Quotes About Industry

Record companies, they're just like lemmings.

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

Record companies tell me to play something more commercial, but I don't want to do anything else.

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?

There are very few record companies who will entertain a middle-aged woman coming to them with original material.

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

People don't really buy records anymore, so record companies won't invest in bands like us. They want cookie-cutter acts.

Giving a record company an album is like giving a gangster your baby or something.

The record company doesn't know what to do with me, because I'm not a Lily Allen, but I'm not really an indie artist, either. All the best artists have been in the middle.

I am not going to be dictated to by fans, certainly. I am dictated enough to by my record company to last me a million years.

If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road.

In those days it was pretty cut and dry. If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road.

Bananarama were written off from day one. Nobody believed in us but us. We kept having hits despite the record company, despite the press.

Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their music is owned by the record company. But I did mine through a production company.

It's not like it used to be where everybody has a record company to belong to.

It's always push and pull with a record company.

My number one goal is to take over the music business and run a really great record company.

We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell.

When it comes to the business side of it, as much as you might hate it, the reality is that you give the record company a sort of ownership of your songs, so you've got to make sure you're getting everything you can out of it now, because if you're not, then who is?

I don't know what record company would sign a 45-year-old former 80s pop star.

We had such a small budget making our first record, and the only way we could make it work was that the record company would find studio time in the middle of the night - literally, that was so cheap that we could afford to do it.

As a young singer, a record company wanted me to be a rock singer. I told them I couldn't because I didn't understand the music.

You got to understand: when you go into a record company and give them a something that doesn't sound like what's on the radio, it's hard to sell it.

I was never your average artist, happy to do whatever the record company told me.