CeeLo Green Quotes

That's one of the problems with making music your business, it becomes a business. You're no longer just this kid who is a fan and going to see every show. I've been in a bar every night for the last 15 years. Going to see bands for me is work.

I do like pop music. It's that certain thing that it gives you: the adrenaline rush, that instant gratification.

I don't think 'Sugar Man' is a music doc any more than 'The Social Network' is about computers. It just happens to have the best soundtrack ever.

Music television is all about the media-oriented version of what it is to be a rock star; it's not about what Bob Dylan or Jimi Hendrix were about - which included great images, sure, but they had spiritual and political and revolutionary content, too.

Since the early Nineties it's been very fashionable to say, 'It's all about the music.'

I love the music business very much.

With the advent of radio and recording, music became an industry rather than just a tradition.

There's hip-hop music in 'Power,' but the show is not about the hip-hop industry.

I've learned to respect Rick Ross' music.

I was so moved by music that I wanted to create it as well, but once you decide that's what you want to do with your life, to be successful, you have to be business-minded, too.

The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.

I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business.

I've never been in the music industry, only acting.

'None of Your Business.' It's the only Salt-N-Pepa song that I regret.

I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades.

I played the guitar and thought that was what I was going to do as a career. I still record music that is played in my restaurants.

Radio is aimed at the 30-year-old market, so you have to have great music and appeal to get that age group. And you need a record company to believe in you. It's like a bit of the perfect storm.

There's more to being a musician than just making music.

Being a recording artist, selling music, selling concerts out, having a reality show, starting film; it's great, it's beautiful.

I've never worried about how a new release will be received. I simply try to do the best I can and leave the rest to the gods. The music industry in those terms is something I loathe and detest. It conjures up images of a gigantic factory spewing out parts of the machine.

I wouldn't mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home.

Now, it's almost impossible to go out and do a film about a new form of music.

I decided to combine my musical background, business education and creative abilities - and go into the record business.

Nowadays people sell millions of records that can't sing.

Music and the music business are two different things.