Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.
quote by Nile Rodgers
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Related quotes
Whether I'm doing music or I'm walking down the street or I'm in a record store buying a record or I walk into a comic store and I'm buying comics or having a drink with my friends, it's the same me.
quote by Glenn Danzig
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
I never called my work an 'art' It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
quote by Walt Disney
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music.
quote by Bobby Vinton
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Cheap Shot
Well the record company's goin' out of business
They price the records too damn high
And the boys in the band could use some assistance
Well the record company's goin' out of business
They price the records too damn high
And the boys in the band could use some assistance
Get a daytime job just to get by
Well the P.D.'s they won't play the record
They're too worried about that book
And the D.J's they all hate the song
But they're in love with the hook
Chorus
So na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na
I bet you've heard this song before
Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na
Take your cocaine and hit the door
Well folk rock, punk rock, power pop music
Turned out to be the latest trends
And ther ain't no more progressive music
The business has put it to an end
Ol' "Rolling Stone" has gathered some moss
No they ain't what they used to be
They try to look like "Look" with their political pages
And advertising all over T.V.
song performed by by John Mellencamp
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business.
quote by Ornette Coleman
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Entertainment
Theres been another assassination
T.v. cameras moving in.
To shoot the bloodstains on the pavement
And get them on the news at ten.
Will he live or will he die, before we go on the air?
Yes, the networks are all there, in the name of
Entertainment.
Superstar psycho, from a killer to a hero,
An overnight sensation on the lips of all the nation
Is he mad or is he sane? it makes for good conversation
I call it suffering and pain, but they call it entertainment
Sex violence murder and rape. (entertainment entertainment)
Thats what you came for, thats what you pay for.
Entertainment, entertainment.
They call it entertainment
Inform us, educate us with your media machine
(call it entertainment)
Tell me what to dream
(call it entertainment)
You pay your money, what do you get?
Entertainment.
Real life for entertainment,
Cheapens my reality,
So that hollywood can make it into another b movie
The vultures get the rating and the people get the thrills
But the victims always pay, I guess they always will.
Sex violence murder and rape (entertainment entertainment)
Thats what you want, thats what they need,
Thats what you came for, thats what your paying for.
They call it entertainment (call it entertainment)
Inform us, educate us with your media machine,
(call it entertainment)
Tell me what to dream
(call it entertainment)
You pay your money, what do you get?
Entertainment, entertainment.
song performed by by Kinks
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
I've never considered myself a celebrity or even part of the entertainment business. I'm a cooking teacher.
quote by Martin Yan
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
I enjoy being part of the entertainment industry, although I'm the laziest person that I've met yet in this business.
quote by Paul Hogan
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business.
quote by Juliana Hatfield
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
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.
quote by Tony Bennett
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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.
quote by Dweezil Zappa
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.
quote by Wim Wenders
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified.
quote by Jeremy Renner
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking a trend to death is not contributing to culture and is ultimately not profitable.
quote by Tony Visconti
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Music
Music is an art
Music is presided over by the Muses
Music combines sounds in a pleasing way
Music has common elements.
Music has pitch and melody
Music has harmony and rhythm
Music has tempo and meter
Music has sonic qualities of timbre.
Music is euphony or sweet sound
Music has harmonious qualities
Music is inspirational
Music opens the soul.
Music is energizing
Music is enriching
Music makes one happy
Music is relaxing.
Music is soothing
Music is entertainment
Music is lovable
Music is stirring.
Music moves one to tears
Music gives a spark
Music tunes a special memory
Music is a form of therapy.
Music fills with spiritual attunement
Music is a personal experience
Music takes us along the road of life
Music is the corner stone of every society.
poem by Chandra Thiagarajan
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment.
quote by Eartha Kitt
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.
quote by Dennis Farina
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Business Is Good
business is good today
the war has just began
we make more firearms
both parties are buying
and we sell them everything
business is booming
see to it that this war does not stop
or again we go bankrupt.
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.
quote by Calvin Coolidge
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!