Music Industry Profits Quotes

I think too much of the music industry is for the lawyer and accountant mentality.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn't make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

The music industry wants safe rock stars, people who are totally homogenised.

There's much more money being brought into the advertising and communications business than in the music industry.

What I saw in the record industry is it's just getting more restricted, more restricted, more restricted to where everyone's trying to figure out what kind of song to make to get on the radio: that's researched and where advertisers are telling you what to play.

When it comes to the business side of it, as much as you might hate it, the reality is that you give the record company a sort of ownership of your songs, so you've got to make sure you're getting everything you can out of it now, because if you're not, then who is?

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

It's unfortunate that music has become such big business.

When people say Jerry Lee Lewis invented rock n' roll, they forget Little Richard. People talk about Elvis Presley and forget he was singing black music. I don't blame Elvis. It was the music business figuring it could make more money from this music if it weren't presented from the original source.

The music industry is up and down. Sometimes the people love you, and sometimes they don't. I wanted to be the owner of multiple businesses that were financially profitable and sustainable.

Yeah, the industry has always been both the enemy and the best friend of the artist. They need each other. That's the bottom line.

More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result of my record helping people to accept hip hop.

The record industry is still pissed off that other people are making money off their business, even if it promotes their products and increases their sales. I think they're still mad about radio.

The music industry is rolling in cash...

I try to be respectful about getting an honor or recognition, but I don't really know what the Rock Hall actually is. In my experience with the people who run it, I don't see it having to do with anything other than them making money.