Music Industry Quotes – Insightful Reflections on Music Business

"I could compose and write music and get to share it with the masses and the people around the world and to have them to receive it so beautifully - I love that."

Michael Jackson

"The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas."

Alan Kay

"The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money."

A. J. Liebling

"[Rock and the intellectual Left] must both be interpreted as parts of the cultural fabric of late capitalism. Their success comes from the bourgeois' need to feel that he is not bourgeois."

Allan Bloom

"Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at."

Murray Rothbard

"Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs."

Henry Ford

"A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one."

Henry Ford

"Even in the most beautiful music there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence."

Andrea Bocelli

"Show me who makes a profit from war, and I'll show you how to stop the war."

Henry Ford

"The problem is that there’s not enough money in music as a business model. Where in television and vis-a-vis the advertisers and movies, there’s so much money that the controlling forces still circle around the stars in the right way, stars are taken care of better in those industries. In the music industry it’s still very much this exploitative thing, it’s still very much people signing their lives away, the old deal-with-the devil stuff. That is still going on, it’s unbelievable in this day-and-age that this is still going on."

Billy Corgan

"Music can always serve a role in people's lives when it's emotional and warm and inviting and beautiful."

Moby

"You can sit down with Reason or Ableton and literally in a couple of hours make a very good-sounding record. But then a lot of people become contented with that, rather than pushing themselves to making something that sounds great."

Moby

"The main thing that excites me and makes me want to get out of bed is the thought of being able to go into my studio to work on music."

Moby

"My deepest gratitude to the Creator for His gift to me...the joy I receive in creating my music."

Michael Jackson

"The most beautiful thing for me about Formula E is the great sound of the diesel generators that are used to charge the batteries of the racing cars!"

Ulrich Baretzky

"Drug dealers know more about running a business than 95% of college professors."

Elon Musk

"We manipulate people like crazy in films and they love it. It’s a tremendous release. Every film composer mixes his experiences with a talent for musical manipulation, then projects that Machiavellian power gut to gut. The big thing about sexy music is the power of suggestion. A song with a porno lyric may cause laughter or embarrassment, but never an invitation to the bedroom. Sensual singing, an insistent beat that builds, suggestive lyrics — these are what turn people on today. One of the biggest motivations in record sales is the bedroom lure, which record companies all know about. Music is used everywhere to condition the human mind. Hitler used Wagner to win the German masses to Naziism. Our future music may be a frequency machine feeding impulses to our nervous system through electrodes or the ear, giving us highs and lows more powerful than any drugs in use today. And much more dangerous, too, because nobody takes musical manipulation very seriously."

Eddy Lawrence Manson

"As a self appointed messiah, I view music as far more than just entertainment"

John Denver