Quotes About Business

I wanted to be great. And I loved Nashville, so that made it easy. I loved the music business. It made it easy for me to stay and make a life here.

You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.

That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.

I'd fired anyone who was involved with Creed. I didn't want anything to do with the music business. The entire press and industry hated me, so what was the point?

The one thing about the music business is that there is no rulebook. It's not like the NFL or something where there's four downs to get ten yards or baseball where it's three strikes and you're out.

The music business is strictly business.

I think Sean Parker damaged the music business with Napster.

I couldn't concentrate on music. So I made the choice to give up my career as a musician in the frontline to deal with the business.

I think it's a reflection of the music business in general, which to me seems very fragmented.

I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.

The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.

Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios.

I'm a survivor in a business that constantly rejects you.

The music business is just the worst as far as Machiavellian, sharky, evil games going on, as far as manipulation.

As I've gotten older, I have gotten a lot better at finding the pleasures of making music despite the business of it.

Creating art (music, books, films, etc.) can be beautiful and liberating, but trying to sell art, well, that is the movie business. There are few winners, and lots and lots of losers.

I hate that sense of entitlement or the sense of business crawling into playing music.

As an improvising musician, I am not in the music business, I am not in the creativity business; I am in the surrender business.

This is a business built on promotion. We've been giving music away to radio stations for 30 years.

But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.

I attended a post-college program in L.A. for Music Business and Production. Took several courses involving Music Production, Arrangement, and Songwriting.

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.

The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing.

I was always a singer. But I was always focused on being an actor as my trade. Music I do just for me. The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible.