Music Industry Quotes

A dazzling world. But also complex. The music industry is not just artistic creation. It is a vast network of business and marketing and technology. From artists who compose melodies to producers. Record companies. Streaming platforms. This industry constantly changes. Adapting to new technology. Facing challenges of piracy. And shifting listening habits. It is a unique blend of art and commerce. These quotes reveal the secrets of this controversial world.

Quote by John Lennon: At the (record company) meeting Paul just kept mithering on about what we were going to do, so in th...
Quote by Kendrick Lamar: Sometimes you have the trends that's not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these tr...
Quote by Dolly Parton: In the early days, Porter Wagoner would not exactly scold me, but he's  say, 'You're writing too man...
Quote by Kurt Cobain: It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label... Most people don't have any di...
Quote by Kanye West: It is true you can be successful without [college], but this is a hard world, a real world, and you ...
Quote by Taylor Swift: In the future, artists will get record deals because they have fans-not the other way around...The o...
Quote by Taylor Swift: In recent years, you've probably read the articles about major recording artists who have decided to...
Quote by John Lennon: When we came along there was only Decca, Philips and EMI who could really produce a record for you. ...
Quote by Taylor Swift: I think that when you're making your way up in the music industry you have all these heroes and the ...
Quote by Kanye West: I don’t know if this is statistically right, but I’m assuming I have the most Grammys of anyone my a...
Quote by Taylor Swift: I really believe we in the music industry can work together to find a way to bond technology with in...
Quote by Taylor Swift: I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music....
Quote by John Lennon: You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on ...
Quote by Taylor Swift: The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every c...
Quote by Taylor Swift: Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things sh...
Quote by John Lennon: It depends who they are. If it's Mick (Jagger) or the Old Guard as I call them, yeah, they're the Ol...
Quote by Kanye West: If it wasn't for race mixing, there'd be no video girls....
Quote by Taylor Swift: A development deal is an in-between record deal. It's like, a guy saying that he wants to date you b...
Quote by Steve Jobs: It's understandable that the music companies that are comprised of people that are successful by mak...
Quote by Taylor Swift: I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demograph...
Quote by Kurt Cobain: Alternative music is no longer alternative once it’s in the mainstream....
Quote by Kurt Cobain: I wish there had been a music business 101 course I could have taken....
Quote by John Lennon: In Hamburg the waiters always had Preludin - and various other pills, but I remember Preludin becaus...
Quote by Tim Vine: I'm not someone who gets to play The O2 and places like that, but that's the kind of rock and roll v...
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Quote by Taylor Swift: A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 o...
Quote by John Lennon: If you're an unknown artist you're lucky to get an hour in a studio - it's a hierarchy and if you do...
Quote by Taylor Swift: But I say to Apple with all due respect, we don’t ask you for free iPhones. Please don’t ask us to p...
Quote by Tupac Shakur: Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a...
Quote by Tupac Shakur: Everybody raps. We rap to make money. We do business. Ain't no other record company out there that s...