I was a fairly good amateur musician and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

I was always a singer. But I was always focused on being an actor as my trade. Music I do just for me. The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible.

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.

The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens Georgia and managed to get on um working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me.

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.

In the music business especially the country music business every 10 years or so you're going to have this changing of the guard this wave of new artists that comes in.

Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution yellow-pages directories landline telephones and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution.

I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in meaning the fame and the glory the glitter the rock star the famous part.

That's why I do this music business thing it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.

I'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s who are going away now they didn't like music. They didn't trust musicians. They wanted something else from it.

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

The stores and the things like that the business side of things came out at the point when I'd say probably in the early '70s it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out.

I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five thirty years earlier I think I would have made a lot more musical movies.

We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet the world we live in has changed and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.

I still have a lot to learn - about the business about music and about myself. Its exciting.

By 1969 when I celebrated 45 years in the music business I also had 45 people in our musical family.

I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.

I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate.

I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.

You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.

Music and the music business are two different things.

Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.

We're not uncomfortable with it and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving you know what I mean? It's too late for us.

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