Music Careers Quotes

All of these people kept on being professional musicians and composers in the strictest sense.

If I was rich enough, I would love to launch my own record label. I would love to try and give all my musically talented friends a start in the industry.

Record labels today are much less patient: Artists have a bad record, and they're gone.

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.

Here at Z100, we're kind of famous for breaking new artists and watching their careers bloom.

The band will be going along, and somebody or another will say, 'I want to go off and do a solo career.'... They come back, and other people come in.

It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers.

As musicians, we are quite literally singing for our supper. Don't get me wrong, I love touring, but the reality is that our idols from the '70s and '80s never toured this hard. They'd do a record, have one big world tour, maybe two, then break to do another record.

Short-sighted music fans might scoff at the revivalism of, say, Ariel Pink, but plenty of acts have built healthy careers around the art of bringing back the past.

I was trained in classical piano, but it kind of dawned on me that classical pianists compete for six job openings a year, and the rest of us get to play 'Blue Moon' in a hotel lobby.

There were a lot of gifted amateurs in my day. Most of the kids now play fantastically well. I think there are so many bands around now who might get there, but it's a tougher journey.

Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die.

I feel there must be an enormous amount of really talented songwriters out there who can't sing.

I'm an advocate for women to become more aware of the different positions in the music industry.

I feel like artists like Three 6 Mafia and 8 Ball and MJG reached a point in their careers where they were hot and underground.

Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.

Music is quicksilver, gossamer; careers are measured in butterfly lifetimes.

Well, the music industry is littered with actors who belatedly came to singing.

Well, basically Corey and I were in Stone Sour before we joined Slipknot.

Before I'd even started doing music or having opportunities with my own music, I was studying production and business and stuff anyway. I knew there were so many jobs within the music industry - songwriting or session playing or working at a label - and I was really interested in how it all works.

Over the years it has been my privilege to lead performances with Saint Louis, the National Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra and so many other wonderful organizations.

There are a lot of bands and performers whose careers are permanently derailed by spectacularly bad management.

My brother is the lead singer of The Torn, and my parents are in a country duo.

I'm just glad that I'm the musical equivalent of a character actress, because blues singers can keep singing and having an audience at 35, and someone like Madonna's gonna have to find something else to do, 'cos I don't care how pointy those bras are that she wears, they're still gonna look a little odd when she's 55!

Most music careers slowly but surely go down.