I was recently going back and forth on the IM with an old colleague...
Since leaving the record biz he's gone on to bigger and better things, working a 9 to 5 with a major telecommunications company. I told him not to bother coming back to the industry to which he replied "I don't know man, this music runs through my veins". I thought for a second and said "The music industry is cancerous---music is the cure---ain't no money in the cure, just the treatment"
We left it at that...