A couple of my favorite quotes about music and the biz

Here is a few of my favorite quotes about music and the biz what is some of yours.


A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. ~Leopold Stokowski


Music is what feelings sound like. ~Author Unknown

[An intellectual] is someone who can listen to the "William Tell Overture" without thinking of the Lone Ranger. ~John Chesson


Don't try to explain it, just sell it." Colonel Tom Parker

"Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear." Frank Zappa

"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."
--Hunter S. Thompson

"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it."
- John Lennon -

You have a better chance of being struck by lightning and winning the lotto on the same day than you doing making it big in music. I still buy lotto tickets but run when I hear thunder, maybe thats why I haven't made it yet!.
Ken McCoy