowell
I think the path is different for everybody. Go after the doors that are open to you. That has always been my motto getting into the music business. Do the things that seem to be good opportunities and work hard at it. Try to make good decisions and be nice. Hopefully all of that will pay off at some point. -- Chris Stapleton
From being a little girl in the projects, going through all of the mess that I was going through, to ending up at the Inauguration for the first African-American president, I'm speechless right now because I never thought I'd - I never ever - I couldn't even see that far. Even when I ended up in the music business, I couldn't see that. -- Mary J. Blige
The music business is strictly business. -- Kenny Rogers
The music business doesn't interest me anymore. -- Lou Reed
I love the music business very much. -- Connie Smith
I guess music in general is the transportation business. -- Howard Rheingold
It's unfortunate that music has become such big business. -- Rosanna Arquette
I've always treated the music business as a business. -- Simon Cowell
I have always abhorred the business end of music. -- Mark Edwards
I have always abhorred the business end of music. -- Mark Edwards
Music is life, and life is not a business. -- Iggy Pop
When I was 17-years-old, I was in the music business. -- Scott Caan
I think Sean Parker damaged the music business with Napster. -- Curtis Jackson
Education is extremely important, especially in my business, the music business. -- Ludacris
I may quit the music business someday, but never the music. -- Dan Fogelberg
Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do. -- John Oates
I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money. -- Nat King Cole
Being in the music business is a totally different industry right there. -- Christina Milian
When I went to City of Bath College, I studied the music business. -- Gabrielle Aplin
Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is. -- Samuel Pepys
The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business. -- Billy Corgan
A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business. -- Loretta Lynn
Music is everybody's business. It's only the publishers who think people own it -- John Lennon
I hate the pigeonholing that's happened in the music business in the last 30 years. -- Brian McKnight
This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words. -- Jennifer Egan
The best decision I ever made, period, was to get into the music business. -- Ja Rule
I owe Elvis my career, and the entire music business owes him it's lifeline. -- Cliff Richard
If you want to make money in music, get into the band uniform business. -- Henry Mancini
I think the music business will eventually crush me, but I [smiles]... I'm ready. -- Elliott Smith
The music business has let me touch a lot of people with my talent. -- Britney Spears
I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have. -- Ginger Baker
I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend. -- Elvis Presley
It will be only a matter of time before the music business establishment completely folds. -- Thom Yorke
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I hate that sense of entitlement or the sense of business crawling into playing music. -- Joshua Homme
Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable. -- David Johansen
Out of the ashes of the music business, comes the rebirth of the musician business. -- John Perry Barlow
The music industry is a vicious business. It chews women up and spits them out. -- Tori Amos
I am involved in the creation of software, and I'm also in the music business. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The Philadelphia/New York world of the music business is a tough place to be. -- Daryl Hall
It's a small percentile of people who see one dime out of the music business. -- Chad Kroeger
My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't. -- Simon Cowell
I tell people I'm big in the music business like a barnacle is big in shipping. -- Vance Gilbert
Independent artists and labels have always been the trend setters in music and the music business. -- Shawn Fanning
Punishing people for listening to music is exactly the wrong way to protect the music business. -- Moby
There's too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging. -- Jimmy Page
Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying. -- Neil Young
I think it's a reflection of the music business in general, which to me seems very fragmented. -- Kathy Valentine
Things can turn ugly so quickly in the music business, especially if you have an unexpected success. -- Dean Wareham
This is a business built on promotion. We've been giving music away to radio stations for 30 years. -- Hilary Rosen
Who would want to break into [the music business]? It's like a bank that's already been robbed. -- Randy Newman
Elvis changed the country music scene quite a bit; he almost put country music out of business. -- Chet Atkins
By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family. -- Lawrence Welk
I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades. -- Peter Asher
There's much more money being brought into the advertising and communications business than in the music industry. -- Steve Stoute
I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business. -- Jeff Healey
The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse. -- Frank Zappa
My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex. -- Anthony Braxton
... you can't be in the music business as long as "Steve and Edie" have, if you stink .. -- Steve Lawrence
If you had ever heard my album you would know that I could never consider the music business! -- Dwayne Hickman
I still have a lot to learn - about the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting. -- Britney Spears
The music business used to carry a certain amount of brotherly love, but it isn't that way now. -- Jimmy Rushing
There's nothing that can prepare you for fame and for the music business at any point in history. -- Terry Bozzio
I'm just trying to survive and stay relevant! That's all anyone in the music business can ask for. -- Christopher Tin
The music is fun and all that, but first and foremost it is a business, it's about money. -- Steve Brown
Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record. -- Nile Rodgers
Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached. -- Eric Clapton
Strategies are great, business models are great, but the reality is your music has to mean something to people. -- Brother Ali
Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should. -- Dan Hill
It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads. -- Oliver Sacks
Music is kind of a strange business, and it's too weird of a job to have mean, conniving people around. -- Annie E. Clark

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