Quotes About Record companies

I understand quarterly billing, how the record companies run.

We were a very popular live band in London, packing in 6,000 people a night, and the record companies that came after us wanted us to be the flavor of the month.

There's no more record companies, so I have to get on the Internet and let people know the album is out there. I don't know if we're working for it, or if it's working for us.

Record companies, I found out, can put out compilations without your permission.

The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups.

I don't think that old-fashioned idea of record companies exists any more.

The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.

A lot of very popular mainstream artists are products of record companies and marketing companies, and any time anyone can stand outside of that, that's interesting.

When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - were run by people who loved records, people like Ahmet Ertegun, who ran Atlantic Records, who were record collectors. They got in it because they loved music... Now, record companies are run by lawyers and accountants.

Leaving Interscope was not a personal thing. These record companies are a certain kind of machine, and we weren't able to function in it.

Record companies are not unique. Artists are. Period!

Record companies don't think creatively about what something could possibly be because they are not filled with creative people. Nobody's looking at the future of music because they're concentrating so hard on what they can get from it right this second. It's really hard to see an artist; it's a lot easier to see money.

All record companies want big-selling records, and my music is a little too raw for commercial success.

I'm not a corporate machine. I'm not Lady Gaga, I'm not Madonna, I don't have a million dollars behind me and big giant record companies. I am an organic artist.

I challenge record companies to show me evidence of a single penny they've lost due to Napster.

Today's consumer is less interested in possessing things and more in experiencing them. That's something the music industry needs to get its head around. Do we even need record companies any more?

At the beginning, at my shows, there were a lot of press and people from record companies. Now there are people who are there to just listen to the music and are genuine fans.

Corporate America couldn't be more excited about the demise of the record companies.

There are good people in radio and the record companies, but there are others who are completely in the wrong job and holding music up in the process.

Record companies are not necessarily interested in you realizing your artistic dream. The bottom line is that they got to sell records.

When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - were run by people who loved records, people like Ahmet Ertegun, who ran Atlantic Records, who were record collectors. They got in it because they loved music.

By the time 1997 had rolled around, I had been in the music business for all my life, from the age of 15. I started recording professionally when I was 18. I had seen how record companies work, how the business works, and truth be told, I was pretty disgusted by everything by that time.

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.