Quotes About Industry

The record company has fought for themselves, never for me.

I don't like record company people very much, so I don't want to be one of them.

Getting a record deal is a meaningless thing now.

There isn't a single artist out there, I'm sure, who wouldn't take the most perfect record deal. If the right record deal came along, like, the perfect deal, we'd definitely take it.

I was never supposed to get a record deal - that's one in a million.

When I tried to get a record deal, only one label wanted me. The rest said 'oh, we've already got a girl with a guitar.' Can you imagine them ever saying that to a guy?

If a new artist comes, and he doesn't have a good record label to invest in him, then there is no point.

I don't get involved in record label politics.

When I first started out in the music industry and went to Elektra Records, I didn't go to be an artist, I went to get a record label started. And they said in order to have a label deal, I had to be an artist - so that's what I did.

I once worked at a record label called London Records. The company was owned by Roger Ames, one of the most successful figures in the British music industry. Roger always placed a value on loafing, on holidays, on not being in the office all the time.

I bring in the record label who distributes the music.

Back in the day, if someone at the record label didn't care or like your music, it never got to the public. It just got shelved.

I feel like some artists need a record label, and some don't.

I've dealt with a record label in the past.

Unless you've given up your business to a record label, there's no such thing as just being a musician anymore.

The Raspberries had recorded some ballads on every one of our albums, but after 'Go All The Way' was successful Capital pretty much wanted to hear nothing but 'Go All The Way.'

I'm recording another demo for another batch of record labels that we'll shop it around to.

My intention when I came into this industry was to be a musician, not necessarily a recording artist, just a musician in general. And that's the reason I went to college and got my degree, which has been great for me. It's helped me a lot with my career.

Like any self-governing group of people, the Recording Academy has made missteps over the years. Still, it has corrected course and done more to open its arms to the future than nearly any other industry group around.

There could be no filmmaking without industrywide agreement on frame rates, lenses, and audio recording equipment.

Money definitely does not equal success in recording.

We just weren't a hip band. I mean we recorded our second album in Bath at a time when everyone else was recording in New York or Los Angeles.

I think, actually, I was the first person to ever sign a simultaneous video and recording deal with a record company.

I think the recording industry is founded on that principle: to approximate the live experience, to approximate that thing that evaporates as it's happening, disappears as it's happening.