Quotes About Industry

There is a common misconception that when you're a singer working for a recording company you get to pick everything you're doing. Very few people have been accorded such a luxury.

Everything has changed since I started recording in 1972. But the very things that have opened this industry, like the digital platforms to reach more people, have also killed things that were happening before in the recording studio. Now, most of the time, there are no real musicians in the studio; it's people with sequencers and things.

We're not making records for the fun of it; we're in it to make money.

The music industry is saying, This is the format, and if you'll fit into this format, you can be on radio, and if radio will play you, MTV will expose you, and MTV will expose you, we'll sell records.

Remember the Stax label and how if you liked one record, you liked all the others as well? You don't talk to a lot of people who tell you how much they love their record label. I don't care how many records they sell.

In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any more records. That was it, period.

As parents and as consumers, we have the right and the power to pressure the entertainment industry to respond to our needs. Americans, after all, should insist that every corporate giant - whether it produces chemicals or records - accept responsibility for what it produces.

You can't deny RCA's past and its history. I was also on Capitol Records, so I have that past history.

People aren't taking their time with the music no more. There's less quality in the 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.

Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.

Actually I was writing with people that didn't get records.

Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.

I'm friends with Carla Olsen and she's doing a lot of producing these days. She's getting quite a little collection of records that she's produced. She's real busy.

I think you'll do as well as most professionals. Most professionals don't beat the market. Let's not over-rate my industry. But if you have time, you can be in good mutual funds that have good records.

We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.

No one really gets rich doing this. A couple people do, Black Sabbath does. We don't sell any records anymore.

Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money.

I've been lucky to be able to make the records I've wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to cut certain songs.

Nowadays people sell millions of records that can't sing.

Everyone's talking about how no one is buying records any more, but to me it's quite logical. In the 1990s, music was so hardcore-marketed to a certain group of people that I think a lot of kids felt taken advantage of.

China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain't right.

I have been making films for 25 years now and I am not mad to invest in something from where recovery becomes an issue.

The way television is done, you're kind of set on a certain path, and then episodic directors come in every week to try to recreate that.