Music Industry Competition Quotes

I have spent my whole career worrying that the big bad pop monster was going to eat me when I wasn't looking.

Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?

J.T Woodland, known as “the cute one” in The Corporation’s seventh-grade boy band, Boyz Will B Boyz. Due to the success of their triple-platinum hit, “Let Me Shave Your Legs Tonight, Girl,” Boyz Will B Boyz ruled the charts for a solid eleven months before hitting puberty and losing ground to Hot Vampire Boyz.

After my first No. 1 song back in 2006, I worried I may never have another one.

There's no difference in dealing with the music business with the majors than any other competition. The music business is way more cutthroat than any other business.

Because the pop industry is cruel, if you don't do everything the label wants you to do, it has an army of other people waiting to do it.

There used to be this real sense of community integrity in rock. It has really eroded. Everyone seems to be on their own now.

I'm in a crazy business. The music industry is really tough, and I fight for my life. I just want to make everybody happy.

Exclusives are bad for artists, bad for consumers, and bad for the whole industry.

Nice guys just don't finish first in the music industry.

The music business used to carry a certain amount of brotherly love, but it isn't that way now.

The truth is that the music business is mean and honest and brutal.

As a music industry, if we remain in competition, then we die. We have to understand that we're all in this together. Collaboration and synergy, it's one of the most important things out there.

The people who talk on the edgier 'Song Exploder' have often made their entire record on their desktop. It's never been easier to compete, but it's never been harder to win, either.

I'm trying to be a professional singer. ... I've never been given the chance before. But here's hoping it'll change.

If Apple's a technology company in the music industry, why can't somebody in the music industry make technology?

I remember back in 1994 when the Eagles charged more than $100 for tickets. They said, 'We ain't Pearl Jam.' That's back when records were selling and the Eagles had sold just about as many as anyone on the planet. And years later we're still charging less than them.

It must be really hard to be starting out in music now.