Thursday, July 22, 2010

Music Industry Quotes

"Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear." Frank Zappa

"Just because it happened to you, doesn't mean it's interesting" Dennis Hopper (Search and Destroy)

"Just because you can record, doesn't mean you should." Christopher Knab, FourFront Media and Music

"Independent labels take nothing and make something out of it. Major labels buy that something, and try to make more out of it." Tom Silverman, Tommy Boy Records CEO

"When you hear my records today...you hear a vanilla sounding artist with no black inflection, although I was trying to imitate what I heard." Pat Boone

"You go through stages where you wonder whether you are Christ, or just looking for him." David Bowie

"You've gotta be business savvy really, or elso you get the piss taken out of you." Melanie B, Spice Girls

"Actually I don't know if honesty is a strength or some kind of weakness." Ani DeFranco

"That's not easy to find in a corporate world, somebody who cares about music." Michael Penn, musician

"It's magazines like HITS that have to label things." Nina Gordon, Veruca Salt

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