“If you're frustrated by a music industry that seems too hard to break into, you're not alone. The BIG secret is information...It's not who you know, it's what you know. People who know how to put their music out make money. People who don't know how, have to beg others to help them. It's as simple as that. HipHopBiz.com provides the information people like you have been using since 1992 to release their own music.” PeopleIfsKnowsHas BeensHardHelpingBigsSeemsSimpleSecretBreakKnow HowInformationLike YouIndustryReleaseMaking MoneyFrustratedNot AloneMusic IndustryWho You Know Author:Walt F. J. Goodridge
“People don't know how heavily involved I am in my own career. I'm on 15 to 25 conference calls every few days strategizing with my team. I think a lot of artists sit back and have it done for them. Sometimes as women in the industry - if you're sexy or like doing sexy things - some people subconsciously negate your brain. They think you're stupid.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsSometimesDoneArtistMy OwnBrainCareersKnow HowTeamStupidIndustryInvolvedSexyConferencesYou Re StupidConference Calls Author:Nicki Minaj
“You gotta remember: we're musicians we're just crazy people who can't get along sometimes. I've definitely come to the table with my knife in my pocket a couple of times; you know how it is. It's part of being human. Now add fame and money and all that rock and roll craziness to it - we're lucky we don't eat each other in this industry!” PeopleKnowsHumansSometimesRememberKnow HowCrazyRocksIndustryCoupleFameLuckyMusicianTablesAddPocketsKnivesRock And RollBeing HumanCrazinessCrazy People Author:Corey Taylor
“If the World War [I] demonstrated anything it was that government ownership is fraught with the gravest dangers and usually leads to disaster. Take Britain. The two problems which have caused the greatest trouble since the war ended have been transportation and coal. The government seized both industries when the war broke out. It got them into such a hopeless mess that it does not know how to turn [In] coal; the government now realizes, it took hold of the tail of a wild animal and is afraid to let go.” IfsKnowsWorldDoeHas BeensTwoWarProblemGovernmentTurnsRealizingAnimalKnow HowTroubleDangerIndustryLetting GoDisasterMessBrokeWar Of The WorldsBritainHopelessWorld War IOwnershipTailsCoalTransportationWild Animal Author:B. C. Forbes
“Acting is something that I couldn't recommend to anyone because the odds of it working out are so insane. I don't know how it worked out for me. I had no connections to this industry. I had no ins anywhere.” KnowsActingKnow HowIndustryConnectionsWork OutInsaneOdds Author:Kat Dennings
“Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They don't know how to steal!” KnowsKnow HowIndustryStealingCommerceStolen Author:Thomas A. Edison
“It is not simply that these two cities are perched side by side at the edge of the Pacific; it is that adolescence sits next to middle age, and they don't know how to relate to each other. In a way, these two cities exist in different centuries. San Diego is a post-industrial city talking about settling down, slowing down, building clean industry. Tijuana is a preindustrial city talking about changing, moving forward, growing. Yet they form a single metropolitan area.” KnowsWayTwoDifferentAgeMovingFormNextSidesCitiesTalkingKnow HowGrowingMiddleCenturyBuildingIndustryAreasCleanEdgesMoving ForwardPostsRelateSettlingAdolescenceSlow DownMiddle AgesPacificSettling DownSlowingSan DiegoMetropolitanTijuana Author:Richard Rodriguez
“But then male directors also have a hard time getting their movies made... not as hard as women but it's a tough time for any movie this size. And that particular movie [The Hurt Locker] was so specific. It couldn't hurt, of course, and I'm really glad for her, but I don't know how much it will change things, if at all. The film industry is still so sexist.” IfsKnowsMadeStillsHardFilmCoursesHurtKnow HowParticularIndustryDirectorsToughMalesSizeGladHard TimesTough TimesSexistFilm IndustryLockersHurt Locker Author:Nicole Holofcener
“If the white man can come here uneducated and as an immigrant, and within 10 or 15 years set up an industry that provides job opportunities and educational opportunities for black people, then if the black man, the black leadership, who has access to all of this money and has all of these degrees today, can't use his talent and his know-how to set up business opportunities, job opportunities, housing opportunities for the black people the same as the white leaders have done for white people, then these black leaders need to get off the boat.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenNeedsYearsDoneUseTodayJobsOpportunityBlackWhiteLeaderKnow HowTalentIndustryDegreesEducationalAccessBoatImmigrantsBlack PeopleWhite ManHousingUneducatedBusiness OpportunityJob Opportunities Author:Malcolm X