Quotes About Industry

I'm in a great position now where I've got recognition. I'm not recognized too much. I think I'm recognized enough by the industry.

England used to be known for making beautiful things. Then we became the rag trade, known for our street fashions, which were picked up around the world. I want us to be recognized for quality. We have the hands to make the clothes. What we need is the motivation.

Now we're in an environment where women are increasingly having a huge impact and adding a lot of value to our industry. And women are celebrated if they raise their hand and say, 'Hey, you're missing my value. You're not recognizing what I'm doing.'

We're thinking of creating a board of experts across the sectors of industry, to identify successful programs and to make recommendations about programs that are working and aren't working.

It used to be that you made an album and then you went on the road to promote that album, hoping for good record sales. Well, good record sales basically don't exist any more, and the emphasis has been more on the live show.

You're only as good as your last record and you could get dropped.

People in the record business would say, Well, Pras, you know, you haven't been out in a while, maybe you should get today's hottest producer or rapper to do something.

The record industry is a world within itself.

There are no record companies in Waikiki.

The record companies didn't want 'Stony Road,' and it ended up being a gold album. They didn't want 'Blue Guitars,' and we did 165,000 books.

There aren't enough people who are scaring the kind of people who work at these record companies.

I left the entertainment industry part of my life behind in 1983, when we decided not to work with major record companies anymore.

Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live.

Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame.

The intentions of record companies are not good, from the musician's perspective.

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.

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.

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.