When you think of Napster, you think of music. But the first thing that struck me was that this was an important case not only for the music industry but for the whole Internet.
Ask me my influences, I always talk about Bjork and Beck because they’re independent voices in the music industry.
I’ve worked with many powerful men in the music industry.
But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it’s not only about the music.
I think it’s important to find out who all the writers were and make sure everyone gets a fair cut – but the music industry hasn’t really got payment of people right at all, to be honest.
I’m now 23 and feel like it’s been a full ‘crash course’ in the music industry – I’ve only just found my sound.
The facts show that the music industry was much better off before Spotify hit these shores.
There’s entrenched homophobia behind the scenes at all levels of the music industry.
That’s just the music industry. They always want you to write something like the one that was popular.
I just am really bad at making new friends – especially in the music industry, because they’re not really real friends; they’re just music industry friends.
When I was first starting out in the music industry, I was always coupled in the same sentence with Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera – and I was probably the worst of them. I think a lot of people back then thought, ‘Mandy Moore… she’ll probably go back to where she came from in a year.’
Nice guys just don’t finish first in the music industry.
The music industry over there seems to treat America like it’s one territory even though they got offices in different parts of America – they’re still quite sort of ‘America is the territory.’
‘The X Factor’ was the final push I needed to have the presence and confidence on stage, which I didn’t have before. It’s a crash course in the music industry. If you can survive the show, you’re ready for the industry.
There are so many times that, as a woman in the music industry, you’re asked questions no male musician would ever be asked.
In the music industry, you can’t create success without having to engage a white man. It’s just not possible. Whether it’s executives, A&Rs, and the people that hold the key to your paper, inevitably, you’ll be met with whiteness.
All music industry places are the same, really. They have the same dynamics and the same concerns and the same needs.
I used to DJ in Atlanta, and that’s how I kind of got into the music industry.
The music industry is something that I’m still trying to understand. With acting, I’ve been doing it for so long that I understand every aspect of it for the most part – there are obviously still more aspects that I need to learn – but I have a grasp on it. With music, I’m still learning. I’m still getting used to it.
In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.
Before I’d even started doing music or having opportunities with my own music, I was studying production and business and stuff anyway. I knew there were so many jobs within the music industry – songwriting or session playing or working at a label – and I was really interested in how it all works.
We all know there are some major problems in the music industry. Every new act signs a bad deal.
I am empowered by my friends in the music industry who are other fellow black men because I see them as my brothers; we have similar experiences and relate to each other.
I think there is less of inspiration and more of perspiration in the music industry.
Amazingly, I’ve been sort of an anomaly in the music industry. I feel like I’ve been able to exist as kind of a throwback artist.
I’m still dancing – my mum owns a dance company – but I felt like there was more freedom in the music industry. You can take your vision and really bring it to life no matter what, because it’s just you.
The music industry is really difficult.
I love music, so if I wasn’t singing, I would probably still be working in the music industry. I love songwriting, so I’d probably be a songwriter.
I hope that the movie industry will learn from the experiences of the music industry and will be much more constructive in their approach to P2P.
Just as like the music industry still wishes for the days when it controlled its own production and distribution, the media and marketing world still yearns for the silver bullet of the thirty-second spot on ‘Seinfeld,’ even as it knows those days are over.
I think people can just make things now. It’s kind of what happened with the music industry. Before, a band couldn’t afford to go into a nice studio, or if they were going to go into a nice studio, they had to record twenty-five songs in two days. That’s not a healthy workflow for anyone.
‘Birds of a Feather’ is on Netflix, and it did big for me. For me, it was a trial and error thing. I never thought about being an actor. I just felt like, in the music industry now, anything you said can go. So now it’s a part of what I do. I make movies now.
Jupiter, Pluto, pick a planet: we can go there. I just got a bit more work to do in the music industry, and we’re going to space, baby.
I came back to the Mumbai music industry after 10 years.
The Internet was a saving grace for promoting and exposing, and even creating. It’s a parallel world to the music industry that already exists, and I’m glad to be a part of it.
I always wanted to be a musician from when I was kid. It was always a massive dream of mine. School was also really really important to me and having an education was top of my priority. So I really wanted to have a degree before I tried anything in the music industry.
To be honest, I’ve found so many more friends in the music industry than people I disagree with. I certainly haven’t been made to feel like an outsider.
If Apple’s a technology company in the music industry, why can’t somebody in the music industry make technology?
The experiences that I’ve had in the music industry have given me a learning curve.
Music industry is like fashion. Things keep coming, things keep going, trends keep changing.
Music TV in the U.K. is disappearing. ‘Top Of The Pops,’ ‘CD:UK’ and shows like that have gone, and it’s bringing down the music industry. We should do as much as we can to keep our music TV and producers need to be more willing to accommodate live music.
I’ll be honest, watching the music industry collapse has been demoralizing and disheartening at times.
I know the music industry is based on a lot of smoke and mirrors in a lot of cases, such as making things look like one thing versus what it actually is. I feel like I’ve been here long enough that I’ve surpassed the need for any of that.
I feel we have a music industry within the film industry.
I think that when you’re making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.
People like Pedro Infante, Jorge Negrete, Antonio Aguilar, Pedro Fernandez, Vicente Fernandez – these are probably all names that many people don’t know, but they are very popular in the music industry. They were people that I grew up listening to and aspiring to be like one day.
One thing the music industry has taught me is to manage my expectations.
The music industry is so cool because it’s constantly changing.
I decided right away that whomever was going to advise me had to be fundamentally interested in music. This protected me from the skullduggery common to the music industry then and that still exists today. Of course, using this method meant that some things we didn’t know and just had to learn how to do it together.
If Apple’s a technology company in the music industry, why can’t somebody in the music industry make technology?
Andy Grammer is probably the closest friend I have in the music industry, so touring with him was just incredible. He’s such a soulful, kind guy, and he gives great advice. And he also scares me a lot. He does a lot of pranks.
My biggest failure was trying to start and run a music label. The music industry was dying, and I wasn’t ready to help other people the way that they needed to be helped. I was trying to, and I was stifling myself with it.
It’s interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had.
The music industry doesn’t exist the way it used to. You’ll never have another star like the stars of the ’90s.
I’m in a crazy business. The music industry is really tough, and I fight for my life. I just want to make everybody happy.
The music industry is really funny, when you have a hit record, everyone knows who are you, everyone wants to do duets with you, then if you have a miss, people suffer from amnesia.
With Milli Vanilli, we felt more like bimbos, the bimbos of the music industry, and we didn’t want to be the bimbos anymore.
How I can be an active voice for gay people but also the music industry? This is the art we need right now. This is what we need right now. We’re in a renaissance, and we need people to rebel, come forth, and bring messages into art.
One of the most harmful things in the music industry is ‘record-by-committee,’ where 10 people from the label gather around, and they make you write a 100 songs and decide which one’s a hit. That takes the inspiration out of it.
