Music Industry Quotes – Insightful Reflections on Music Business

"Most patients probably assume that when a doctor proposes to use an established treatment to conquer a disease he will be using a treatment which has been tested, examined and proven. But this is not the case. The savage truth is that most medical research is organised, paid for, commissioned or subsidised by the drug industry (and the food, tobacco and alcohol industries). This type of research is designed, quite simply, to find evidence showing a new product is of commercial value. The companies which commission such research are not terribly bothered about evidence; what they are looking for are conclusions which will enable them to sell their product. Drug company sponsored research is done more to get good reviews than to find out the truth."

Dr. Vernon Coleman

"In the last century the practice of medicine has become no more than an adjunct to the pharmaceutical industry and the other aspects of the huge, powerful and immensely profitable health care industry. Medicine is no longer an independent profession. Doctors have become nothing more than a link connecting the pharmaceutical industry to the consumer."

Dr. Vernon Coleman

"Our profession is like that of actors. Without approval from outside, we wither away."

Helmut Schmidt

"In fact, the modern doctor is nothing more than an extension of these (medical) industries into the public sphere."

Dr. med. Carl Reich

"All the real work is done in the rehearsal period."

Donald Pleasence

"I was offered a choice of a flat salary up front or a percentage of the film's future earnings. I took the up front money. Nobody could have figured what Halloween would ultimately become."

Donald Pleasence

"You don't need a record deal. You'll have the industry begging for you, when you build your buzz."

Russell Simmons

"Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music."

Allan Bloom

"If Nirvana had remained a small, underground punk rock band, Kurt Cobain would still be alive. And he'd probably be living in Seattle, getting kind of fat and balding, be relatively happy and producing records for other people."

Moby

"It just seems like musicians want to sell a few records and put out a perfume line, and I think it's so sad that there are so many musicians who don't want to change the world."

Moby

"Music is the soundtrack to life. It plays the melody of our being."

Michael Jackson

"With my music, with what I do, I would like to bring a light into the world."

Michael Jackson

"Even in the most beautiful music, there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence. Silence is more important than ever, as life today is full of noise. We speak a lot about environmental pollution but not enough about noise pollution."

Andrea Bocelli

"Music is able to make a person dream. When you dream, you dream of something good, something beautiful, and when you dream, you always dream of yourself better than you are."

Andrea Bocelli

"The nature of music is mysterious and so much so that it generates strong emotions within us. It moves along passages that reach the most intimate areas of our psyche without being tried by prejudices or influences of any kind."

Andrea Bocelli

"When I was very young, I started trying to sing like the great tenor Mario Lanza; my family used to play his records. We all learn best by imitating others."

Andrea Bocelli

"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business."

Henry Ford

"Industry is a better horse to ride than genius."

Walter Lippmann