Burning Spear Quotes

The music industry is very small.

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.

It's a small percentile of people who see one dime out of the music business.

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.

Music and the music business are two different things.

But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.

I have known from the beginning one thing you need to know. That is, the music business is a business.

If I had to live on record sales, I'd be pushing up the daisies.

The music industry is really difficult.

I suppose we don't know that much about how the music business operates in the U.K., but from what I've heard, it's a pretty big deal.

That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them.

As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving.

I don't know how many records I'm selling.

If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.

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.

Music can be so disturbing and frustrating. I mean the business side of it. The actual making music part is fun, but the business side of it is just so out of control, has nothing to do with anything.

I don't get involved in record label politics.

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.

Sheet music, recording, radio, television, cassettes, CD burners, and file sharing have all invalidated, to some extent, the old model of making a living making music.

When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record shop? But I think we all agree that radio stations are good stuff.

I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.

In whichever way my music can get out there, I'm just like, 'Sure.' It's also through the TV synch licenses that I've been surviving. I don't really make money through record sales. I used to be really picky: 'No, I don't want it to be the song of a commercial,' but nowadays it's what you need to do to get the song out as much as you can.

I have always abhorred the business end of music.

You learn at a certain point that you have to focus on the business side of music. After getting ripped off a couple of times, you figure out that you need to get a grip on it.

The music business doesn't interest me anymore.