#record business

My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business. ↗

— Norman Granz

#i #juices #needed #record #record business

He asked my girlfriend if we could come over and sing some of the songs that we had written, which we did. After he heard the songs, he said that he knew someone in the record business by the name of Bob Shad. ↗

— Phil Harris

#asked #bob #business #come #could

In my career, people in the record business have been rockin' in the same ol' boat. They all crooks - I'll say it clear and loud - especially the big ones. ↗

— John Lee Hooker

#big #big ones #boat #business #career

You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage. ↗

— Herb Alpert

#being #business #different #know #much

Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition. ↗

— T-Bone Burnett

#around #business #civilization #competition #everything

People in the record business would say, Well, Pras, you know, you haven't been out in a while, maybe you should get today's hottest producer or rapper to do something. ↗

— Pras Michel

#business #get #haven #hottest #know

But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#chance #different #else #i #me

I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today. ↗

— Tony Bennett

#billie #billie holiday #business #compared #followed

I guess that my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did was the biggest record that I'll ever have. ↗

— Alex Chilton

#biggest #business #did #ever #first

The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem. ↗

— T-Bone Burnett

#art #bands #business #compromise #dangerous