Music Industry Quotes
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No one really buys records anymore. You can look at sales and do that math real quick. Unfortunately, it's fast food in the music industry. People don't ingest full records anymore.
Tommy Lee
Mötley Crüe
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We reckon the music industry is kind of like travelling freak shows. 'Cause, you know, travelling around from town to town, unpacking and packing up, and you meet all these freaks along the way. You meet good people as well but you do meet a lot of idiots. I'm not mentioning any names.
Ben Gillies
Silverchair
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Is there a gender gap in the music industry? It is true that there are more professional male music creators than female. For some reason, it's taking a lot longer in music than in literature and the visual arts to reach equilibrium. It was almost acceptable by the 19th century for female writers to be published, yet it's only in the last couple of decades, since about 1980, that historical female composers have really emerged.
Barbara Harbach
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I wanted to be a vet, a nurse, a chef - I mean, anything but the music industry. But once I hit high school, the bug really bit me. You can't deny where you come from and what's in your genes, and music definitely was. I haven't looked back since.
Hillary Scott
Lady Antebellum
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Its just kind of known in the music industry that a farewell tour means for now.
Nikki Sixx
Mötley Crüe
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Peanut is fine – that’s how everybody in the music industry knows me.
Nick Arrojo
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In the music industry, there's often a lot of egos and people aren't always very supportive, but we cheer each other on and we push each other to be better.
Camila Cabello
Fifth Harmony
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In music industry they always want you to write something like the one that was popular. And that's something you kind of have to just - sometimes you just say yes to people, like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure," and then you just write the one you want to write.
Benji Madden
Good Charlotte
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The whole music industry has completely and totally changed from how it was. It's very, very different. When we started, there were loads of record company people throwing money at musicians, and that did give people a long term career.
Susan Ann Sulley
The Human League
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One of the most harmful things in the music industry is 'record-by-committee,' where 10 people from the label gather around, and they make you write a 100 songs and decide which one's a hit. That takes the inspiration out of it.
Benji Madden
Good Charlotte
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Music industry ones, it’s kind of like “Be wary of what people promise you” because everybody will promise you the sun, moon, and the stars.
Vinny May Jr.
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It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music.
Tom Petty
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
