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I've made a life and career as a professional musician.


Melissa Auf der Maur
Tags: Life Made Career
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
Originally I studied as a musician, a classical pianist. That was my career before I took up acting in my late 20s.
Christian McKay
Tags: Up Before Acting
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The best decision I ever made, period, was to get into the music business.


Ja Rule
My best business decision was to be independent as a musician and artist. My worst was compromising on certain aspects of a deal for the sake of other members of my group when I shouldn't have, because I was right in the end.
Ziggy Marley
Sometimes being a musician has little to do with viability and everything to do with survivability. Many musicians start out great, and they wind up out of the business in 10 years.
Todd Rundgren
I don't relate to what's left of the music business. There doesn't seem to be any point to it anymore. The business that I grew up in and loved, we made records a different way - there were record companies, there were stores where you could buy albums.
Don McLean
You go through stages in your career that you feel very good about yourself. Then you feel awful, like, 'Why didn't I choose something else?' But overall I'm pretty satisfied that I made the right choice when I decided to be an actor.
Gene Hackman
Tags: Good You Like
I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
Barry White
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Show business is made up of disappointments, and it's through life's disappointments that you grow.


Minnie Pearl
Tags: Business You Up
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Luck has had a great deal to do with my career.


John Glover
Tags: Great Had Career
Growing up listening to rap music, you almost feel like you should have haters. That's an important part of being a successful musician. It's a good thing, I guess.
Ezra Koenig
Tags: Good Music You
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I'm very fond of classical music, especially Mozart. I find it relaxes me and helps me concentrate.


Guler Sabanci
Tags: Music Me Very
The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.
Bonnie Raitt
It is up to the people and boxing fans to give me the respect I deserve once I have finished my career. I personally do not think about my legacy.
Wladimir Klitschko
Tags: Respect People Me
I grew up in a religious community, and like everyone, I went through a period of doubt and later made a conscious choice to embrace the faith of my childhood.
Gene Luen Yang
Tags: Faith Like Up
In 2007, Michael Grimm, former Marine, former FBI agent, accountant and attorney, was poised for success as a small business owner. Instead, as alleged, Grimm made the choice to go from upholding the law to breaking it. In so doing, he turned his back on every oath he had ever taken.
Loretta Lynch
Tags: Business Had Go
I never sought out a record deal. It caught me with my pants down. I was just a musician doing my thing, I didn't even send my records out.
Jamie Cullum
Tags: Me Just Out
I'm in this business to make films, not get deluded by the system. The system is set up to give you a headache.
George Tillman, Jr.
Tags: Business You Get
When someone asks about a career in fashion, I say start at the bottom. If you want to start a business, you have to know it from the ground up.
Tamara Mellon