Well, more than me saying to the rest of the country music industry there is not enough traditional country music – that is not necessarily the statement in truth. I think more so that I, me, missed it more than anything else.
I don’t think piracy is going to kill the music industry. But digital technology and the ability to download will change the packaging from CDs to a single-based business.
I’ve been an educator all my life pretty much. It’s important as a manager and also as a record label, to educate your artists on public speaking, how to build that connection, how to communicate effectively, to have a general working knowledge of the music industry.
I have four older siblings and one younger, and all three of my brothers are in the music industry. My dad was really involved in music, too, with the disco, and he also started Radio Caroline and was the one who invented pirate radio, if you like, off on a coast in England on a boat.
I think this industry can be tough on everyone. You have to surround yourself with supportive people and know when to put your foot down and do what’s best for you and your family. The first few years in the music industry can be a steep learning curve, and I’ve definitely developed a thicker skin!
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.
When I got into the music industry, I wasn’t focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.
‘The X Factor’ is great entertainment, but it doesn’t prepare people for getting chewed up and spat out by the music industry.
In the past I’ve had a very small independent label help me do an album and I’m so grateful for that, but as anybody knows in the music industry, that is down there.
When you look at what people consider success in the music industry, it’s just terrible music.
I’ve been through the music industry and with the Internet the music industry is not what it used to be.
I had to leave the music industry behind for a minute to figure out what made me feel home again.
I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn’t there before that.
I don’t think we see ourselves as the savior of the music industry.
We have seen the damage already caused to the music industry and we have to continue to make the public and government bodies globally aware of the damage that will happen if DVD piracy is not brought under control.
I didn’t understand how to make it in the music industry, I just wanted to make music.
To me, the music industry doesn’t exist, it’s like the devil, it doesn’t exist if you don’t believe in it.
I’m not saying you can’t be successful in the music industry without Spotify. But when I look at the future of music, I don’t think scarcity is the model anymore. We have to embrace ubiquity – that music is everywhere.
Singing rock n’ roll – they called it singing for the devil. But we all wanted an opportunity to compete in the music industry, and that was the opportunity.
England’s a small nation, and the pop music industry is built on fashion.
If I hadn’t had that decade in the music industry and, perhaps more importantly, time to reach the point of being sick and disgusted with it, I wouldn’t have written ‘Kill Your Friends.’ That book gave me my whole career.
I play the harmonium. I had learned to use the guitar for a bit before becoming a part of the music industry, but unfortunately didn’t pursue it fully. I would love to learn to play the piano because it holds a unique connect for me in terms of rhythm.
No matter where I’m at in life, whether I’m in the music industry, rich, poor, everybody need love in their life. Gangsta or not, everybody need love in their life. You can’t act too hard about that.
Sometimes it’s isolating, but just being in the music industry that is just dominated by men, I think it means I have to be comfortable and confident in myself and not really care that people think I’m bossy and opinionated and also try and balance that energy.
Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he’s not down for his homeboys, I don’t wanna be a part of him or around him.
The music industry is not set up well at all, environmentally. But I sing about what I feel, and I’m very inspired by activists and friends that I get to connect with.
I think as far as the music industry is concerned, it’s kind of been the wild, wild West in a way with the Internet, which is not necessarily a bad thing to me.
I’ve been through the entire gamut of the music industry – I’ve been playing in clubs since I was 14, and I’ve been on Warner Bros, on Sony – I’ve had lots of successes and some serious times of struggle.
Obviously I’m very proud to be Canadian because there’s a lot of crazy cool artists that come out of Canada. It’s always been my home ground, even if I’m traveling around the world dancing or singing or in L.A. all the time. But Alberta doesn’t really have a music industry.
At the end of the day, I want the music industry to be larger than what it is today.
When you grow up in the music industry, trying to be Britney Spears because that’s what sells records and then you realize, ‘All I have to do is be myself? I should have thought of that a long time ago,’ it feels good to have success come from what’s actually inside of you.
Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn’t an artist out there who could survive without hit songs.
The hardest part about the music industry for anyone is getting into the ears of the world.
I don’t think holograms are the future in the music industry.
The movie industry can be tricky and occasionally creepy, and I have this sense that the music industry is just shady as hell. I don’t want to be a part of it.
I’ve been through a lot in the music industry, in life. I’ve learned that I have to be tough in this world.
A lot of white men in the music industry are promoting and participating in black culture in a way that is pretty careless. They want the currency of blackness, but they don’t want the brunt that comes along with that.
The music industry is transforming fairly rapidly.
The music industry is changing. You only hear a sprinkling of big names, but there are a lot of really wonderful young musicians with great voices and lyrical content who have refined their sound. They’re up in here, so don’t think they’re not. There’s this wealth of talent below the surface that’s ready to explode.
The thing that scares me about the way the music industry has changed so much is that I’m afraid that the record, the album, will disappear, and it’ll go back to the way it was in the ’50s where everything is single-based.
I’m always gonna be a part of the industry. I may just not be a part of the music industry as Scarface.
When I did the record, I was coming off a time when my contract had been sold and the music industry had changed a lot. I didn’t understand how to make records for big labels. I was waiting for a new kind of record label to emerge.
My family didn’t push me into the music industry; they just wanted me to do something I loved.
I was on ‘X Factor’ the day after the Brexit vote. People voted for Brexit. But the public also voted for me, they wanted me to be there and part of the music industry. I haven’t felt any bad effects.
I’m proud of my roots. There are not many Asians in the music industry so it’s important for me to tell people where I’m from.
There’s prejudice everywhere. I don’t think the music industry is as bad as the movie industry. But I have taken a few hits over the years for my sexuality, and for being honest about my life. In the end, it’s the music that rules the roost.
I know Becky G, Natti Natasha, and other Latina singers, we have been working many, many years and now we have the opportunity to show what we have, to show what we have been doing for many years. Great things are happening for women in the Latin music industry.
By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum.
I didn’t have any knowledge of the music industry when I first got to L.A., and I really didn’t know on a creative level what I wanted to sound like, so I had to do a lot of experimenting. It led to a spiral of depression and being broke.
We are passionate about making it so that users enjoy the music that they want to enjoy but at the same time fairly compensates artists. That’s not the same as saving the music industry.
Thank you so much for supporting me from the day I stepped foot into the music industry. It really means something to me to have Maya Angelou speak on my behalf. It also means a lot to have Oprah on my speed dial!
Everyone in the music industry is so fun and laid-back.
I just kind of transitioned right out of the dance world into the music industry. I started writing and I just fell in love with the whole process.
Anytime I shoot a video, I just think of anything I can do to set myself apart from everybody in the music industry.
Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don’t have the bandwidth to download all the stuff – the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.
