Jackson Browne Quotes

It's a small percentile of people who see one dime out of the music business.

I've always treated the music business as a business.

You learn at a certain point that you have to focus on the business side of music. After getting ripped off a couple of times, you figure out that you need to get a grip on it.

I have known from the beginning one thing you need to know. That is, the music business is a business.

Everyone has learned how to monetize music except the music industry.

As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving.

If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.

Music can be so disturbing and frustrating. I mean the business side of it. The actual making music part is fun, but the business side of it is just so out of control, has nothing to do with anything.

I used to read music books when I was 13. My mom was working at a library. She's a librarian. I would get my mom to check out any kind of books that had anything to do with the music industry. I read a lot about royalities, publishing, marketing, stuff like that.

Sheet music, recording, radio, television, cassettes, CD burners, and file sharing have all invalidated, to some extent, the old model of making a living making music.

We were not given any statistics as to how many records were pressed on the blue label. I used to ask Bob Shad how we were going to get paid from record sales and what I got for an answer was not to worry about the business end of the deal.

I had business experience. I had made my living designing and building electronic equipment. Basic business was not new to me, but the music business was completely new to me. I knew nothing about distribution, or any of those things.

Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.

The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing.

That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.

The music business is really a spiritual business whether we know it or not.

I have always abhorred the business end of music.

Music and the music business are two different things.

The labels are in a jam. For a company to do well in music now, it's got to be in all aspects of the business. And Live Nation is the risk-taker. It's leading the charge.

To some extent, the idea that rock 'n roll used to have this sort of free antediluvian identity, frolicking in the 1950s with Elvis or something, is totally wrong. It's insane. Elvis' relationship with Colonel Parker, his manager, was one of the most possibly corrupt, certainly lucrative, and intense business partnerships ever in rock n' roll.

I'm an indie artist with major distribution, so one foot in the extreme major music business and one foot in the abyss of indie artists.

The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.

I don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot - the methods of releasing music.

If you had ever heard my album you would know that I could never consider the music business!