"Your talent is only 10% of your business in music business, for real."
"Transcontinental records is not just a leader in the music industry, it's a key player in the business world."
"A lot of times, especially in hip-hop, the CEOs and cops are painted as the bad guys."
"People are already seeing the truth behind the music industry."
"If Hy was a true industry plant, they would have signed a better record deal than the one they did sign."
"By bringing 300 into the fold, we're creating a truly multi-genre operation designed to attract and nurture superstar talent across the musical spectrum." - Julie Greenwald
"The majors do not, no, no, no, no, no, no, it's not a fact, have money into the DSPs."
"The bubble has bursted...the structure for the music industry, it's over man."
"If I see an artist and I feel like he next and we about to get some money off this sh*t, then we gonna have that paperwork ready for him."
"Transform that passion for making music into a legitimate business that's gonna provide you with freedom and fulfillment."
"Life in the underground was me saying I have to separate learning the business from the music."
"Let's just repeat that: a music festival is not paying the people making the music."
"The music game is based off of streams that's what really count that's where your money coming from."
"This is not a marketing ploy. This is not a gimmick. This is the result of being pushed aside and treated like [] by the music industry for 10 plus [] years."
"I mean, I was they all had their own opinions about why they didn't want to sign things you know but for me I was just like this definitely not good deals."
"Being a creator feels like being an artist in the '90s. It's like the cross-collateralization of albums."
"The music industry is created as an illusion to bring people in that believe, 'oh once I make it in I'll be happy' and it's not."
"Birdman and his brother are two of the savviest operators in the music business. Love and dedication. We going to do it forever young money cash money."
"I think it's very important for y'all to understand that music business is like a compound word. Like you have to be official as an artist, handle your music. But you also have to understand your business and understand that business."
"I think both of them's important. Your stage presence, like touring and shows, is a very important part of the music business."
"That's the key to the music business: relationships."
"There's music and there's the music business, two different things."
"Rap, like any other genre, music is as much a business as it is an art."
"Neglecting the business side of Music isn't just a mistake, it's a misstep that could cost you your career."
"I walked up there, and it was crazy. We came to town, and people, we knew a lot about the music business because Shannon and I had made a lot of records."
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"Cash Money Records was started in 1991 by Brian 'Baby' Williams and his older brother Ronald 'Sugar Slim' Williams."
"Since he wrote more than half the bars on Straight Out of Compton, Ice Cube believed he should get more of the profits."
"Even though he called Cube Benedict Arnold for leaving the group, by '91 Dre was starting to have the same issues with the label."
"Rizza set out to use the models of companies like Motown and Stax to build a sound that would define the Wu-Tang."
"Dame had signed Jay-Z as an artist."
"There is no other business on the planet that has an ROI like the music business"
"One of my mentors many years ago in explaining the music business to me said it's a very simple business you find great artists you let them make great music and you figure out a way for people to hear it and see it and basically that's still the business."
"It's easier to find an investor than it is to find a record deal. Amazingly easier."
"If all you're doing is making music and not learning about the business, you're not in the music business."
"That's where the real money is in the music industry."
"The best way to go: owning your own masters, being independent, work harder, get out there, network, stay on social media, and if you succeed, the world is yours."
"If you think there's no money in the music business, you ain't in the music business."
"Be careful what type of business you're selling because if you're selling anything other than talent and anything other than good songs, you're in the wrong business."
"Don't give away no beats for free."
"The music industry is an interesting place."
"It's a classic like record label mistake, very massive error in judgment that affects your... doesn't really of course."
"If you're well-meaning for the music industry, before you speak, seek knowledge."
"Everyone is making more money except artists."
"There is a side of rock-and-roll that is a business and there is a side of rock-and-roll that is a discipline."
"It's so interesting how things change so quickly in the music industry."
"Universal Music Group generates over a million dollars every single hour."
"I'm trying to understand the business because the easiest part is by making the music."
"I just knew that there was never gonna be another moment in my life in the music business that was gonna rival that."
"The music business is making money again."
"The music business today is financially healthier than it's ever been."
"My first book on the industry is going to be 'Never Sign to a Rapper'."
"We have to open our minds and find another avenue of how they're going to communicate and survive in the game."
"It's important to know in the business there's down to a roadie all the way up to a business manager."