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Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time.
The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.
I really worked with icons in the music business, which really had a strong effect on me. It wasn't just pick-up gigs.
Too often, the music business allowed third-party companies to innovate for us - and that simply does not work anymore.
The 'music industry' is not a term I use. I tend to concentrate on music, and the music business is something different.
You can do any number of things in the music business aside from trying to look like you're 25. To me it's embarrassing.
I thought I could get myself into the music business by doing paralegal work. I was just trying to get in any way I could.
When the music business failed to embrace the Internet, I thought it was game, set and match for the industry, and I quit.
All movies, when they're about the music business, tend to have a bit of a wide latitude in terms of how things really were.
I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.
The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.
Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.
Especially when I finish one of my songs I play it to my friends who are just normal people and not people in the music business.
In the music business, there's a lot of criticism and rejection. If you embrace it, you'll be better off when the adjustment comes.
Most people involved in the music business, and it's probably not just the music business... aren't necessarily people that I like.
I want to carry on in the music business and in television because it's basically a hobby and a passion that I actually get paid for.
I suppose we don't know that much about how the music business operates in the U.K., but from what I've heard, it's a pretty big deal.
The music business is the most childish business in the world. Nobody knows what they're selling or why, but they sell it if it works.
I just had to find all my friends that used to be in the business. As I say, the music business didn't die, it just moved to Nashville.
I was just tapped on the shoulder from above and told to write these songs, as opposed to wanting to be a success in the music business.
I have major respect for Kenny Chesney and Carrie Underwood and Sugarland. They are wonderful. They're superstars in the music business.
I'm an indie artist with major distribution, so one foot in the extreme major music business and one foot in the abyss of indie artists.
A lot of time, if you spend too much time in Nashville, songwriters get caught up in charts and numbers and the music business politics.
I came into this music business at 26 years old. I was a fully developed man at that point. At that age, I didn't have anything to prove.
People are gonna get tired of Linda Perry the producer, but I will always be in the music business. And I will always be successful in it.
When I get asked for advice for a young person starting in the music business, I tell them, 'Play every chance you get, and be real lucky.'
I'm not oriented by money, to be honest. Everybody thinks we're in the music business for money all of the time. But that's not true for me.
At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that.
I always kept busy. If the music business got bad I'd get me a job doin' somethin' else. Bellhop. Porter. Anything to make an honest living.
I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.
My whole family is involved in the arts - my sister is a professional Bharatnatyam dancer, and my dad helps me out on the music business end.
In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.
The worst thing about the music business is the business part of it. Business has nothing whatever to do with writing, playing and performing.
The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn't happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it.
As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving.
Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I think the ordinary guy has just as much right to say 'This is a good song' as somebody who is in the music business.
I know so many girls that have felt like they've been taken advantage of. Not only in the music business, but in every single career out there.
That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.
Technology has long been the driver of growth in the music business from the invention of lacquers, eight-track players, vinyl, cassettes and CDs.
I have a lot of dislike for the business end of the music business, particularly what they call shopping for a label. It can be a real stupid thing.
The tricky thing is music is supposed to be very mysterious; the way it's made is mysterious. Then people like to get upset with the music business.
I want to be a little bit brave. I want to feel scared sometimes. That's what's going to change the music business, if we have that kind of attitude.
Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.
I just feel like this guy who's visiting the music business over the weekend. Every time I write a song, I feel like it's never going to happen again.
If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors.
I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism.
I never even went to high school because I went straight from middle school into the music business. I don't really know what it is supposed to be like.
To be honest, when you grow up in the music business, people heard me sing from a young age, and you get offered development deals and things like that.
I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody.
Artists and the traditional record company model are at odds. The music business has notoriously taken from the artist. That shouldn't be the narrative.