Recording Industry Quotes

#1. I'm not a businessman, so I don't know how to solve the problems of the recording industry.

Joshua Bell

#2. I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.

Adam Lambert

#3. Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well.

Ahmad Jamal

#4. Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal.

Suzanne Fields

#5. The recording industry has changed; they're enjoying such incredible success in the pop field.

Gerry Mulligan

#6. I'm not a slave to the recording industry. I have the freedom to make an album that I want to make and do it the way I want.

Ziggy Marley

#7. One reason for the bustle was that over large parts of the continent other people preferred to make money without working at all, and since the Disc had yet to develop a music recording industry they were forced to fall back on older, more traditional forms of banditry.

Terry Pratchett

#8. Pop was initially ignored as a moneymaker by the recording industry. In the seventies they were still relying on Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett for their big hits. You know, most of the budget for the record companies in those days went to the classical department - and those were big budget albums.

Tony Visconti

#9. My intention when I came into this industry was to be a musician, not necessarily a recording artist, just a musician in general. And that's the reason I went to college and got my degree, which has been great for me. It's helped me a lot with my career.

Jon Secada

#10. The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape.

John Philip Sousa

#11. TiVo and other digital recording devices have confounded advertisers. The ad industry sees the technology as a threat to their product.

Simon Sinek

#12. But then the memory - not yet of the place in which I was, but of various other places where I had lived and might now very possibly be - would come like a rope let down from heaven to draw me up out of the abyss of not-being, from which I could never have escaped by myself:

Marcel Proust

#13. Sometimes I manage to get conditions alleviated, often not.

Helen Suzman

#14. Could the best and kindest of us who depart from the earth have an opportunity of revisiting it, I suppose he or she (assuming that any Vanity Fair feelings subsist in the sphere whither we are bound) would have a pang of mortification at finding how soon our survivors were consoled.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#15. The French, perhaps more than any other nation, cherish the memory of their dead by ornamenting their places of sepulture with the finest flowers, often renewing the garlands and replacing such plants as decay with vigorous and costly ones.

Dorothea Dix

#16. She never says gracias because life is made of survival not grace, she says, and servants are paid to bring what they're asked.

Barbara Kingsolver

#17. Common consensus is not thought but wishful thinking.

Ernst Pawel

#18. What do you want to be, free or happy? How about if they really are mutually exclusive options? What is freedom anyway? How does humanity govern itself when each person can have anything they want? How does humanity govern itself when nothing is natural?

Jo Walton

#19. Give someone responsibility and they will do their best. Make them accountable and they will do even better.

Simon Sinek

#20. It's so easy for shows to be gritty and handheld and shaky and really tight in people's faces.

Cary Fukunaga

#21. We can't be responsible for other people's reactions to us, Lakshmi," she said. "We can only make sure our intentions are good.

Thrity Umrigar

#22. I've learned that things change, people change, and it doesn't mean you forget the past or try to cover it up. It simply means that you move on and treasure the memories. Letting go doesn't mean giving up ... it means accepting that some things weren't meant to be.

Lisa Brooks

#23. They wanted to manipulate our songs - our fantastic, well-written songs with a soulful drive - beautiful English R&B - and turn them into pop rubbish. We might as well have been writing children's lullabies for all that did for me. We had to get away from that asshole.

Diane Rinella

#24. Like when the counselor delved into your habits of using a public toilet, such as do you flush with your foot and use your elbow to open the door? If yes, woe unto you. You're crazy.

Charles Frazier

#25. With the advent of radio and recording, music became an industry rather than just a tradition.

Arlo Guthrie

#26. This enraged the other Nazi so much that the next morning he came to our house and he shot my father.

Bruno Schulz

#27. Like any self-governing group of people, the Recording Academy has made missteps over the years. Still, it has corrected course and done more to open its arms to the future than nearly any other industry group around.

Shawn Amos

#28. The higher the better. It's more about an attitude. High heels empower women in a way.

Christian Louboutin

#29. If you put on an item of clothing that hurts just because you have an idea it looks better or conforms to what other people are wearing, it's dumb.

Andy Rooney