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“I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company.”

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Author:Don Henley

“The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I'm from. Well, I can't write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation.”

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Author:Billy Ray Cyrus

“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.”

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Author:Lou Gramm

“I produce the records. I don't hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record company and then tries to bend me to their will - for commercial purposes.”

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Author:Tori Amos

“And looking at today's music scene, I think it's cool that there are a lot of consumers and fans not limited by what radio and the record companies tell them to buy.”

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Author:Juice Newton

“Between the record companies being the way they are and the fact that people can just download one song instead of buying a whole album, it's hard to make a good living nowadays.”

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Author:Dimebag Darrell

“I think all record companies should be run by a musician. Just as you wouldn't trust your health to an electrician.”

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Author:Paul Bley

“...I got a call from a record company offering me a contract, I did not want to take it because the Lord had pointed me in the direction of spiritual activity...And then it was disclosed to me that I could do both spiritual and musical work. So for five years I executed that contract, and when it was finished, after I made the album Transfiguration, I didn't make another album until twenty-six years later. This new album, Translinear Light, came out of the pleading and constant appealing from my son Ravi Coltrane: 'Ma, please make a CD.' So I eventually agreed.”

“My dream is to do whatever I want without any interference from the record company.”

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Author:Sarah Vaughan

“I don't want a record company, but I need one, unfortunately.”

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Author:Melissa Auf der Maur

“The intentions of record companies are not good, from the musician's perspective.”

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Author:Melissa Auf der Maur

“Record companies are not necessarily interested in you realizing your artistic dream. The bottom line is that they got to sell records.”

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Author:Mos Def

“Like, when we did Parliament and Funkadelic and Bootsy, it was actually one thing. But there were so many people that you could split them up into different groups. And then, when we went out on tour and they [the record companies] would see us all up there together - we had five, six guitars playing at one time, not including the bass! -, they said: "Wait a minute, that's just one whole group, selling different names!" But it wasn't - we had enough people in the group that each member would have a section to be another group. So now we're finally starting to get them to understand that.”

“What pisses me off is when I've got seven or eight record company fat pig men sitting there telling me what to wear.”

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Author:Sinead O'Connor

“Records used to be documents, but now record companies want product.”

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Author:Stan Getz

“First of all, you needed a budget to do the video. The record companies would pick and choose who got videos.”

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Author:Nina Blackwood

“Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame.”

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Author:Marian McPartland

“I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen.”

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Author:John Sebastian

“I see myself as the buffer between the band and the record company.”

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Author:Jerry Harrison

“Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.”

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Author:Gary Wright

“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.”

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Author:Roy Ayers

“The only thing the record companies put out now is 'Best of,'”

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Author:Elton John

“PW spent time with Sigel in a New York recording studio shortly before he went away on his federal gun possession charge. He paged through a book of promotional photos of himself, one of which was shot shortly after 911. It featured him holding a copy of the Bible upright in one palm while the Koran rose from the other the Twin Towers. Some of the record company people, they wouldn't let me put this out, ... They said it would be too controversial. But this picture is saying 'Look, they can stand together. Don't have to be no fight.'”

“All we had ever heard about record company people is that they were vampires and criminals...and they killed Elvis Presley.”

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Author:Bjork

“If you don't have a record deal, you've got to be a record company.”

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Author:Mary Gauthier

“Money don't rule me, record companies don't rule me.”

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Author:Link Wray

“A lot of people that buy vinyl today don’t realise that they’re listening to CD masters on vinyl and that’s because the record companies have figured out that people want vinyl, And they're only making CD masters in digital, so all the new products that come out on vinyl are actually CDs on vinyl, which is really nothing but a fashion statement.”

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Author:Neil Young

“The people who run record companies now wouldn't know a song if it flew up their nose and died. They haven't a clue, and they don't care. You tell them that, and they go, Yeah? So, your point is?”

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Author:David Crosby

“Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking a trend to death is not contributing to culture and is ultimately not profitable.”

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Author:Tony Visconti

“It's like, it's up to the people to fall in love with the song. The record company can only do so much.”

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Author:Paul Westerberg

“Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music. So given those things yes, I'm introducing some new music that people haven't really heard me do in quite this fashion.”

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Author:Al Jarreau

“I told the record company I didn't feel the need to be at red-carpet events. I wanted a career. But I wanted to keep myself intact as a person.”

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Author:Enya

“I've been wanting to sing for a long time. I've been singing all my life, and I've tried different record companies, but it seemed like - it was such a struggle and so hard to get out there. So, I said, 'I'm gonna go on American Idol and see how far it takes me.'”

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Author:Fantasia Barrino

“The Internet has been a blessing and a curse. The curse we know: A lot of people appropriating your intellectual property without paying for it. But I think it's important to realize the blessing of the Internet, which is that everybody has a voice and you can break through, even without a record company.”

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Author:Gloria Estefan

“Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live.”

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Author:Adam Ant

“People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.”

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Author:Adam Ant

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

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Author:Siobhan Fahey

“Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big.”

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Author:David Crosby

“I don't hear record companies coming up with any good ideas or suggestions. Historically, if it ain't their idea, it ain't no good, so you got that to contend with.”

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Author:Levon Helm

“I challenge record companies to show me evidence of a single penny they've lost due to Napster.”

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Author:Dave Rowntree

“I was literally told for 'The Show Goes On' that I shouldn't rap too deep. I shouldn't be too lyrical. It just needs to be something easy on the eyes. Like a record company telling Picasso that we don't need these abstract interpretations of life, where people have to sit down and look at it and break it down.”

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Author:Lupe Fiasco

“My whole team, it wasn't about putting the album out, it was about getting off the record company and going independent or going to another label. To the point we were like, 'Listen, just take 'Lasers.' You can have whatever percentage off the next ten records I do for the rest of my life. I just do not want to be here anymore.'”

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Author:Lupe Fiasco

“Mostly I've never let record companies become involved with my music, which was a very smart thing that my first manager Dave Robinson did, to keep them out of it.”

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Author:Graham Parker

“I don't know what they're thinking about. Just because someone says, 'I like what you do' or something: They might like it today and tomorrow they might not. I've had that experience with record companies.”

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Author:Ornette Coleman

“I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fired, and I'd be left with the record company. And then - because they got fired - the record company wouldn't do anything for me.”

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Author:Ornette Coleman

“Most of my relationships have been like that - with record companies. I've never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. I've always had a personal relationship with someone in the company.”

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Author:Ornette Coleman

“If you come from Africa with your economic poverty and your cultural riches, and you meet someone like Peter Gabriel or a person from a big record company, and they tell you that what you are doing is marvelous, that makes you feel powerful.”

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Author:Youssou N'Dour

“Western record companies haven't always dealt with African musicians in the best way. Giving them a lot of money and telling them they're going to be bigger than Phil Collins is the wrong way to do it!”

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Author:Youssou N'Dour

“I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I'd have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do.”

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Author:Solomon Burke

“Record companies would rather you stay dumb, not even think of it as a business, so they can either rip you off or get you out of the way in five years to make way for the new groups.”

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Author:George Clinton

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