Industry Quotes
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When you don't know the rules, you break them all. It's hard to take big risks when you know the history of an industry and what has worked and what didn't.
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I think people are well aware of our impact on the industry.
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The movie industry places such importance on first-week numbers-which means what to people, I don't know. It's very strange. They hope to sell tons of records the first week, and then what?
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I recognise a lot of myself in these kids who enter shows like Pop Idol. It's very hard to get into the music industry and you have to take every opportunity that you can. Something like Pop Idol is a great opportunity but unfortunately, I think it's tainted by the people that make these shows.
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Every time the industry gets powerful, and corporate thinking dominates what the music is, then the music really pales.
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All the carbon copies, the stuff that the industry puts together, it's not selling if you pay attention and look at the charts. The stuff that they put together, these hits that just go out, it doesn't sell. It doesn't have a core fan base of fans that dedicatedly watch their life. It's just a song, another song, another hit song, a one-hit wonder. It doesn't sell. It doesn't last.
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I might be one of the very few people in this industry who doesn't have a 'me too' story.
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I think Canada, our industry is still somewhat based in America's industry.
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In terms of the way the industry operates, the studio system was such its own thing. It's so different now that it's a globalized world.
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The archiving industry, much like the funeral industry and the wedding industry, these industries can be very exploitative.
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People have told me that I came to this industry at its Golden Age. But when I was there, it was just an age.
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I came into the industry as an actor. And moved on to become a star with the help of my dancing skills.
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The problem now with changes in the music industry is that there's almost no point in making records anymore. The only thing really is to tour, and then you're revisiting history. Maybe it's better to leave it, if you see what I mean.
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The South we belong to is a good country, a valiant country; it always has valor, and it has had industry and thrift. Our house is painted, our grass is green. For those of us who bend our backs and put our shoulders to to the wheel, the South is still Canaan land; it is milk and honey.
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The idea that you must bathe every day is, to a certain extent, a manufacture on the part of the soap industry.
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To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors.
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I think there’s a resurgence because I think girl groups are such a staple in this industry and I don’t think they will ever go away even when you see one girl group go away, you’re going to see another one that’s coming because I think we’re the fabric of music and the music industry and certainly in the African-American culture.
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A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.
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Mult-Tenancyi is really the future of our industry.
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What is the problem with the advertising industry is they're still, for me, what I call in Africa is the colonial mind of white men, because the black person or the other colour is out of the line. They're not good for this sort of purpose.
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The Australian government is working closely with industry to target the skilled migration programme to help meet the needs of the states and regions, including regional and rural Victoria.
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Our industry classic music has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity.
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I think China is set up to surpass the US on the even more critical industry of green power.
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I've been covering the art industry for nine years, and I still don't feel like I have a clear grasp on what an art consultant does. What's the difference between a dealer and an art consultant? Who are they? What's their day to day like? So I asked a few private dealers, consultants and curators to talk about what they do. Everyone told me a different story.
