I had no idea that I could sustain a career as an artist. But, I loved music and wanted to be in the music business.
I'm all for sharing music, but when people can download a whole record and pay nothing for it and then they share it with 100,000 other people, it's breaking down the whole business.
You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.
I'm a binge writer. I work in the music business fulltime, in artist management and developing songwriters and recording artists, and so juggling my job I carve out as much time as I can on the weekends.
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.
I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.
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.
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 fort...
In the music business, to survive for so long, you have to be able to cut off from your emotions sometimes. And being a father, you're faced with that situation. I know that my father was, with me. I understand why he had to be distant, because to ri...
I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in a racket. There's no way you can get involved in a racket and not someway be filthied by it.
Yeah, man I am going to be writing a book soon. The reality of being in a rock band in the music business'.
I have known from the beginning one thing you need to know. That is, the music business is a business.
The music is fun and all that, but first and foremost it is a business, it's about money.
When I was 17-years-old, I was in the music business.
I've always treated the music business as a business.
I've been here 21 years, and I literally did walk up and down Music Row trying to break into the business. I felt very free to go into any publishing company.
I am in a business that's built on record sales and reputation and how your single is doing and where your song is on iTunes. But the kind of music that I do comes from my beliefs.
Independent artists and labels have always been the trend setters in music and the music business.
I still like to play the guitar, but I rarely have anything to do with the music business these days. I mean, there is no music business anymore, is there?
The only way to get ahead in the music business these days is to call up all your friends. To pool your resources.
But I cannot bring myself to believe that I was intended for a musician, because it seems so small a business in comparison with other things which, it seems to me, I might do. Question here: 'What is the province of music in the economy of the world...
