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I had received some minor indie label interest when I was 14 after I was in a schools music competition thing in NZ called 'Rockquest', but I knew it wasn't the right time and that I wasn't good enough and needed to concentrate on school. -- Brooke Fraser
I'm treating country music like it's a sport. I'm looking at where my competition is and realized I needed to work on my songwriting. -- Kip Moore
DJs are in incredible competition, musically. And they are the most musically creative and sensitive people in all the music charts. I am amazed how they are. -- Yoko Ono
I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there. -- Adam Lambert
Music is not a contest, it's not a competition, so giving out trophies seems a little bit like the sporting world I left behind when I was a kid. -- Dave Pirner
Every child should try everything: sport, music, art, mathematics; they can do it all. Copying and competition are now seen as twin evils, but they are both useful tools. -- Tony Buzan
I had 12 years of classical music as a child, playing piano competitions as a teenager, playing in blues bands and rock 'n' roll bands, country and jazz bands. I played in about any situation. -- Ronnie Milsap
During 'Idol,' I wasn't expecting anything. I just wanted to survive the competition, but my album and my music are a big part of who I am. Hopefully it translates well and I keep growing as an artist. -- Jessica Sanchez
Christine Bass was my high school music teacher. She took a program on its last legs and within a few years turned into one of the best programs in the country. Our high school dominated national choir competitions all through her 20-plus year tenure. -- Aaron Lazar
I started classical and operatic lessons when I was 8 and become an operatic singer and went to competition. I write my own music. A lot of the songs, growing up, I was into writing dark stories and poems, and one day I started putting melodies to them. -- Cassie Steele
The best part of the high school in Hastings must have been the Music Department. Its orchestra and concert band did well in county competitions, and the dance band formed by its students was the best in the region. I played lead trumpet in all of them. -- Edmund Phelps
Reggae, oh man. It's the ultimate music. The positivity. The musicality. The whole cultural expressionism of it. The danceability. Just the cool factor. The melody factor. Some of it comes from a religious place. If there were a competition of who makes the best religious music, it would definitely be the Rastafarian reggae. -- Lupe Fiasco
If you ever want to know why I'm not on a record label, look at 'The X Factor!' Honestly, of all the people that strive to break barriers in music and do good things and write great lyrics, not one of them would ever pass the first round on any of these competitions. -- John Lydon
These are very difficult times for new artists. Back in the day, a hit song could really seep into a person's DNA with radio and MTV. A hit today is not the same as a hit twenty years ago. Now there is so much competition, it is very hard to reach the people. The music scene is so overly saturated. There are no gatekeepers like there used to be. -- Vivian Campbell
In the music industry, you are in competition with everyone. -- Mandy Moore
The moment one brings competition into music, the soul is lost. -- Jagjit Singh
Everyone faces challenges from the fierce competition as well as the manipulative crooks that are rampant throughout the music business. -- Wendy Starland
There's no difference in dealing with the music business with the majors than any other competition. The music business is way more cutthroat than any other business. -- Suge Knight

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