I thought I could get myself into the music business by doing paralegal work. I was just trying to get in any way I could.
My whole family is involved in the arts – my sister is a professional Bharatnatyam dancer, and my dad helps me out on the music business end.
When I went to City of Bath College, I studied the music business.
People are gonna get tired of Linda Perry the producer, but I will always be in the music business. And I will always be successful in it.
It’s important to know the ins and outs of the music business, but you can also dive too deeply into it and forget that you’re really here to make music.
I needed a break, and going to culinary school turned a lightbulb on that I didn’t have to make music. The people in the music business forget that not only is there an entire world of people out there who do not care what we do, we are not creating the wheel.
Books are so cheap and easy to get that people don’t bother stealing them, which is the essential rule of piracy that the music business learned much too late.
It was my first big relationship and it was just very abusive. I wouldn’t give him the credit of naming him, if he ever reads this. But he was older, in the music business – or so he said.
I may quit the music business someday, but never the music.
Mentorship is really important. I really like to talk to people who have been in the music industry much longer than me about artists’ block, things I’m struggling with, or the music business. It’s really important for artists to have a community. Sometimes you can feel quite isolated.
I think the reason I got into the music business was basically for the live aspect of it.
Getting into film production was obviously the next step once we had consolidated our music business.
I think in certain areas the demand is greater than it has ever been, and my business is better than it’s been in 30 years. The music business is so precarious, as you know-you’ve got to make it while you can make it, and that’s exactly what we’re doing.
When I talk about success I don’t mean music business, I just mean the people around me.
I’m not saying I wasn’t flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.
I think, as an industry, we should be supportive of a broad subscription model and not do anything to jeopardize the potential health of the music business – because we’re not out of the woods yet.
The only thing that was economic, I might say, about my music career, aside from the fact that I did everybody’s tax returns in the band, was the decision I made to leave the music business on economic grounds.
I don’t get bored. In the music business you get used to a lot of waiting around.
For me, a lot of my fondest memories of being in the music business were being in the studio with The Doobs and being part of that organization and being a part of that music.
In the music business, especially the country music business, every 10 years or so you’re going to have this changing of the guard, this wave of new artists that comes in.
When you’re in the music business, every day is the same. If you work 9 to 5, you can’t wait for the weekend, but in the music business, you don’t know one day from the next. It’s always the weekend.
The kids of today have taken over the music business – most of them very young. Simply because they write and jot down a few notes, they have the idea that they can write songs.
I think the path is different for everybody. Go after the doors that are open to you. That has always been my motto getting into the music business. Do the things that seem to be good opportunities and work hard at it. Try to make good decisions and be nice. Hopefully all of that will pay off at some point.
Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don’t really know how the music business works.
The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing.
Copyright’s democratising effect is seen most clearly in the music business. Anyone who can speak, sing, rap or hum and operate a simple sound recorder can create a copyright song. Imagination is the only limit.
The Beach Boys have always been a part of the ’60s spectrum, with The Beatles and that kind of thing. They were a part of the music business like everyone else. And they did quite well as a singing group, and I finished a lot of good records, and I’m very proud of them.
The music business is one of a few places where everything you’ve heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it’s true.
Jail just made me wiser. It made me smarter. It made me wake up to a lot of stuff. And also it made me a better businessman. I had to learn the music business. It just made me a better person as far as the way I live.
Being in the music business, if we couldn’t pull the fashions from designers and if designers couldn’t use artists to show off their fashions, where would we be?
We do things on an exchange basis in the music business – it keeps the wheels turning. That’s how I can get people like Slash, Flea and Kris Kristofferson on my album. Collaboration should be done through trades rather than charging each other a fortune.
I came to music and knowing a little bit about life, and I came to music knowing a lot about business – and that’s a real advantage. By the time I came to music, I had purchased real estate, opened restaurants, and been in the business world, so the music business didn’t blindside me.
The music business, a lot of times, has a big finesse mentality to it.
At the end of the day, there’s only a few major stars in the music business, and then there’s all these people that are aspiring to be that.
The music business is not a good place for people who don’t know things.
Our goal is to continue to be a global consolidator of the live music business.
I want to be a little bit brave. I want to feel scared sometimes. That’s what’s going to change the music business, if we have that kind of attitude.
The music business is the most childish business in the world. Nobody knows what they’re selling or why, but they sell it if it works.
You can get jaded in the music business, but I have so much passion, and I try to do music with different people to ‘reset.’
I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.
The music business used to be filled with people who love music.
By the time 1997 had rolled around, I had been in the music business for all my life, from the age of 15. I started recording professionally when I was 18. I had seen how record companies work, how the business works, and truth be told, I was pretty disgusted by everything by that time.
I’m from a little island off of Massachusetts, Nantucket. It’s hard getting into the music business from there, but my parents took me to songwriting festivals because I would write and produce my own music.
I think no matter how you think about your music, you’re ultimately in the music ‘business.’ I think you have to be business-minded in some sense. And for me, the real goal… is positive intention and social change through music. It doesn’t mean that can’t turn a profit.
‘Straight Outta Compton’ was such a great movie, and obviously, I’m in the music business, so getting to see that piece of history was amazing, and it was an incredible movie.
This music business can suck all the love out of you, all the compassion for people – you can start to think you’re better than them. But I want to continue to let people know that I’m no better and no worse, I’m just like you.
I never had my mind set on being an entertainer in the music business.
I hope that I am out of the music business when I meet God.
My future definitely lies in the music business.
I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades.
