Chad Gilbert Quotes

The music industry is very small.

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

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.

The music industry is really difficult.

I think the music business is as crass and as unrewarding as it has ever been.

I think that the music industry is such an interesting place, and there are so many situations that people don't know about.

I don't get involved in record label politics.

As a person, I've been in the business since 1969, and I never remember getting an honest count based upon how many records been sold for Burning Spear.

Music and the music business are two different things.

The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.

There are musicians who want to make a living making music. There are listeners who want to listen to music. Complicating this relationship is a whole bunch of history: some of the music I want to listen to was made a while ago in a different economy. Some of the models of making a living making music are no longer valid but persist.

The music industry is a matrix that is counter to what is natural and right.

To me, the music industry doesn't exist, it's like the devil, it doesn't exist if you don't believe in it.

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 think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in.

I have been skeptical and not trusting of traditional models of the entertainment industry. I never got a manager.

You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.

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

I truly believe, as an institution, most major labels should just die.

Music companies and buyers are not too encouraging towards independent musicians. Everyone wants to play safe and go with established names, but unless one breaks this routine, no new talent will come and survive.

The movie industry can be tricky and occasionally creepy, and I have this sense that the music industry is just shady as hell. I don't want to be a part of it.

The record industry is a world within itself.

The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.

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

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.'