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If you had ever heard my album you would know that I could never consider the music business!


Dwayne Hickman
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.
Faith Hill
Miley Cyrus, like all of us, needs to be loved. We all come from complicated parents... I understand her, and I love her, and I think things will be different with her. But you know, in the music business, sometimes you have to shock a little.
Richard Simmons
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It's a small percentile of people who see one dime out of the music business.


Chad Kroeger
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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.


Van Morrison
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I've always treated the music business as a business.


Simon Cowell
I certainly have gotten caught up in the music business at various times in my life, mostly because you want to get along with whatever record company you're dealing with. I don't want to be flaky. I don't want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician.
Frank Black
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I'm dealing with things as they come along, and I'm talking about it.


Lucinda Williams
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That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.
Morrissey
Lots of people, from what I can see, just want to get into the music business for the glamour of it. But there isn't any, really. It's so up and down this industry, but if you really love it, nothing can stop you.
Eliza Doolittle
The music business is a crazy game, especially for somebody like me who is really a purist about the art. Trying to balance the pressures of commercialism, it's a tightrope. It's a fine line between sticking to your guns and insanity.
D'Angelo
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I used to go with him and I'd sometimes play, take over from him. That was my first taste of the music business, I suppose, but I was also in the youth orchestra at Johnston Grammar.
Trevor Horn
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By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.
Lawrence Welk
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When I went to City of Bath College, I studied the music business.


Gabrielle Aplin
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I think Sean Parker damaged the music business with Napster.


Curtis Jackson
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.
Peter Hook
I feel like I've got a novel in me somewhere, but that's something... I was just talking to a buddy of mine about it, who's a writer as well, and he's nearly done with his first novel, and it's taken him 11, 12 years to do it. And I can totally understand; it's a long process.
Corey Taylor
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The music business is very hard on women over 22. You really have to prove yourself every time you make a record. Are you as vibrant as you used to be? Are you as sexy? So I really want to prove that a woman in her 30s can be all those things and more.
Jody Watley
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My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him.
Steven Van Zandt
Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.
Jackson Browne
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