Page McConnell Quotes

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

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.

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 Some of the models of making a living making music are no longer valid but persist.

Everyone has learned how to monetize music except the music industry.

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.

Tell me a musician who's got rich off digital sales. Apple's doing pretty good though, right?

I'm lucky that I enjoy touring as much as I do. I'm not going to make a living just making records.

There's no money in music. I know that. I think the whole world should know that.

Playing live and making a living from music was always the only goal.

It's called the music business. We've all gone into it 'cause we love the music, and a lot of people end up with nothing at the end of the day, after they've done all of this great music, 'cause they never learned any of the business side.

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.

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.

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

Music and the music business are two different things.

I'd hate to be a songwriter starting a career today.

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.

As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn't have a day job.

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

Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.

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 industry is very small.

Since the traditional recorded-music business models have drastically changed, there is truly diminished income derived from recorded music by artists - both current and catalog. The touring industry has become much more important as a majority revenue stream and the ancillary fan experiences and promotions that may be derived from it.

I recorded with Sinatra, but the recording business is a very strange strata right now.