All Quotes

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.
‐‐ Jennifer Egan

The music industry is dominated by guys. I work with men 98 percent of the time - producers, arrangers, musicians, engineers.
‐‐ Shakira

The music industry is in such poor shape; it's in a really bad way, and a lot of people in the industry are very depressed.
‐‐ Kate Bush

The 'music industry' is not a term I use. I tend to concentrate on music, and the music business is something different.
‐‐ Mark Knopfler

The music industry is really funny, when you have a hit record, everyone knows who are you, everyone wants to do duets with you, then if you have a miss, people suffer from amnesia.
‐‐ Seal

The music industry is saying, This is the format, and if you'll fit into this format, you can be on radio, and if radio will play you, MTV will expose you, and MTV will expose you, we'll sell records.
‐‐ Nikki Sixx

The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world.
‐‐ Vanessa Carlton

The music industry is something that I'm still trying to understand. With acting, I've been doing it for so long that I understand every aspect of it for the most part - there are obviously still more aspects that I need to learn - but I have a grasp on it. With music, I'm still learning. I'm still getting used to it.
‐‐ Keke Palmer

The music industry is such a different world from the acting world. Everything is really last minute, but I love the challenge, and I love owning my material and being able to put out what I want.
‐‐ Hayley Kiyoko

The music industry is transforming fairly rapidly.
‐‐ Ryan Lewis

The music industry is very small.
‐‐ Rita Ora

The music industry over there seems to treat America like it's one territory even though they got offices in different parts of America - they're still quite sort of 'America is the territory.'
‐‐ Sean Booth

The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn't it?
‐‐ Ronnie James Dio

The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
‐‐ Adam Kluger

The music industry used to be able to control a single dance on the very smallest level of when people are supposed to hear it, and when they're supposed to start liking it, and when they're supposed to start buying it. And that's trashed, you know, that big machine that takes control and works albums for a long period.
‐‐ Robyn

The music is a personal expression, like art. It is something that you like doing that comes from within, and is an expression that comes from God. That is why artists are beautiful and why people who copy are not really artistic.
‐‐ Michael Schenker

The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music?
‐‐ Lou Reed

The music is first and foremost everything - no egos, no attitude, nothing - it's about the music.
‐‐ Big Boi

The music is fun and all that, but first and foremost it is a business, it's about money.
‐‐ Steve Brown

The music is going to die if you don't tap into something that people today can relate to.
‐‐ Robert Glasper

The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I'm doing. I feel a closer bond with the craft of songwriting, stronger than I ever have.
‐‐ Ben Harper

The music is just so rich and part of the culture there. I suddenly felt like I needed to go on this mission to make sure we save New Orleans because - not that I can save anything - but it's so much part of what this country is, this whole mix of people coming together and doing this thing.
‐‐ Harold Perrineau

The music is really about sharing an experience. That's why we call it Stay Human. It's like we're sharing this genuine human exchange.
‐‐ Jon Batiste

The music is something outside myself that's also inside myself... Music and a sense of another presence always went hand in hand. Even when I was three, I would improvise music, and my maternal grandfather would act as an audience and used to applaud. I would imitate things like thunder and rain.
‐‐ John Tavener

The music is the last thing I'm thinking about right now, in order of what's important.
‐‐ Burt Bacharach

The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.
‐‐ Bill Haley

The music is the message, the message is the music. So that's my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me - a little ministry called love and happiness.
‐‐ Al Green

The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.
‐‐ Lotte Lehmann

The music itself could never take the place of my own passion in life.
‐‐ Luciano Pavarotti

The music itself is very challenging, so I've never really felt the lack of stimulation. I love to be creating; I love to be making things and solving problems, I suppose, and when I'm not, then I'm not an incredibly good person to be around. If I'm not busy, then I think I would be disaster. That's just the way things are.
‐‐ Brian May

The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.
‐‐ Mark Knopfler

The music kind of possesses me when I sing. So whenever I start to sing on a show - I mean, first, I'm nervous, and then when I get into it, it's just like I feel like I'm the person who sang the song first.
‐‐ Jackie Evancho

The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
‐‐ Ice T

The music of ABBA is not that happy. It might sound happy, in some strange way, but deep within, it's not happy music. It has that Nordic melancholic feeling to it. What fools you is the girls' voices. You know, I do think that is one of the secrets about ABBA. Even when we were really quite sad, we always sounded jubilant.
‐‐ Bjorn Ulvaeus

The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.
‐‐ Carlos Santana

The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet.
‐‐ June Jordan

The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.
‐‐ Franz Liszt

The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals.
‐‐ Bruce Beresford

The music rights at the time cost me $12,000 in 1964 money, which is about double now or whatever. But I cleared everything. I had a lawyer in New York. And it was cleared for use in a short subject, not a feature.
‐‐ Kenneth Anger

The music's job is to get the audience so involved that they forget how the movie turns out.
‐‐ James Horner

The music scene is more competitive in the States.
‐‐ Dexter Gordon

The music sold itself before anybody knew who I was.
‐‐ Enya

The music speaks for itself. You either like it or you don't, or you're somewhere in between. That doesn't change whether I'm in the band or not.
‐‐ Bun E. Carlos

The music stuff has been very difficult. It's got to be right, and even then, it better be on key.
‐‐ Michael Winslow

The music stuff is just a hobby.
‐‐ Tom Felton

The music technology scene is changing so fast it's hard to keep up.
‐‐ Natasha Bedingfield

The music that I chose during my life, it wasn't arbitrary. It was all in my family home when I was growing up. I never tried to record anything I hadn't heard before the age of 10. Otherwise, I couldn't do it authentically.
‐‐ Linda Ronstadt

The music that I hate the most is R&B.
‐‐ Marjane Satrapi

The music that I have learned and want to give is like worshipping God. It's absolutely like a prayer.
‐‐ Ravi Shankar

The music that I listen to is very minimalistic. I listen to a lot of old blues that is just guitar and vocals.
‐‐ Lykke Li