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The music is fun and all that, but first and foremost it is a business, it's about money.

I have known from the beginning one thing you need to know. That is, the music business is a business.

Yeah, man I am going to be writing a book soon. The reality of being in a rock band in the music business'.

TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling.

In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.

While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught.

We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.

In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.

Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.

That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.

Yeah, computers are going to take over the programming business because they have become so fast recently that they can solve the Halting Problem in five seconds flat.

There's always a great deal of business to be transacted in one's office. There are always visitors it seems to me, an unending stream of them, who come with letters of recommendation, or come actually on substantive business.

When you're eight years old nothing is your business.

I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.

I think that focusing on the money, on the business, is not enough.

If the Europeans want to intervene, that's their business. But if I were president, I would remove every United States soldier from the Balkan peninsula.

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.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.