“If I wanted to fight to make a better world racially, I wouldn't be in the music business. You dig, if I were going to be a freedom fighter music is the wrong field.” IfsWorldWantedFightingFieldsMusic IsFighterMusic BusinessFreedom Fighter Author:Chaka Khan
“Don't cheat yourself out of music. Music is one thing. The music business is another thing. Save enough of yourself to keep living anyway. Save enough joy in your heart to enjoy it. Let your reward be in the doing of it.” HeartEnoughJoyEnjoyBusinessMusicOne ThingMusicianMusic IsRewardsCheatingCheatMusic BusinessMusic IndustrySave YourselfCheating Yourself Author:Bill Withers
“The music business is really, really small. The real music is becoming almost extinct, if you don't stay true to who you are.” IfsRealBecomingMusic IsWho You AreMusic BusinessStay TrueReal Music Author:Mary J. Blige
“Some artists are told what to like and told definitions of what the music business is. That's a problem. Music is artistry, and you want your music heard, your act known. But artists don't know. They are ignorant the minute they sign a contract.” KnowsWantProblemArtistKnownHeardMinutesMusic IsDefinitionsIgnorantContractsMusic BusinessArtistry Author:Chuck D
“Music is what is going to save me," "On the bad days, when I have to look at the cold, hard facts of life, I see that this is not the music business I came up in and I have to be very, very objective and detached and say, 'what's good about it and what's bad about it?' Mostly, I'm finding it good that it's not the same old music business, because the music business I came up in really didn't advance anything I was doing, and I don't think it was particularly kind to a lot of artists.” ThinkingLooksKindHardFactsArtistColdFindingsMusic IsObjectivesBad DayMusic BusinessFacts Of LifeDetachedSave MeOld Music Author:Phoebe Snow
“The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.” FeelingsEnergyBusinessMusic IsMotivatedMusic Business Author:Erykah Badu
“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.” PeopleThinkingRecordsMusic IsMusic Business Author:Master P
“I think for us, we don't feel like the future of music is in the act of being a record company. We feel like the future of the music business is in empowering artists to have better and better tools to communicate with their fans. We want to be people who are saying to artists, "Look, you don't need that company over there to release your album. You can do it this way." Almost more of a band partnership than a label-artist relationship. Not about ownership of content, but about empowerment.” PeopleThinkingArtistMusic IsEmpowermentCommunicateEmpoweringPartnershipOwnershipYou Can Do ItMusic Business Author:Zac Hanson
“I used to practice piano for hours, and now, with a synthesizer, you can input the music and the machine perfects the song. That's why we have so many people in the music business who should be plumbers. They don't really understand music because they haven't been trained.” PeopleSongHoursMusic IsMusic BusinessPlumber Author:Quincy Jones
“There is a terrible thing that's been happening probably for the last 20 years or so and it's called the music business. And music isn't really business; it's work and you got to pay and you've got to buy your guitar or go into the studio. So there is a business side but when people say, "I'm going into the music business," it's not. It's about expression. It's about creativity. You don't join music, in my mind, to make money. You join it because it's in you; it's in your blood stream.” PeopleMindCreativityTerribleMusic IsMaking MoneyMusic Business Author:Gavin Friday
“Punishing people for listening to music is exactly the wrong way to protect the music business.” PeopleWayListeningProtectMusic IsListening To MusicMusic BusinessWrong Way Author:Moby