Moby Quotes

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.

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

The music industry is very small.

Things can turn ugly so quickly in the music business, especially if you have an unexpected success.

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 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.

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

I have always abhorred the business end of music.

Music and the music business are two different things.

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.

Yeah, man I am going to be writing a book soon. The reality of being in a rock band in the music business'.

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.

Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business.

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

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.

The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer.

I had business experience. I had made my living designing and building electronic equipment. Basic business was not new to me, but the music business was completely new to me. I knew nothing about distribution, or any of those things.

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

By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum.

I was never in the business of trying to put my name out there - I was really focused on music and records and being in the studio.

The Philadelphia/New York world of the music business is a tough place to be.

The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing.