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 never had the feeling I ever had to make a dime doing anything.
Rick Rubin
6.
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
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.
It's magazines like HITS that have to label things.
Nina Gordon
17.
I wish there had been a music business 101 course I could have taken.
Kurt Cobain
18.
I want to hear the word 'cherish' about 5 times.
Clive Davis
20.
The music business can be very cold. And it doesn't honor its elders.
Brenda Lee
21.
You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.
Rod Stewart
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.
You've gotta be business savvy really, or else you get the piss taken out of you.
Melanie Brown
25.
I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have.
Ginger Baker
26.
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
27.
I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business.
Jeff Healey
28.
I'm a survivor in a business that constantly rejects you.
Dick Clark
29.
I owe Elvis my career, and the entire music business owes him it's lifeline.
Cliff Richard
30.
The music business, or what`s left of it, is obviously a very - it`s like a wild west now.
Lars Ulrich
31.
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.
Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time.
Linda Barnes
35.
Who would want to break into [the music business]? It's like a bank that's already been robbed.
Randy Newman
36.
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.
Grant Hart
37.
I'm just trying to survive and stay relevant! That's all anyone in the music business can ask for.
Christopher Tin
38.
I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.
Elvis Presley
39.
If you had ever heard my album you would know that I could never consider the music business!
Dwayne Hickman
40.
It will be only a matter of time before the music business establishment completely folds.
Thom Yorke
41.
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
42.
Being in the music business is a totally different industry right there.
Christina Milian
43.
I've always treated the music business as a business.
Simon Cowell
44.
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
45.
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
46.
The music business is really a spiritual business whether we know it or not.
Kurtis Blow
47.
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
48.
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
49.
But the music business is no more about truth on the outside of the Christian ghetto than it is on the inside.
Mark Heard
50.
I have major respect for Kenny Chesney and Carrie Underwood and Sugarland. They are wonderful. They're superstars in the music business.
Darius Rucker