Music Industry Quotes – Reflections on the Music Business
Thoughtful music industry quotes on creativity, culture, and the evolving landscape of the music business.
This collection of music industry quotes offers deep insights into the cultural and economic significance of the music business. Words from artists, producers, and experts illuminate the balance between creativity and commerce. The quotes reflect trends, challenges, and developments shaping the music industry. They serve as thoughtful content for anyone interested in the impact of music on society and culture.
"The loud sounds and bright lights are tremendous indoctrination tools; it is possible to modify the human chemical structure with the right combination of frequencies. If the right kind of beat makes you tap your foot, what kind of beat makes you curl your fist and strike?"
Frank Zappa
"Our music is capable of causing emotional instability, disorganized behavior, rebellion and even revolution."
The Beatles
"Atmospheres are going to come through music...You can hypnotize people with the music and when you get them at their weakest point, you can preach into the subconscious what you want to say."
Jimi Hendrix
"I never thought I'd live to see the day when the right wing would become the cool ones giving the middle finger to the establishment, and the left wing becoming the sniveling self-righteous twatty ones going around shaming everyone."
John Joseph Lydon
"Our society is run by mad men, for crazy targets. I think we are driven by mad men, to a mad end, And I think I am imprisoned as a madman because I say that. That is what's insane about it."
John Lennon
"When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle is non-violence and humor."
John Lennon
"Peace is only got by peaceful methods. To fight the establishment with their own weapons is no good because they always win and they’ve been winning for thousands of years. They know how to play the game 'violence'. What they don’t know how to handle is peaceful humour"
John Lennon
"Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones."
John Lennon
"I've had cocaine, but I don't like it. The Beatles had lots of it in their day, but it's a dumb drug, because you have to have another one 20 minutes later. Your whole concentration goes on getting the next fix. Really, I find caffeine is easier to deal with. … A little mushroom or peyote is not beyond my scope, you know, maybe twice a year or something. You don't hear about it anymore, but people are still visiting the cosmos. We must always remember to thank the CIA and the Army for LSD. That's what people forget. … They invented LSD to control people and what they did was give us freedom. Sometimes it works in mysterious ways its wonders to perform."
John Lennon
"“It’s so many of our children that are being vaccinated and paralyzed. . . . So when they say the way we’re going to fix Covid is with a vaccine, I’m extremely cautious. That’s the mark of the beast. They want to put chips inside of us, they want to do all kinds of things, to make it where we can’t cross the gates of heaven. I'm sorry when I say they, the humans that have the Devil inside them. And the sad thing is that, the saddest thing is that we all won’t make it to heaven, that there’ll be some of us that do not make it.”"
Kanye West
"Musicians are stupid, lazy and greedy"
Frank Zappa
"Whoever controls the media, controls the mind, the medium is the message and the message is me"
Jim Morrison
"If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian."
Sir James Paul McCartney
"We need to realize that these are beings that suffer the same as we suffer. They want freedom the way we want freedom."
Russell Simmons
"I am a firm believer in eating a full plant-based, whole food diet that can expand your life length and make you an all-around happier person. It is tricky dining out, but I just stick to what I know - veggies, fruit and salad - then when I get home I'll have something else."
Ariana Grande-Butera
"Be the voice of those who can’t say …..’stop.’ Who can’t say ‘that hurts.’ Who can’t say ‘I’m so afraid to die.’ Be the voice of the animals!"
Miley Ray Cyrus
"I don't like to mix politics and rock 'n' roll, i don't look at Bono, Sting and Bruce Springsteen as political. I look at them as being humanitarian. I'll contribute to anything humanitarian. Helping people who can't help themselves. But when musicians are telling people who to vote for, I think that's an abuse of power. You're telling your fans not to think for themselves, just to think like you. Rock 'n' roll is about freedom — and that's not freedom."
Alice Cooper
"You can't call any one person the devil. Because no one person has the power to be the devil."
Earl Simmons DMX