Quotes About Music

I don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot - the methods of releasing music.

I don't write songs for myself anymore. I only write songs on assignment. It's purely a business, but it is still so important to me emotionally.

Didn't want to be a star, wanted just to play guitar in this cockamamie business.

There's no business like show business.

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

I don't even listen to the records after they come out. It's outlawed in my house. My wife and my kids can't play any of my music around me. Once it comes out, for me, it's just business. Numbers.

Now I'm on the rise, doin' business with my guys. Visions realize, music [your craft] affected lives. A gift from the skies, to be recognized, I'm keeping my eye on the people, that's the prize

I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash.

You know, there's a big lie in this business. The lie is that it's okay to go out in flames. But that doesn't do anybody much good. I may be wrong, but I think Hendrix was trying to come around.

Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money.

I just know that, right now, ... the biggest record selling business there is is rock and roll.

The record company really pissed me off when they told me to lose weight. I couldn't be bothered with looking a certain way. So I left the business. I don't regret it.

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.

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

We have never seen a career like George Strait's in this business, and I venture to say we never will again. He has handled things amazingly well.

I am a ham. I've no business being rock 'n' roll. I've said it over and over again that I'm a classical composer, dishevelling my personality by dabbling in rock 'n' roll.

I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.

Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.

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

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.

Music is kind of a strange business, and it's too weird of a job to have mean, conniving people around.

I hate to say Napster kind of killed our business, but what can I tell ya?

I recorded with Sinatra, but the recording business is a very strange strata right now.

I'm excited about the old songs. That's a nice place to be after grinding out the music business for twenty years.