#music business

'The bigtime for you is just around the corner.' They told me that first in 1952 - boy, it's been a long corner. If I don't hit the bigtime in the next 25 or 30 years, I'm gonna pack in the music business and become a full-time gigolo. ↗

— Ronnie Hawkins

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I think the music business is probably not happy with what we've done, because the people buying the record have actually got to pick what they want to buy, rather than being told what they should buy. ↗

— John Otway

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When you are a journalist in the music business, as I was, you end up dying or going to the gym - I chose the gym. ↗

— Tony Parsons

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The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings. ↗

— Erykah Badu

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Independent artists and labels have always been the trend setters in music and the music business. ↗

— Shawn Fanning

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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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That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played. ↗

— Jackson Browne

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When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contract and I had to go to Paris to do it. So I went there and that's how I really got into the music business. But I didn't like what I was doing when I got there, so I left, and I never did a record there. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

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Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business. ↗

— Ville Valo

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The people on the business side in the music business are kind of different from the theatre business. I think it's partly because there are different pressures on the industries. ↗

— Tim Curry

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