You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The only way to get ahead in the music business these days is to call up all your friends. To pool your resources.
The music business is the most childish business in the world. Nobody knows what they're selling or why, but they sell it if it works.
The nature of the music business is such that it's better to have a few chances for some things to be successful than just one, and that's kind of been my attitude all along.
The first thing you learn about the music business is that it changes very quickly. You come into it at a certain point and you think you have a handle on it... And then, three years later, the whole thing has been turned upside-down.
The music business has changed incredibly. There used to be 50 record companies. Now there's only three, and it's just getting smaller and smaller. But then again, you have the Internet, so anybody who has music can get it out there.
You learn at a certain point that you have to focus on the business side of music. After getting ripped off a couple of times, you figure out that you need to get a grip on it.
In business, you can have one massive success that earns $50 million overnight, and that's it. You're successful. End of story. But in the music business, you have to keep on doing it.
As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving.
I have known from the beginning one thing you need to know. That is, the music business is a business.
Things can turn ugly so quickly in the music business, especially if you have an unexpected success.
No opposing quotes found.