Quotes About Competition

I've never been much of a trash-talker, and it probably goes back to playing driveway basketball when I was 12. It's never worked out for me. I've never flexed that muscle! It's not my style.

Acting is a sport - especially working with Mark Rylance. There is competition involved. I have to be muscular, challenging, get audiences on side. It's extraordinary how Globe audiences join in - it's like competing at an event - I love it.

A lot of times, I was about to get a role, but then somebody called. The father or mother would call and a starlet would get it. If somebody is with someone and the heroine is his muse or girlfriend, then she would get the role. All this has happened to me.

People in the music business say don't make too many records because they'll compete against one another.

The Philadelphia/New York world of the music business is a tough place to be.

I have known from the beginning one thing you need to know. That is, the music business is a business.

The truth is that the music business is mean and honest and brutal.

I don't think the music business is a very good business to be in.

The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world.

The music industry is very small.

The music industry is a very rough industry. Many years ago, I think it was even rougher in the sense that a lot of it was predicated on image.

The music industry really is a meritocracy on a creative level.

I thought that the music industry was going to be pretty easy - getting features and stuff - and everyone was going to be nice. But I realized that it's really, really hard to get features.

Singing rock n' roll - they called it singing for the devil. But we all wanted an opportunity to compete in the music industry, and that was the opportunity.

The machinery of the music industry is that you put something into it and it could be chewed up.

The hardest part about the music industry for anyone is getting into the ears of the world.

I feel that in the music industry there are so many artists it's easy to be forgotten because it's so cluttered.

The music scene is more competitive in the States.

I grew up playing a lot of sports and doing musical theater.

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.

A lot of people assume that musicians are comrades by nature. It's cutthroat like anything else.

I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not.

Serious musicians are finding it harder and harder to have a voice in the world of music these days.

Folk musicians have a lot of the same self-importance, but they're way more cruel and jealous than rock musicians - I know this for a fact because I used to be a folk musician.