Business Quotes
“If you say, 'I'm going to cut this song because I know the teenagers are going to love it,' well, then you're going to alienate everybody else. When I cut my record, I'm just going to cut the things that I like, and whoever likes it, likes it. That's too much work to try to figure out the demographic. That's too much like a business.”
“Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.”
-- William Feather
“The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.”
-- Taylor Swift
“I'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn't like music. They didn't trust musicians. They wanted something else from it.”
-- James Taylor
“Now I know that Wal-Mart's policies do not reflect the best way of doing business and the values that I think are important in America.”
-- Hillary Clinton
“When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.”
-- Flannery O'Connor
“Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority.”
-- Jim Carrey
“Business practices and how we treat the planet are also in desperate need of re-humanization.”
-- Simon Mainwaring