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“The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.”

“I think the Grammys are nothing more than some gigantic promotional machine for the music industry. They cater to a low intellect and they feed the masses. They don't honor the arts or the artist for what he created. It's the music business celebrating itself.”

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Author:Maynard James Keenan

“Technological change is discontinuous. The monks in their scriptoria did not invent the printing press, horse breeders did not invent the motorcar, and the music industry did not invent the iPod or launch iTunes.”

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Author:Jason Epstein

“The music industry has been hijacked by corporate interests, but the way music affects people and resonates with them hasn't changed.”

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Author:Michael Franti

“By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum”

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Author:Steve Albini

“At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.”

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Author:Bernice Johnson Reagon

“The games industry is already bigger than the music industry, and it's mainly directed at teenage boys.”

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Author:Thomas Dolby

“I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.”

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Author:Van Morrison

“And I just pray that god gives me longevity in the music industry.”

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Author:Ruben Studdard

“I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.”

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Author:Isaac Hanson

“But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.”

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Author:Isaac Hanson

“The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.”

“I think we're returning to more of the original vibration of music and creativity through the removal of this distortion called the music industry. That's where we're heading. And it'll cut out a lot of music if people ever expected to make money.”

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Author:Jane Siberry

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

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Author:David Geffen

“It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy.”

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Author:Chubby Checker

“The fact that people still know us is, in my opinion, a result of our music and of the big money that runs the music industry today. The people who control the industry are accountants who recycle everything in new, nostalgic packages, and everything else, to make more money.”

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Author:Rick Wright

“The music industry is an interesting lens through which to look at change, because it has had such a difficult time adjusting to the digital age.”

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Author:Jennifer Egan

“Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs.”

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Author:Kara DioGuardi

“No one really buys records anymore. You can look at sales and do that math real quick. Unfortunately, it's fast food in the music industry. People don't ingest full records anymore.”

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Author:Tommy Lee

“I love music, so if I wasn't singing, I would probably still be working in the music industry. I love songwriting, so I'd probably be a songwriter.”

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Author:Trey Songz

“I just want to do films 'cause I like being someone else. My music is kind of like my diary. I'll always do that... I just feel like the music industry isn't as positive as I'd like it to be.”

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Author:Miley Cyrus

“Piracy is important to talk about. It's harming the music industry. It hurts all of us. The public needs to understand every time they buy a pirated CD, they hurt the industry. The only ones who can change that are the fans and the people that buy CDs. It's everybody's responsibility to prevent it.”

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Author:Luis Miguel

“Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money, they should take a look at some of their six-figure executive expense accounts. All those lawsuits can't be cheap, either.”

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Author:Jeff Tweedy

“When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.”

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Author:Janelle Monae

“This civil action is another case of a tragedy that has become all too familiar in the music industry: a business manager and professional advisers exploit an immensely talented artist's loyalty and trust through greed, self-dealing, concealment, knowing misrepresentation and reckless disregard for professional fiduciary duties.”

“In the music industry, you meet some not very nice people, some very strange characters.”

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Author:Midge Ure

“Whenever I have time, I try to get in the studio and write, whether it's for me or other artists or my catalog of music. It's definitely one of my favorite parts of the music industry.”

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Author:Jesse McCartney

“I started selling corn dogs, ended up in the music industry. That's how it all started.”

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Author:Ryan Tedder

“I believe that the art market is in a place similar to the music industry in 2005. Big changes are coming and the art market will most likely be very different in ten years. However, if you are the art equivalent of Van Halen, you don't really have to change anything. But if you are not Van Halen, then it is time to figure how to adapt to all the changes.”

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Author:Mark Edward

“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.”

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Author:David Boies

“Downloadable music is the biggest musical phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is slow to come to grips with that.”

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Author:Chuck D

“I think too much of the music industry is for the lawyer and accountant mentality.”

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Author:Chuck D

“The Internet was a saving grace for promoting and exposing, and even creating. It's a parallel world to the music industry that already exists, and I'm glad to be a part of it.”

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Author:Chuck D

“Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.”

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Author:Gus Van Sant

“I've never been in the music industry, only acting.”

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Author:Victoria Jackson

“I dedicated almost 12 years to the music industry before having children.”

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Author:Monica Denise Brown

“The X Factor' is great entertainment, but it doesn't prepare people for getting chewed up and spat out by the music industry.”

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Author:Sophie Ellis Bextor

“Everything about the music industry takes away from you as an artist. They're always wondering what the next thing is: 'What do you have?' It's a very introverted process.”

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Author:Gary Allan

“I actually think that bass is probably the instrument that has evolved in a quantum leap compared to other instruments. It's the instrument that's evolved the most, especially with how it's perceived. And even how it's played, and how it's viewed from a point of view of commerce, like with the music industry.”

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Author:Stanley Clarke

“Well, the music industry is littered with actors who belatedly came to singing.”

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Author:Jeff Daniels

“It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening to more music than ever and from a greater diversity of artists.”

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Author:Daniel Ek

“There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.”

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Author:Daniel Ek

“I've admired Alicia Keys since before I got into the music industry, just everything she represents as a female artist.”

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Author:Melanie Fiona

“I still don't understand the music industry that much. Everything I learned was from hanging out with rock musicians in studios. I certainly have respect for those who make music their livelihood.”

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Author:Brendan Fraser

“Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.”

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Author:Dan Farmer

“I love getting into a studio with a bunch of friends. When the day's done, we've made something. We recognize that we're from different walks of the music industry, and there's no reason we shouldn't be collaborating. That's what I'm trying to create with thenewno2 - a sense of community.”

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Author:Dhani Harrison

“If you look at the market cap increase in Apple since it created the iPod versus what's happened to the music industry, you have to say Apple got the better part of that deal.”

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Author:Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

“I feel pretty used by the music industry, in that my contracts are written in such a way that I don't get paid. And that makes me wanna quit working for whoever thinks it is that I work for them. But I've clearly got a job that I can't quit.”

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Author:Jamey Johnson

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