Quotes About Business

I hate the business part of music. Music is just like the streets. There's loyal and disloyal people, people saying one thing and then don't do it.

Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.

Strategies are great, business models are great, but the reality is your music has to mean something to people.

The best decision I ever made, period, was to get into the music business.

I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism.

The music business would be much better, for the youth and the kids, if they start hiring employees that understand the kids.

The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.

My biggest problem with the retirement thing was I'd be leaving the part of this business that I enjoy the most... the entertaining part, being on stage and seeing how the music affects people.

I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound and knowing the music business the way I do - all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.

If you want to make money in music, get into the band uniform business.

I sat down with my long time business partner and Rap-A-Lot CEO James Prince to review the music that we had and quickly came up with an outstanding track list.

Making music has gotten easier; selling it has gotten harder. Making music has been democratized, but the market is in the hands of fascists.

The music business is not a good place for people who don't know things.

I like the music. I love it & live it in fact. But for me the business part of music just plain stinks.

The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.

Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works.

I was 13 and my mom was a librarian so I told her to check out every music book she could possibly find. I wanted to know the business part of being in the music business.

Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.

It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads.

It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style.

Hollywood is about playing the game, and I can't think of any successful actresses who didn't play the game. There's a lot more renegades in the music business, from Patti Smith to Janis Joplin.

It's a small percentile of people who see one dime out of the music business.

A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.

The music business used to carry a certain amount of brotherly love, but it isn't that way now.