Quotes About Industry

If we truly want to achieve lasting economic growth, we need our businesses to do more business - and we need them to do it in America.

Ten, 15 years before, the Latin industry was singing Anglo music, trying to get an opportunity with them. Everything changed, and now around the world everyone is listening to our Latin music.

As far as I know, no money ever won in a lawsuit by IFPI or the RIAA has even gone to any actual artist.

Television can be quite corporatized: There's a pecking order and a process, and so many layers that it can take away some of the true creative spirit.

I never said I was leaving the entertainment industry.

I'm happy if my music is being downloaded, whether it's legally or illegally.

We always tell everyone that women's wrestling has always been told through the lens of a man because it's a male-dominated industry. It's never been told through the lens of a woman and we want to be able to tell that story.

When you make people a lot of money, it gives you leverage in Hollywood.

I usually license my stuff to a label. Make the album, license it to a big label and get it back after four years.

To me, being in fashion is about your work, not about facilitating a lifestyle.

Nobody can link the success of a movie with a particular artiste.

There's little money in theatre.

I've always seen myself as a working musician but now there's no money in records for the artist at all, it's all in live performance.

I don't know anything about politics or lobbying in the film world.

You're on set more when you produce an episode, and it's long hours, but you learn so much.

Unfortunately, we are part of an industry where if a man and woman have worked together for such a long period of time, they have to be linked up.

With movies, it always feels like such a long shot getting it made.

Jive never saw any value in me as a long-term artist. Even as I was doing it they were like, 'You're not really the kind of artist that we'd spend our money on.' They never saw the value of Too $hort and E-40.

I definitely feel a difference about my place in the industry. I feel like I have some longevity now.

I'm not in the loop; I don't know any actors, really, just the ones I work with.

So many of my friends are actors, and so many of them are great, and they're losing jobs to people who have never been in plays before; I understand that sometimes I'm part of the problem. But I'm trying to figure out how to balance it.

As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.

In the fashion world if you're successful, everyone loves you, and you have available every service. It's hard to walk away, except it wasn't hard for me. I had my mind completely made up.

It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don't have anything going on, there's really not much support.