Music Business Quotes

Money had never been the main thing for me. It's the legacy that was important.

If this company is about anything, it's about discipline and staying focused.

Just because it happened to you, doesn't mean it's interesting.

Elvis Presley is all there is. There just ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with Elvis. He wrote the book. He is everything to do and not to do in the music business.

I just had to find all my friends that used to be in the business. As I say, the music business didn't die, it just moved to Nashville.

I never had the feeling I ever had to make a dime doing anything.

Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.

My mom nor my father never pushed me into the music business. I always did it because I wanted to.

The music business is not a good place for people who don't know things.

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.

Education is extremely important, especially in my business, the music business.

When I was 17 years old, I was in the music business.

It's a small percentile of people who see one dime out of the music business.

The music business is strictly business.

The music business can be very cold. And it doesn't honor its elders.

You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.

You've gotta be business savvy really, or else you get the piss taken out of you.

I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.

I think Sean Parker damaged the music business with Napster.

I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have.

If I don't make music I'm going back to the hood. I'll sell crack. I'm gonna go back to sell crack if I can't make it in the music business and that's what I was doing before that.

I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business.

It's magazines like HITS that have to label things.

I wish there had been a music business 101 course I could have taken.

I want to hear the word 'cherish' about 5 times.

The music business, or what`s left of it, is obviously a very - it`s like a wild west now.

Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time.

When you are a journalist in the music business, as I was, you end up dying or going to the gym - I chose the gym.

He took my music, but he gave me my name.

I'm a survivor in a business that constantly rejects you.

I owe Elvis my career, and the entire music business owes him it's lifeline.

I love the music business very much.

I suppose that by being absent from the music business, it appeared that I just dropped out, but really I never did. I was continuously working and doing various things.

The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn't happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it.

The music business is really a spiritual business whether we know it or not.

The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.

Many of us would probably not be in the music business - or never would have been in the music business - had The Beatles not demonstrated that this kind of music, or this kind of performance, was actually viable as a career alternative.

But the music business is no more about truth on the outside of the Christian ghetto than it is on the inside.

I have major respect for Kenny Chesney and Carrie Underwood and Sugarland. They are wonderful. They're superstars in the music business.

My advice to anyone wanting to get into the music business, is always be ready to learn and remain humble.

The music business doesn't interest me anymore.

There's nothing that can prepare you for fame and for the music business at any point in history.

I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades.

Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.

I never even went to high school because I went straight from middle school into the music business. I don't really know what it is supposed to be like.

I think I am like everyone else in the music business these days - you have to adjust to the times and deliver whatever people want, and are using to consume the music.

Who would want to break into [the music business]? It's like a bank that's already been robbed.

I have a lot of dislike for the business end of the music business, particularly what they call shopping for a label. It can be a real stupid thing.