Quotes tagged ‘Music Industry’

(6 total)

“You have to have confidence in this business. It's USELESS saying you don't need it. If you start saying to yourself, 'Maybe I'm not good enough, maybe I'd better settle for second place,' it's no good. If you like the icing on the top, you've got to have confidence.”

— Freddie Mercury, theguardian.com

“Charlie Haggers: You really planning to sell that fella's song for him in Nashville? Loretta Haggers: Yeah, I got to, y'know, I gave him my word. Charlie Haggers: That's a terrible song! And after what he had in mind to do to you. Loretta Haggers: Oh, honey, both he and his song are just sickeningly…”

— Ann Marcus, Jerry Adelman, Loretta Haggers, Mary Kay Place, imdb.com

“In this business, if you ever have any expectations, you will always be let down. So I don't expect anything.”

— Chester Bennington, revolvermag.com

“These pop songs almost feel like tabloid journalism, in a way. It's crap that people seem to like. And I don't know if it has meaning. I don't know if one of the pop songs of the summer has any fiber in it. People are consuming it, and is it healthy? I don't know. Maybe it's some kind of way of taki…”

— Eddie Vedder, rollingstone.com

“In the business, everybody is a fucking cartoon. And every once in a while, someone comes in that’s really fucking human. I like to think of myself as one of those artists.”

— Kid Cudi, billboard.com

“I’m a little bit of a mess at the moment and wanted to call you and put a voice to it,’ he says. The idea, in its original incarnation, was just to get our record out to people in a unique, different way.”

— Michael Finn, pastemagazine.com