A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants.
My greatest reward is knowing for certain, as I do with many other acts and artistes, that without Jonathan King being alive and involved, Genesis would not exist, and the guys would have had careers as intended - as accountants and lawyers!
I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.
The fact that people still know us is, in my opinion, a result of our music and of the big money that runs the music industry today. The people who control the industry are accountants who recycle everything in new, nostalgic packages, and everything else, to make more money.
Deals aren't usually blown by principals they're blown by lawyers and accountants trying to prove how valuable they are.
There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers.
I do hate sums. There is no greater mistake than to call arithmetic an exact science. There are permutations and aberrations discernible to minds entirely noble like mine subtle variations which ordinary accountants fail to discover hidden laws of number which it requires a mind like mine to perceive. For instance, if you add a sum from the bottom up, and then from the top down, the result is always different.
Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.
I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.
But we didn't have the financial structure, like the right attorneys, the right managers, the right accountants, and we were going against the grain of what black entertainers is supposed to do.
Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher social and moral status.
I'm against an income tax because all the rich people hire lawyers and accountants to be sure that they don't pay income tax.
All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.
I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big.
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