“I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing.” ArtistPayRecordsPaidContractsUnusualRoyalty Author:Jo Stafford
“Nashville has always felt perfect. I don't think Third Man Records could exist in any other town that I know of in America. Anything smaller or larger than the size of Nashville, and also the music - the attention that's paid to music in that town is sort of the right kind. It's not too hipster and it's not too fake; it's something in the middle, which is really good ground for a place like Third Man Records, that aims to be genre-less. It's great to be able to have that kind of access.” ThinkingKnowsMenKindAbleAmericaFeltPerfectAttentionRecordsMiddleThirdsPaidTownsAimSizeAccessGenreFakeHipsterNashville Author:Jack White
“When I’m Chad from Nickelback, then I have to wear one hat and I have to wear various others when I’m Chad Kroeger who is co-owner of 604 Records or someone who’s working on an independent project. At that point I want to know where the record is getting licensed, as well as absolutely every aspect of how we’re going to deliver a song to the public and how we’ll all get paid for doing so.” KnowsWantWellsSongRecordsProjectsAspectPaidIndependentVariousHatsOwnersChadNickelback Author:Chad Kroeger
“The street's alive as secret debts are paid, Contacts made, they vanished unseen. Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades Hustling for the record machine. The hungry and the hunted explode into rock'n'roll bands That face off against each other out in the street, down in Jungleland.” MadeKidsFacesSecretRecordsAliveStreetsRocksBandMachinesPaidGuitarDebtHungryContactRock N RollFlashUnseenBladesHustleHunted Author:Bruce Springsteen
“You gotta' sell a million records before you talk about getting paid at a major [label].” MillionsRecordsMajorsPaidSellsLabels Author:Betty Wright
“When new artists come out and they're not being cosigned or some company doesn't have a stake in it, or someone's not getting paid under the table to produce the whole record or bring it to video, the artist really suffers.” WholeArtistSufferingCompanyRecordsProducePaidTablesVideoStakesNew Artists Author:Pharoahe Monch
“I've done everything. I've sung, done records, plays... It just so happened my first professional job was as a dancer. I've done the whole shebang, darling. But dancing was my first professional engagement in 1974. I got paid for it, so that was it, my vocation. But my parents weren't keen. They wanted me to be an accountant in Italy. Or a lawyer. They were furious. I had to run away. I had to leave the country.” FirstsCountryDonePlayWholeRunningWantedJobsParentRecordsHappenedPaidDancingLawyerDancerEngagementRunning AwayVocationDarlingFuriousAccountants Author:Bruno Tonioli
“Berkshire's whole record has been achieved without paying one ounce of attention to the efficient market theory in its hard form. And not one ounce of attention to the descendants of that idea, which came out of academic economics and went into corporate finance and morphed into such obscenities as the capital asset pricing model, which we also paid no attention to. I think you'd have to believe in the tooth fairy to believe that you could easily outperform the market by seven-percentage points per annum just by investing in high volatility stocks.” ThinkingBelieveHas BeensIdeasHardWholeFormAttentionRecordsTheoryModelsEconomicsPaidSevenInvestingTeethFinanceCorporateFairyAssetsAcademicEfficientPercentagesDescendantsObscenityPricingVolatilityTooth FairyEfficient Markets Author:Charlie Munger
“To me, a critic is someone who gets paid for their opinion, and they're entitled to that opinion but I don't really put a lot of stock into their opinion. I'm going to cut the kind of records and the kind of songs that I like, and the kind of things that I enjoy doing. If critics dig it, that's fine, if they don't, that's fine.” IfsKindSongEnjoyOpinionRecordsCuttingFinePaidCriticsEntitled Author:Jason Aldean
“The first time I actually heard any of the Beatles' music it was in a car. I think it was the, the B side of their first record. I think it was "I Want to ... I Want to Hold Your Hand". And it, it really sounded different to me. And it sounded a bit like trouble, like this is something new 'cause I very rarely paid any attention to what anyone else was doing.” ThinkingWantFirstsDifferentHandsCausesBitsSidesAttentionRecordsTroubleHeardCarFirst TimePaidSomething New Author:Jeff Barry
“As a writer, I never paid much attention to the length of titles. I've just wanted them to communicate the emotional overtones of the content of a record or song that they are describing” WantedSongAttentionRecordsEmotionalPaidCommunicateTitlesLengthDescribing Author:Jacob Bannon
“I think my science career had an arc to it that peaked in, let's say 2003/2004. I was in hog heaven, working in a corporation, getting paid pretty good money and doing really exciting research. And we had just done the Cool To Be You record, and I said well, we'll put this record out, but I can't tour it because I just want to do science. That's my gig, my future.” ThinkingWantWellsSaidI CanDoneHeavenCareersRecordsResearchExcitingPaidCorporationsBe YouGigsMy FutureArcsHogGood Money Author:Milo Aukerman
“I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.” TryingFirstsLittlesBitsSoundMillionsRecordsLittle BitPaidSellsAlbumsPretentious Author:Justin Timberlake
“This is business: they don't care about your lyrics; The better you sell, the better future for their children. Controversy sells, so they support conflict, Makes more progress, means more profit. An artist gets killed, they say they're 'so sorry,' Meanwhile, they tell you the date of his next project. What a life...death made them more profit: Record companies get paid for your drama.” MeanChildrenMadeCareArtistNextCompanySupportRecordsProgressDramaConflictProjectsPaidSellsSorryProfitHip HopDon't CareRapControversyLife DeathRecord CompaniesBetter Future Author:Cormega