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.
It's a small percentile of people who see one dime out of the music business.
Chad Kroeger
15.
When I was 17 years old, I was in the music business.
Scott Caan
16.
You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.
Rod Stewart
17.
I think Sean Parker damaged the music business with Napster.
Curtis Jackson
18.
You've gotta be business savvy really, or else you get the piss taken out of you.
Melanie Brown
19.
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
20.
I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have.
Ginger Baker
21.
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
22.
I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business.
Jeff Healey
23.
It's magazines like HITS that have to label things.
Nina Gordon
24.
I wish there had been a music business 101 course I could have taken.
Kurt Cobain
25.
I want to hear the word 'cherish' about 5 times.
Clive Davis
27.
The music business can be very cold. And it doesn't honor its elders.
Brenda Lee
28.
The music business, or what`s left of it, is obviously a very - it`s like a wild west now.
Lars Ulrich
29.
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
30.
Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time.
Linda Barnes
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.
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
36.
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
37.
But the music business is no more about truth on the outside of the Christian ghetto than it is on the inside.
Mark Heard
38.
I have major respect for Kenny Chesney and Carrie Underwood and Sugarland. They are wonderful. They're superstars in the music business.
Darius Rucker
39.
My advice to anyone wanting to get into the music business, is always be ready to learn and remain humble.
Rayvon Owen
40.
The music business doesn't interest me anymore.
Lou Reed
41.
There's nothing that can prepare you for fame and for the music business at any point in history.
Terry Bozzio
42.
Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
Taylor Hackford
43.
I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades.
Peter Asher
44.
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
45.
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.
Rick DeJesus
46.
Who would want to break into [the music business]? It's like a bank that's already been robbed.
Randy Newman
47.
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
48.
I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.
Elvis Presley
49.
I'm just trying to survive and stay relevant! That's all anyone in the music business can ask for.
Christopher Tin
50.
If you had ever heard my album you would know that I could never consider the music business!
Dwayne Hickman