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“Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“You know the saying? Don't go in if you don't have a skin.”
― Jackie Williams, A Perfect Summer

“Music is the fastest motivator in the world.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Well, I know a guy, he's from far far away
He's a songwriter, he got something to say
He says, "People in this city are too busy to hang out
This town's so spread out, no one would hear you if you shout"

Everyone's got a script to sell and someplace else they want to be
There's always a lock that would open if you could just find the key"

(It Ain't Easy Being Green)”
― Shannon McNally

“It's not my job to tell people how to consume music. I just want them to consume music.”
― Eric Alper

“As a singer, she's in the music industry. As a duck farmer, I’m in the noise business. The product I pulse through the air invisibly is better for your ears.”
― Jarod Kintz, Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.

“The marketing geniuses on the corporate side of the country music labels had decided to start using focus groups to test their products before they were developed or released. An example of this would be to ask the focus group whether they liked sad songs or happy songs. “We like happy songs!â€� the focus group would chirp, and the word would go back to the writers and producers to come up with “happyâ€� songs to record. This made it especially hard on the songwriters, who rarely feel a need to write when they are happy, as then they are busy luxuriating in the pleasure of happiness. When something bad happens, they want to find a way to transcend it, so they write a song about it. When Hank Williams, one of the greatest and most successful country artists of all time, wrote a song like “Your Cheatinâ€� Heartâ€� or “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry,â€� he wasn’t writing “happyâ€� songs, yet they made the listener feel better. The listener could feel that someone else had gone through an experience similar to the listener’s own, and then went to the trouble and effort to write it down accurately and share the experience like a compassionate friend might do. In this way, hearing a song like “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cryâ€� could make the listener feel better, or “happy.”
― Linda Ronstadt, Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir

“The most devastating thing artists can do to their career is get in their own way, and way too many people do. It's not the labels, the industry, the fans, the cities, the economy, the social media, the marketing, the promoting, the 'right time,' the music, or whatever other excuse you can come up with that determines whether you succeed or you fail. It is you, no one else,”
― Loren Weisman, The Artist's Guide to Success in the Music Business: The "Who, What, When, Where, Why & How" of the Steps that Musicians & Bands Have to Take to Succeed in Music

“Artists of today can be inspired by the past, but they have to apply present methods if they want a future in music.”
― Loren Weisman

“Only Getting the A and Z with out the B through Y, leaves you SOL.”
― Loren Weisman, The Artist's Guide to Success in the Music Business: The "Who, What, When, Where, Why & How" of the Steps that Musicians & Bands Have to Take to Succeed in Music

“The most devastating thing artists can do to their career is get in their own way, and way too many people do. It’s not the labels, the industry, the fans, the cities, the economy, the social media, the marketing, the promoting, the “right time,â€� the music, or whatever other excuse you can come up with that determines whether you succeed or you fail. It is you—no one else.”
― Loren Weisman, The Artist's Guide to Success in the Music Business: The “Who, What, When, Where, Why & Howâ€� of the Steps that Musicians & Bands Have to Take to Succeed in Music

“The music industry is a great case study for how value can ripple out through an economic ecosystem and how compensation for that value ripples back to the originators of that value.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Try not to sound like those singer-songwriters that go on and on with ten-minute, barely intelligible stories that everyone endures until the next song starts.”
― Loren Weisman, The Artist's Guide to Success in the Music Business: The "Who, What, When, Where, Why & How" of the Steps that Musicians & Bands Have to Take to Succeed in Music

“Success in the music industry isn’t something that you wait for or hope for. It is something that you create, day after day.”
― Simon S. Tam, Music Business Hacks

“The average artist has a naïve, unrealistic, and disconnected view of what the music industry is, how it works, what is involved in “making itâ€�, and what actually is happening behind the scenes. Too many artists take at face value what they see on some TV documentary or read in a fan magazine. Whether you are working with others in a band, looking to connect with a manager, an agent, a label, or an investor, or you just want to work in the industry, it is more crucial than ever to know what you are working for and toward.”
― Loren Weisman, The Artist's Guide to Success in the Music Business: The “Who, What, When, Where, Why & Howâ€� of the Steps that Musicians & Bands Have to Take to Succeed in Music

“I'd gotten used to lip-synching without blushing; that's the way it was done. Very few shows were live. We were getting a little bit cynical about the tripe market. You realized that you were really in one of the sleaziest businesses there is, without actually being a gangster. It was a business where the only time people laughed was when they'd screwed someone else over.”
― Keith Richards, Life

“Just because this industry loves youth doesn’t mean you’re grown.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, All Things Weird & Strange

“You realized that you were really in one of the sleaziest businesses there is, without actually being a gangster. It was a business where the only time people laughed was when they'd screwed someone else over.”
― Keith Richards, Life

“Through the passage of time there was one format that could rival the sound quality of any other, the analog reel-to-reel tape recorder, and this is her story. The reel-to-reel recorder was critical to the widespread surge in global music consumption in the 1950's and beyond, even sound engineers of today will tell you that the reel-to-reel format is extremely high in fidelity, and with the correct tape, the correct usage and right machine, wonders can still be recorded in the recording studio using magnetic reel-to-reel tape recorders”
― Dwayne Buckle, Analog: The Art & History Of Reel-To-Reel Tape Recordings

“I don't know. It's difficult being nice. I do like to be positive and I do like to do the right thing and I do like harmony. I don't get off on being a ... (whispers) 'cunt'.”
― Billy Mackenzie

“They didn't understand my sound; the demo had songs that didn't fit neatly into an existing genre....My demo was more diverse than the music industry at the time.”
― Mariah Carey

“The gospel should always be spread, your lover boy's in town.”
― Khan Givas

“Music arrives when the Muse comes around.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Rap music is the newspaper of black people.”
― Jason Tanz, Other People's Property: A Shadow History of Hip-Hop in White America

“In the modern music industry, the streaming platforms, in their infinite wisdom, dictate what reaches our ears. The vicious cycle of recommendation engines often confines artists to their established genres, trapping them in an echo chamber of their own sound. God forbid someone ventures into new territory; the algorithms scoff and say, "No, sir, we're sticking to the algorithmically approved beats.”
― Rove Monteux

“I find it an interesting concept, that of The House. I dreaded it terribly for years but my own shoulders have long been crushed under it. Yet, still I rose and fear it no more.
The House is not just our ancestral home of Somerset Hall. That may be its physical aspect, but the concept spans so much wider than the estate itself. The House is a whole dynamic yet, timeless concept, that passes from generation to generation, probably until the end of the World. And even so, I am not so certain about that.”
― LUMI, Eleanora's Sundown

“The true tragedy of life does not lie in dreaming big and falling short; it lies in dreaming too small and achieving those meager dreams. Sadly, this is precisely what is happening in today’s world. These toxic cultural environments encourage us to settle for dreams far beneath our true potential, motivating us to pursue vulgar and base desires that will never fulfill our genuine purpose in life.”
― ENRIC MESTRE ARENAS, THE MODERN WORLD AGAINST THE HUMAN SOUL: Exploring modernity's impact on the human spirit and well-being

“Do not be surprised when the educated executives working for the major record labels have approved for everyone to hear such a vast amount of decadent and shameful lyrics. The primary objective of such music is not to create artful masterpieces or provide wholesome entertainment. Instead, from the very beginning of the production process, the intention has been to forge a degraded and intellectually inert vocabulary that aims to gradually dumb down the listener, bit by bit.”
― Enric Mestre Arenas, THE MODERN WORLD AGAINST THE HUMAN SOUL: Exploring modernity's impact on the human spirit and well-being

“I explained my experience after ten years in the Los Angeles music industry. The ruthless competition. The scheming sharks looking for any opportunity to devour the weak. The masks that many wear to conceal a cold, calculated agenda. The transactional conversations disguised as friendly interactions. How the desperation to get a little more recognition, to get a little closer to an artist, to get that Instagram mention or land a spot on Billboard’s 30 under 30 list, drives even the most kind and empathetic people to view others as a mere utility.”
― T. A. Rhodes, The Lost Art of Searching: Embracing Uncertainty, Discovering Intrinsic Value, and Charging Through Life One Ride at a Time

“As long as you allow mediocrity to be the height of your enthusiasm, as long as you allow it to be the very peak of your potential, to be the voice of your culture, then, yes, the machine will replace you.”
― C. Sean McGee, eN