Quotes About Industry

I managed to make an identity as a playback singer in the industry; I thought I'll never be able to do that.

It's very challenging to be a playback singer in Bollywood.

I am the fastest singer in our industry.

The Blossoms were actually the first black background singers that did recording sessions in California, but we had to start giving work away. We just couldn't do it all.

I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.

Our music industry is male-driven. There are fewer opportunities for female singers.

Right from my first film, I've introduced several singers and lyricists to the industry.

When I joined the music scene, a lot of big-ticket singers were not getting good work... It was a lean phase.

It's good that Bollywood is changing and directors are trying out Pakistani singers as composers.

Hindi film music has always been completely driven by the plot. We singers never had any say in compositions.

There's a lot of great singers out here.

I know Becky G, Natti Natasha, and other Latina singers, we have been working many, many years and now we have the opportunity to show what we have, to show what we have been doing for many years. Great things are happening for women in the Latin music industry.

Today's singers don't have the time and are very restless and they want to record and just run away.

Most of the bands that come out of L.A. now have singers that all sound like Daffy Duck.

There will always be some kid who's the new Kurt Cobain writing great lyrics and singing from his soul. The problem is they're not marketing that anymore or putting it out there.

Jaan would send me songs and ask me what I thought about his singing. I have always encouraged him, and I always will. He asked me to call a few industry people who I know. I called Mukesh Bhattji, Ramesh Tauraniji and a few others, and Jaan went to meet them, but now it's up to them if they want to give him work.

There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry.

I remember when I got into movies, the only way singers could be heard was to through playback singing in movies. Then gradually came the music companies promoting independent pop singers.

I really didn't like the songs that were being offered to me. There was no melody and no meaning to them. That's why I have not been singing in Bollywood for a while.

Lost in a crowd of greats, not a single Oscar. That's showbiz.

I think that the health care industry is so complex that it doesn't necessarily start with a single killer app. You go back to the early days of the personal computer - when I joined the industry, we really didn't know what the killer app was going to be.

Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections.

Every year, there's some band that plays guitar-oriented pop music that has a single, but for the most part, it's kind of relegated to the sidelines.

At the end of the day, when people say, 'Oh, she's an industry plant,' I'm like, 'No, I just have representation, like every single other artist you listen to.' I'm not the first person to get a manager.