Quotes About Industry

Especially as an artist who has been signed to one of the majors throughout my last ten years, you don't always get to write your own music.

I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

Freddy Demann (Shakira's Manager) is a man that knows the world of music. And I know that I am in good hands.

My experience in the music industry made me very thick-skinned. Your art is something very personal and there's never a shortage of critics when it comes to art.

I love the music business very much.

There's no doubt that the ready availability of music online has created a thousand more opportunities than it's destroyed.

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.

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.

The music industry isn't converging toward dance music. Dance music is dance music. It's been around since disco - and way before disco. But there's different versions of dance music.

Right now I'm listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT'S MY JOB.

We're not a band because we're trying to be the Mother Teresas of the music industry, out to serve everybody. We're a band first and foremost because we love playing pop music.

Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.

Most of the reggae awareness is still among music industry people and people who are already into all types of music.

It used to be that creative music was most of the music that you heard back in the '30s and '40s, and now it's like 3 percent. So, its kind of a struggle getttin' it out there.

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.

You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.

The music industry was invented, like, 100 years ago. I'm talking about the goddess Matangi, who invented music 5,000 years ago. She was the only thing that inspired me.

The music business is really, really small. The real music is becoming almost extinct, if you don't stay true to who you are.

I think now the music is good. I tell people all the time who like to be in the music business you got to have a hit record.

I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different.

If we think about things having multiple lives, cradle to cradle, we could design things that can go back to either nature or back to industry forever.

To think, we have the garment industry instead of nature to thank for the zipper concept when it would have come in so handy for childbirth.

The whole cable-TV original programming just changed the nature of television.