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Downloadable music is the biggest musical phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is slow to come to grips with that. -- Chuck D
Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him. -- Tupac Shakur
I don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot - the methods of releasing music. -- Anthony Kiedis
The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute. -- Jonathan Davis
I'd rather kill myself than work in the music industry today. -- David Geffen
Starbucks has changed the rules of engagement for the music industry. -- Howard Schultz
'Vinyl' is a good look at the music industry. The script was honest. -- Phil Daniels
One thing the music industry has taught me is to manage my expectations. -- Q-Tip
What I try to push and promote is peace through the whole music industry. -- Snoop Dogg
The Grammys make me hate music, and certainly everyone in the ass-licking music industry. -- Trent Reznor
When you look at what people consider success in the music industry, it's just terrible music. -- Conor Oberst
It's just kind of known in the music industry that a farewell tour means 'for now.' -- Nikki Sixx
If Apple's a technology company in the music industry, why can't somebody in the music industry make technology? -- will.i.am
The music industry has been hijacked by corporate interests, but the way music affects people and resonates with them hasn't changed. -- Michael Franti
Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online. -- Gus Van Sant
Amazingly, I've been sort of an anomaly in the music industry. I feel like I've been able to exist as kind of a throwback artist. -- Jewel
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. -- Coco Lee
I don't think piracy is going to kill the music industry. But digital technology and the ability to download will change the packaging from CDs to a single-based business. -- Richard Parsons
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. -- Leona Lewis
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
Radio is not a partner in the industry. I think that the music industry has continued to depend upon radio, but has ended up pandering to a medium that doesn't care. -- Don Rose
Today's consumer is less interested in possessing things and more in experiencing them. That's something the music industry needs to get its head around. Do we even need record companies any more? -- Jimmy Chamberlin
I'm not interested in forcing my music on people, and that's what the whole music industry nowadays is based on is forcing stations to play it, forcing people to listen to it. -- John Frusciante
The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn't it? -- Ronnie James Dio
It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music. -- Tom Petty
It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy. -- Chubby Checker
The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records. -- Richard Branson
We've learned the lesson that the music industry didn't learn: give people what they want, when they want it, in the form they want it in, at a reasonable price, and they'll more likely pay for it rather than steal it. -- Kevin Spacey
I have been in the music industry ever since I was six years old. I have been inspired by so many great artists and of course trying to be original at the same time. I try not to work under boundaries while I'm making music. -- Asher Monroe
Just as like the music industry still wishes for the days when it controlled its own production and distribution, the media and marketing world still yearns for the silver bullet of the thirty-second spot on 'Seinfeld,' even as it knows those days are over. -- John Battelle
I think the Grammys are nothing more than some gigantic promotional machine for the music industry. They cater to a low intellect and they feed the masses. They don't honor the arts or the artist for what he created. It's the music business celebrating itself. -- Maynard James Keenan
The only thing I wanted to accomplish was to finally get recognized by the music industry. If you know the awards, answer me this question: Do you see an award for soul music? No. They have R&B, funk, hip-hop and all sorts of contemporary things. -- Sharon Jones
When I started getting so many haters and closed doors, I decided to prove that it could be done. I was a divorced single mother of three at the time and a size 12 - not your typical model artist that labels feel work for the music industry. -- Jenni Rivera
I wanted to be a vet, a nurse, a chef - I mean, anything but the music industry. But once I hit high school, the bug really bit me. You can't deny where you come from and what's in your genes, and music definitely was. I haven't looked back since. -- Hillary Scott
New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify music that is neither jazz, classical, pop or rock. They didn't know what to call it or what to do with it. So they threw it all together under this one name. -- Yanni
I actually think that bass is probably the instrument that has evolved in a quantum leap compared to other instruments. It's the instrument that's evolved the most, especially with how it's perceived. And even how it's played, and how it's viewed from a point of view of commerce, like with the music industry. -- Stanley Clarke
My success set me up for life, and it meant that I could retire from the music industry at 27 to spend time with my newborn daughter and my wife. My time away from the spotlight allowed me to rediscover my love for music, and I'm doing it for me now and no one else. -- Rick Astley
The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it. -- Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
Music industry is so fickle, there's so many politics. I think a lot of people don't pay attention to the credits or the artistry no more. I think there's so much concern about what's going on right now instead of the actual artistry. But that's how the record business is, but for acting, I got that covered. -- Bow Wow
In recent years, you've probably read the articles about major recording artists who have decided to practically give their music away, for this promotion or that exclusive deal. My hope for the future, not just in the music industry, but in every young girl I meet...is that they all realize their worth and ask for it. -- Taylor Swift
To be in the music industry, to be in any kind of entertainment industry, you really, really have to be passionate about it and love it and persevere, because if that passion isn't there, it's easy to give up. If you really want it, the ambition is there, it'll come. It's definitely harder work than some people think. -- Alexandra Chando
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
If you have good songs and a real desire to make music, the next thing to do, instead of approach record companies, is to get yourself a really good manager because then it allows you to focus on your profession of being a musician. Then they can focus on the darker art of the record label and the music industry. -- James Blunt
Indie music is 'it' now. It's kind of a revolution to the music: 1980s, 1990s music was getting very sanitized; they were complying with the music industry. Music was getting more and more dead in a way. Now, because of the social climate that's very severe, the artists are compelled to start being real. It's really great that indie music is now. -- Yoko Ono
I could write all songs all day long about what I think about the music industry or music in general. Sometimes I gotta be like, "Let's write about something else." You don't want to say the same thing over and over again. In a lot of ways, I look at records as a year or two of my life encapsulated in songs. They're almost like journal entries. -- Laura Jane Grace
A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it. -- Taylor Swift
The music industry is very small. -- Rita Ora
The music industry had virtually blacklisted me. -- Irene Cara
The music industry is rolling in cash. -- Jessica Pare
I've never been in the music industry, only acting. -- Victoria Jackson
In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued. -- Bat for Lashes
Everyone in the music industry is so fun and laid-back. -- Audrina Patridge
Nice guys just don't finish first in the music industry. -- Rodney King
I've worked with many powerful men in the music industry. -- Tori Amos
This is the industry that wants [music], the rap industry. -- Young Thug
In the music industry, you are in competition with everyone. -- Mandy Moore
The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world -- Vanessa Carlton
The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive, -- Adam Kluger
Everyone has learned how to monetize music except the music industry. -- Pete Wentz
I dedicated almost 12 years to the music industry before having children. -- Monica Denise Brown
Being in the music business is a totally different industry right there. -- Christina Milian
Has the industry done to music what McDonald's has done to eating? -- Tiffanie DeBartolo
Well, the music industry is littered with actors who belatedly came to singing. -- Jeff Daniels
And I just pray that god gives me longevity in the music industry. -- Ruben Studdard
The music industry can feel wonderful, but it can also feel very cold. -- Sara Bareilles
Vinyl' is a good look at the music industry. The script was honest. -- Phil Daniels
My critics are pretty tough. I've never been one of the music industry's pets. -- Blake Shelton
I think the sports industry and the music industry are all tied in together. -- SonReal
So many people equate money and success with happiness, especially in the music industry. -- DJ Jazzy Jeff
The approach that the music industry took to fight piracy was the wrong strategy. -- MC Hammer
I think too much of the music industry is for the lawyer and accountant mentality. -- Chuck D
I'll be honest, watching the music industry collapse has been demoralizing and disheartening at times. -- Trent Reznor
I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time. -- Isaac Hanson
In the music industry, you meet some not very nice people, some very strange characters. -- Midge Ure
The music industry is a vicious business. It chews women up and spits them out. -- Tori Amos
By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum -- Steve Albini
By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum. -- Steve Albini
We were the rebels of the music industry so we wanted to write a rebellious song. -- Brian Harvey
Its just kind of known in the music industry that a farewell tour means for now. -- Nikki Sixx
The music industry is so tied up politically. They're afraid they might let other voices in. -- M.I.A.
But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music. -- Isaac Hanson
The industry is always changing, but country music is like a force that always comes back. -- Tyler Farr
With the advent of radio and recording, music became an industry rather than just a tradition. -- Arlo Guthrie
I started selling corn dogs, ended up in the music industry. That's how it all started. -- Ryan Tedder
L.A. to me feels like music industry, and Nashville to me feels like music community. -- Sheryl Crow
There's much more money being brought into the advertising and communications business than in the music industry. -- Steve Stoute
The music industry has always been a beast, which would eat you up and spit you out. -- Annie Lennox
The games industry is already bigger than the music industry, and it's mainly directed at teenage boys. -- Thomas Dolby
I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that. -- Van Morrison
The iPhone revolutionised the mobile industry, rather like the iPod before it with the personal music player. -- Julian Ovenden
I don't get tied to the music industry where you have to be on social media all day. -- Tweet
This was work (music industry) but it was the awakening to what was to become a life's passion. -- Clive Davis
Make sure this [music industry] is what you love to do, and you can't imagine doing anything else. -- Melanie Martinez
I called the album 'The Chemo' because it seems like the industry and music overall is dying slowly. -- Busta Rhymes
Every time the industry gets powerful, and corporate thinking dominates what the music is, then the music really pales. -- Paul Simon
The coolest thing about the music industry is that it's super collaborative and based on relationships and mutual respect. -- David Macklovitch
It's interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had. -- Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
Our industry [classic music] has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity. -- Esa-Pekka Salonen
But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th. -- Obie Trice
At the end of the day, I want the music industry to be larger than what it is today. -- Daniel Ek
If the milk industry can make their product seem sexy and increase consumer demand, there must be hope for music. -- Gary Arnold
I think anybody that is going to be taken seriously in [music] industry needs to produce their own original music. -- Paul Oakenfold
The music industry is dominated by guys. I work with men 98 percent of the time - producers, arrangers, musicians, engineers. -- Shakira
I guarantee you, yoga will compete with computers, music, sports, automobiles, the drug industry. Yoga will take over the world! -- Bikram Choudhury
I've admired Alicia Keys since before I got into the music industry, just everything she represents as a female artist. -- Melanie Fiona
In the music industry it's just you're either Black or white, and this is the box you get put in. -- India.Arie
Music is the only industry where you don't need to know what you're doing to get ahead. Well, that and politics. -- Gene Simmons
The sort of commercial parameters of classical music changed after the [World War II] , and the whole industry became more backward-looking. -- Esa-Pekka Salonen
On the aesthetic level, decolonized music presents itself as a direct antagonist to the traditional values promoted by the culture industry. -- Bocafloja
Roc Nation is such an incredible, unique team, especially in the music industry. Everyone genuinely loves and cares about each other. -- Rita Ora
Most of the reggae awareness is still among music industry people and people who are already into all types of music. -- Billy Gibbons
The bands you like and know that are French are always outsiders in the French music industry - Daft Punk, Air. -- Laurent Brancowitz
The movie industry is one big collaboration. Music gives me that freedom to create things straight from my heart and my mind. -- Ice Cube
The X Factor' is great entertainment, but it doesn't prepare people for getting chewed up and spat out by the music industry. -- Sophie Ellis-Bextor
The X Factor' is great entertainment, but it doesn't prepare people for getting chewed up and spat out by the music industry. -- Sophie Ellis-Bextor
I think to find an escape route out of a music industry that is becoming more and more focused on making money. -- Jens Lekman
Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs. -- Kara DioGuardi
The music industry doesn't exist the way it used to. You'll never have another star like the stars of the '90s. -- Mika
One of the things I haven't been ready for is how male-dominated the music industry is. I just didn't have a clue. -- Laura Mvula
When the music business failed to embrace the Internet, I thought it was game, set and match for the industry, and I quit. -- Tony Fernandes

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