Edwin Starr Quotes

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

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.

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.

The music industry is very small.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Record companies worrying more about market share than developing artists - I hear there was a time when if your first record didn't sell 8m copies, you were still given a chance to grow as a songwriter.

I want to sell music. That's all I'm interested in selling.

The record business sucks!

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

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

The music industry is really difficult.

I'm really interested in the record industry and the artists and the problems they're having.

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

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.

When I was 17-years-old, I was in the music business.

Getting a record deal is a meaningless thing now.

I left the entertainment industry part of my life behind in 1983, when we decided not to work with major record companies anymore.

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.

Recorded music is more a marketing tool than a revenue source.