Chrissie Hynde Quotes

Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.

The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.

I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.

As long as someone wants to hear my music, I don't care if it's a ringtone or the album or whatever.

The biggest problem is always getting hits. That's the one thing that has never changed. The way of delivering music has changed, the way of listening to it has changed, the way of distributing it has changed, but it's always the music.

I'm making music for the people. If y'all love the music, y'all gonna buy the music.

I don't get to listen to music for fun very often; a lot of what I'm hearing is for work and isn't released yet.

Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.

First of all I listen to music. I like music.

There is still a future with music, because people want music.

I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there.

I don't even listen to the records after they come out. It's outlawed in my house. My wife and my kids can't play any of my music around me. Once it comes out, for me, it's just business. Numbers.

I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have.

It used to be that creative music was most of the music that you heard back in the '30s and '40s, and now it's like 3 percent. So, its kind of a struggle getttin' it out there.

The music industry is so cool because it's constantly changing.

I didn't realize how polarized an industry like music can be.

I don't keep up with music.

Most companies that are successful listen to people and see what they want and they make that. So when I used to make songs, I'd make mixtapes. The public would tell me what they like and then I would make songs based on what they like. That's how I knew 'Ridin' Dirty' was going to be big - they told me they liked this kind of music.

I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades.

I love music. I listen to a lot of it.

I like music, a lot of different types of music.

The public doesn't want new music.

I enjoy touring. I enjoy recording the music, I enjoy dreaming it and I enjoy performing it. I also definitely enjoy selling it, because I like to eat.

D.C. is one my largest audiences. They buy tons of records of mine in Washington, D.C.

I just don't get that new hot music. I don't know anything about all these groups like U2.