I am disappointed in the music business, I feel like a lot of people in the music business are phoney, there's a lot of people who will abuse and take my kindness.
For the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it's doom and gloom and you have to spend millions of pounds on marketing and this and that, you have this amazing thing now called fan power. The whole world is linked through a laptop. It's amazing. And it's free. I love it. It's absolutely brilliant.
Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
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.
By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.
The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music.
Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.
I've done well, I've been disappointed, and I think it all goes back to you. Of course the labels are going to be the labels. It's the music business. You are a business. That's what they do. So you've got to protect yourself.
Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.
I suppose that by being absent from the music business, it appeared that I just dropped out, but really I never did. I was continuously working and doing various things.
Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.
When you are a journalist in the music business, as I was, you end up dying or going to the gym - I chose the gym.
The kids of today have taken over the music business - most of them very young. Simply because they write and jot down a few notes, they have the idea that they can write songs.
My family wasn't in the music business, but they loved music.
That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.
The first thing you learn about the music business is that it changes very quickly. You come into it at a certain point and you think you have a handle on it... And then, three years later, the whole thing has been turned upside-down.
The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.
I think it's a reflection of the music business in general, which to me seems very fragmented.
I am passionate about finding undiscovered and talented artists. I want to help those artists get to the next level and provide existing artists with a new way to reach fans. I wanted to partner with the Cutting Edge Group because they share my vision and have a proven track record in innovation in the music business.
I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business.
Over the course of my 20-year history as an executive in the music business and as the owner of a firm that specializes in in-culture advertising, I have come to the conclusion that the Grammy Awards have clearly lost touch with contemporary popular culture.
I think in certain areas the demand is greater than it has ever been, and my business is better than it's been in 30 years. The music business is so precarious, as you know-you've got to make it while you can make it, and that's exactly what we're doing.
Writing is not work. In fact, there's nothing better. Writing is something that if the music business went completely away tomorrow - radio stations quit existing and music quit being popular and it was old hat - I would still write songs.
The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified.
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 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.
Being in the music business is a totally different industry right there.
I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have.
The 'music industry' is not a term I use. I tend to concentrate on music, and the music business is something different.
Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.
Independent artists and labels have always been the trend setters in music and the music business.
I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.
Getting back to the point, a guy like Jerry, he deals with the business, and he doesn't see it as being evil or ugly, it's what you have to do, and I mean I know there's some really ugly parts to it and parts which drive me nuts, but not in the same way as music business.
Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business.
It's important to know the ins and outs of the music business, but you can also dive too deeply into it and forget that you're really here to make music.
I may quit the music business someday, but never the music.
