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My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business. -- Norman Granz
You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage. -- Herb Alpert
I decided to combine my musical background, business education and creative abilities - and go into the record business. -- Alan W. Livingston
But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different. -- Erykah Badu
The record business has always mystified me. Sometimes there are reasons why things sell or don't sell that can't be understood by mere mortals. -- Paul Shaffer
Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition. -- T Bone Burnett
I guess that my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did was the biggest record that I'll ever have. -- Alex Chilton
I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today. -- Tony Bennett
Eventually, when I sell enough units, as they say in the record business, I will stop touring. I'll concentrate on what I like to do... stay in the studio. -- Al Jourgensen
People in the record business would say, Well, Pras, you know, you haven't been out in a while, maybe you should get today's hottest producer or rapper to do something. -- Pras Michel
In my career, people in the record business have been rockin' in the same ol' boat. They all crooks - I'll say it clear and loud - especially the big ones. -- John Lee Hooker
I made an enormous amount of money in the record business as a result of owning so much of what I was doing... I owned all those albums and continued to own my catalog. -- Lou Adler
The difference between me and other people in my generation is instead of saying the Internet's killing the record business, I say, 'Who cares about the record business, the Internet is enhancing music.' -- Daryl Hall
In this age when people expect to get their music for free, we have to work out how we can protect the rights of creative artists so they are compensated fairly and that the record business itself remains sound and healthy. -- Clive Davis
He asked my girlfriend if we could come over and sing some of the songs that we had written, which we did. After he heard the songs, he said that he knew someone in the record business by the name of Bob Shad. -- Phil Harris
Because of the way the record business has kind of stumbled and disintegrated, in a way, you're as likely to sell records at your merch table at your gigs as you are to sell them in a regular record outlet or even online. -- Todd Rundgren
The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem. -- T Bone Burnett
When you win a Grammy... you're thinking about you winning. It is amazing. Your peers and folks in the record business are saying, 'This is what we think of you.' And that's why the Grammy will always be, to me, the ultimate in what you get as far as a music trophy, because it is the one. -- Yolanda Adams
You're starting to see new record companies and business models taking shape, but it takes time. -- Simon Le Bon
I used to run record companies, and I went to the advertising business at 29 years old. -- Steve Stoute
I just know that, right now, ... the biggest record selling business there is is rock and roll. -- Elvis Presley
Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record. -- Nile Rodgers
The Internet has killed the traditional record business, but it's given back in the way of instant access. -- James Young
Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many. -- Giorgio Moroder
Rock n' roll unchained a nation and revolutionized radio and the record industry, not to mention the motion picture business. -- Henry Rollins
I tried acting and all of the arts, I even put out a record album, but what I like the most is business. -- Beverly Johnson
I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company. -- Don Henley
We're probably doing better business than we thought we would do especially considering the disappointing way the record company has handled the album. -- Rick Allen
A lot of record company people, even though they're our age, want to be perceived as young hip guys, and they're hurting the business. -- John Mellencamp
Everybody raps. We rap to make money. We do business. Ain't no other record company out there that sold as many records as we did. -- Tupac Shakur
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These record companies are going to be going out of business pretty soon, because people are just going to be downloading what they want to hear. -- Lester Bowie
My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business. -- Harry Houdini
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. -- Glenn Frey
I guess my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did, was the biggest record that I'll ever have. -- Alex Chilton
I hate how I've had the mantle set on my shoulders as being against the record label. We've had some issues, but that is the nature of business. -- Sheryl Crow
I think now the music is good. I tell people all the time who like to be in the music business you got to have a hit record. -- Master P
Here's the tragedy of the modern record business: It's radio. If you're not on radio, nobody really is going to hear you or see you or care about you. -- Shirley Manson
One would think that the record of already existing regulatory agencies is sufficiently eloquent in showing that it is Big Business that does the regulating rather than vice versa . -- Paul A. Baran
The difference between me and other people in my generation is instead of saying the Internet's killing the record business, I say, 'Who cares about the record business, the Internet is enhancing music. -- Daryl Hall

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