Quotes About Record

There are good people in radio and the record companies, but there are others who are completely in the wrong job and holding music up in the process.

My responsibility is to the artist first. There's something that artists intrinsically know about their music and their fanbase that neither the record company nor the producer really knows.

We're probably doing better business than we thought we would do especially considering the disappointing way the record company has handled the album.

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.

When I came into the music, I was forced to be a CEO. I was forced to be an entrepreneur; I was forced to... because I was looking for a deal. I didn't have this grand scheme of starting a record company and then morphing into a clothing empire.

Artists and the traditional record company model are at odds. The music business has notoriously taken from the artist. That shouldn't be the narrative.

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?

When the record company pays you an advance, it is just that - an advance. And it's at worse rates than any bank would charge you to pay them back.

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.

I'm a DJ, and I live in Williamsburg, and I run an independent record company.

I'm not into 'The Voice.' It's an affair between a television network and a record company.

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

Missing You' almost didn't get on the No Brakes' album, because the record company said, 'The album's finished. We don't need any more songs.'

When I first got my record deal, I was like, 'I just want to sing,' and I never put much thought into what really goes into a record. But as I got older, I developed a passion for writing.

When I was 19 I had a record deal.

My first record deal was an independent record deal back in 1995 or early 1996.

I've been able to experience so many things since I've had my record deal.

I had a publishing deal way before I had a record deal.

When I got my record deal at Atlantic, at the time, 'indie' wasn't a style of music: it was a kind of label. And I think, eventually, the bands that ended up on those labels began to be branded as 'indie bands,' and then it became a genre.

When I had a record deal in the '90s, that was my dream - to make an album like Barbra Streisand's Broadway album - and they laughed me out of the room. Broadway wasn't cool. But artists like Michael Buble and Josh Groban have brought the classic genre back to the forefront, so I'm trying to find my way inside that market.

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 an artist, I was executive producer on my first album, so I've always had to manage both. I couldn't get a record deal. It wasn't by choice - I couldn't get a record deal, so I had to figure it out.