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Quotes About Record company

When Alcatrazz played in Japan in early '84, the record label offered me the opportunity to do a solo album while continuing to play in the band. I wanted the whole album to have vocals, but the record company didn't want that. Initially, the album was released solely in Japan.
~ Yngwie Malmsteen
It's a battle between record company, between producer and between mastering engineer. Because the louder you make your record in a digital process, the more dynamics are squished out of it. Nobody knows exactly what happens, but the dynamics in the performance disappear, and everything is at the same volume.
~ Geddy Lee
I'm not interested in gigs unless I really want to do them. I walked away from music in 1997, and then there was a greatest hits in 2002. Thank God, it didn't do too well because the record company wouldn't promote it.
~ Pete Burns
My record company certainly wants me to play live, badly, but I have no such plans. My only motivation to do such a thing would be money, and I don't think that's a good reason to play live.
~ Varg Vikernes
In the mid-1970s, I even decided to make my own country album. I put the idea to my record company, thinking we'd just go into the studio in the U.K. and make a novelty album. But instead, they suggested I go to Nashville. I was flabbergasted. I hadn't expected that at all.
~ Vera Lynn
My main concern about coming back is being able to financially support it on my own. I don't want to depend on any record company to do it for me. But I have a fan base, people still streaming my music.
~ Tevin Campbell
No one was more surprised that that first Boston record took off than the record company itself.
~ Tom Scholz
I never had many problems to do my music and to give it to a record company. Rarely do they try to argue with me about my music, probably because it's still too far-out.
~ Klaus Schulze
It wasn't that we were afraid of the Church or the Vatican. The record company thought people might find the title offensive. They asked me if I would change ["A Deal with God"].
~ Kate Bush
Being sued by your own record company, that's even better than receiving a Grammy
~ Neil Young
It is true that the record company are always thinking of new ways to flog New Order to people.
~ Stephen Morris
When the oldest surviving record company goes all in on a conductor, everyone notices.
~ Andris Nelsons
If a film is not doing well, a record company will not take a chance with the score.
~ Henry Mancini
If you're part of a record company, you're a manufactured product. It doesn't mean that you're not talented.
~ Kylie Minogue
I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film.
~ Carson Daly
The record company didn't know what we looked like at first. They were all excited about our tapes.
~ Morten Harket
The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.
~ Paul Simon
And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it's catchy, and you've got a little bit of help, I think that's all you need. But there hasn't been that in music.
~ Joan Jett
My whole team, it wasn't about putting the album out, it was about getting off the record company and going independent or going to another label. To the point we were like, 'Listen, just take 'Lasers.' You can have whatever percentage off the next ten records I do for the rest of my life. I just do not want to be here anymore.'
~ Lupe Fiasco
I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen.
~ John Sebastian
When I was a teenager, I had a record company after me. They wanted me to be a pop act. They said they wanted me to be the next Sonia. I was 16 at the time. I said, 'No thank you.'
~ Imelda May
Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasn't it would be some kind of failure.
~ Roland Gift
The record company felt wisely that we should get something out before I left 'Hamilton' or around awards time, and that deadline was not easy.
~ Leslie Odom, Jr.
I don't respond well to time pressure - when you're in the studio, with the clock ticking, and the record company's waiting for you to lay a golden egg. Wherever it is my music comes from, it just doesn't show up when the pressure is on.
~ Corinne Bailey Rae