Quotes About Industry

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

I think there's good music out there. I just think that radio stations don't play it.

I guess now music is so saturated and so microwaved. It's, like, 15 minutes in the microwave and boom, you've got something. Nobody's putting passion or any thought behind it anymore.

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.

This isn't about fans, greed or money. It's about being morally right or wrong. Nobody is governing the way music gets from artists to fans. It's all running amok.

We've got to protect the music and make sure it never gets exploited.

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.

What I would argue in my defence is that shows like Britain's Got Talent and The X Factor have actually got people more interested in music again and are sending more people into record stores.

I'd rather kill myself than work in the music industry today.

A lot of people don't know about music, but buy records. A lot of people that know about music can't afford to buy records.

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

The music industry is really funny, when you have a hit record, everyone knows who are you, everyone wants to do duets with you, then if you have a miss, people suffer from amnesia.

Luckily almost no one buys music anymore, so selling music doesn't really affect any of my professional decisions.

Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.

When you think of Napster, you think of music. But the first thing that struck me was that this was an important case not only for the music industry but for the whole Internet.

When I was growing up and wanted to be a musician, the fantasy that I had of what the music industry was is so wrong.

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

I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.

There's a lot of ideology about "free", that we can have free services, free content, it's one of the reasons why the music industry which I defend has been decimated.

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.

Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.