Music Industry Quotes – Insightful Reflections on Music Business

"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

"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

"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

"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