1.
Money had never been the main thing for me. It's the legacy that was important.
Berry Gordy
2.
If this company is about anything, it's about discipline and staying focused.
Jimmy Iovine
3.
Just because it happened to you, doesn't mean it's interesting.
Dennis Hopper
4.
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.
Bruce Springsteen
5.
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.
Lionel Richie
6.
I never had the feeling I ever had to make a dime doing anything.
Rick Rubin
7.
Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.
John Oates
8.
My mom nor my father never pushed me into the music business. I always did it because I wanted to.
Hank Williams III
9.
The music business is not a good place for people who don't know things.
Mary J. Blige
10.
A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.
Loretta Lynn
11.
I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.
Nat King Cole
12.
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.
Larry Mullen, Jr.
13.
Education is extremely important, especially in my business, the music business.
Ludacris
14.
When I was 17 years old, I was in the music business.
Scott Caan
15.
It's a small percentile of people who see one dime out of the music business.
Chad Kroeger
16.
I wish there had been a music business 101 course I could have taken.
Kurt Cobain
17.
I want to hear the word 'cherish' about 5 times.
Clive Davis
19.
The music business can be very cold. And it doesn't honor its elders.
Brenda Lee
20.
You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.
Rod Stewart
21.
You've gotta be business savvy really, or else you get the piss taken out of you.
Melanie Brown
22.
I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.
Patti Smith
23.
I think Sean Parker damaged the music business with Napster.
Curtis Jackson
24.
I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have.
Ginger Baker
25.
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.
Curtis Jackson
26.
I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business.
Jeff Healey
27.
It's magazines like HITS that have to label things.
Nina Gordon
28.
The music business, or what`s left of it, is obviously a very - it`s like a wild west now.
Lars Ulrich
29.
Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time.
Linda Barnes
30.
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.
Tony Parsons
32.
I'm a survivor in a business that constantly rejects you.
Dick Clark
33.
I owe Elvis my career, and the entire music business owes him it's lifeline.
Cliff Richard
35.
I'm still as fascinated with the music business as ever. I'd love to do an electronic album like Prodigy or Underworld. I really like that sort of music.
Elton John
36.
Being in the music business is a totally different industry right there.
Christina Milian
37.
I've always treated the music business as a business.
Simon Cowell
38.
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.
Cat Stevens
39.
The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn't happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it.
Ben Folds
40.
The music business is really a spiritual business whether we know it or not.
Kurtis Blow
41.
The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.
Patrick Stump
42.
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.
Todd Rundgren
43.
But the music business is no more about truth on the outside of the Christian ghetto than it is on the inside.
Mark Heard
44.
I have major respect for Kenny Chesney and Carrie Underwood and Sugarland. They are wonderful. They're superstars in the music business.
Darius Rucker
45.
My advice to anyone wanting to get into the music business, is always be ready to learn and remain humble.
Rayvon Owen
46.
The music business doesn't interest me anymore.
Lou Reed
47.
There's nothing that can prepare you for fame and for the music business at any point in history.
Terry Bozzio
48.
I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades.
Peter Asher
49.
Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
Taylor Hackford
50.
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.
Cheyenne Kimball