Quotes About Industry

The Indian music scene is completely dominated by Bollywood music. We need to create space for indi-pop music.

I don't think many people get second chances when it comes to the music scene.

It rests in the hands of 'Dreamgirls' and 'Hairspray.' If they're successful, we'll be back on track - people will continue to greenlight musicals. If they don't work, then you're going to see everyone go back to the way it was before 'Chicago.'

It's expensive to produce musicals on television.

I'd actually say that every musician is a human being, and that not everybody likes being social. But with music, there are all these ingredients to the business that have nothing to do with writing songs or playing an instrument.

I think it's just an awkward time right now to be a musician.

You can' t help being a musician because you've grown up with music, yet being one means being compared to your dad and being slated for it. But I really don't have the ambitions of most people going into the industry.

It's interesting, because as a musician, I don't feel like I need to be on the top of the pop charts.

There are so many times that, as a woman in the music industry, you're asked questions no male musician would ever be asked.

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

One of the best things about Kickstarter and crowdfunding and the collapse of the music business is a lot of artists like me have been forced to face our own weird mess about ourselves and what we thought it meant to become musicians.

I think that's one thing about the entertainment industry: Athletes want to be actors, and musicians want to be actors, so it all kind of mixes nice together.

You have gigantic companies feeding off musicians and artists because the artists need the exposure.

The catch in the industry is that if you want to get a picture made for little money, you have to get a big star. But the two are usually mutually exclusive.

I feel satisfied with my journey in the film industry.

I am happy with my journey in the Indian film industry.

I don't discuss my journey in the Hindi film industry since it is something personal to me.

I've been working in the music industry since I was 15 years old, and I feel like I've always been ahead of my time.

In my industry, everybody wants to know everything about you, and it's just dumb. I think the only way of maintaining some of that mystique is by not giving away too much about yourself. It has served me well so far. I never want to feel up for grabs.

Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there.

I don't believe two actresses can be best friends. It's an absolute myth.

For an industry that's built on science, the technology world sure has its share of myths.

My friend Liam Neeson has managed to carve out a great place in the industry for himself and is still doing action movies at 64 years old. He's my hero. I use him as a template. My middle kid, Liam, is named after him. He's one of the coolest guys in Hollywood.

Well, when I came to Hollywood, there were three names really of Latin actors, three or four names, maybe five. There was Raul Julia, Edward James Olmos, Andy Garcia, Antonio Banderas, Jimmy Smits. Now there's a lot.