“Oh, you know record companies. . . at the end of the day, it's business. If you analyse it, you're just a piece of meat. The minute you go bad, it's: 'Next!'.” IfsKnowsEndsNextCompanyRecordsPiecesMinutesMeatThe End Of The DayRecord Companies Author:Enrique Iglesias
“Everybody raps. We rap to make money. We do business. Ain't no other record company out there that sold as many records as we did.” CompanyRecordsRapMaking MoneyRecord Companies Author:Tupac Shakur
“Our first album was a stupid mistake by the record company. They tried to sell us as an alternative act. A big mistake!” FirstsBigsMistakeCompanyRecordsStupidSellsAlbumsAlternativesRecord CompaniesBig MistakeStupid Mistake Author:Lauryn Hill
“I still have every record company sending every new, hot track to me, to do music videos, so I'm chained by the foot to pop culture. I still know what kids dress like and speak like, and I still hang out with them. It's just the nature of my day job. I am a freak of nature that has to understand them.” KnowsStillsKidsJobsCultureSpeakCompanyRecordsFeetHotDressesTrackPopsVideoHanging OutFreakPop CultureRecord CompaniesChainedDay Jobs Author:Joseph M. Kahn
“I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it - like, they say "rock". Because the white singers can't sound like James Brown, they call him "soul". They've been doing that for years. That's the prejudice crap.” YearsSoulKidsUsedEnjoySoundWhiteCompanyRecordsRocksListeningBandPrejudiceRadioSingersLabelsBrownCrapRecord Companies Author:Miles Davis
“I saw the Ramones, early on at a country-rock palace in Denver. They were opening for some record-company band, so the local music establishment, and I emphasize the word "establishment," was there in force, and the handful of us who knew the Ramones were up in front. And half the fun was, you know, not only were the Ramones the most powerful band I had ever seen at that point, but they made it look so simple - that anyone could do it, hell, even I could do it. This is what I should be doing.” KnowsShouldLooksMadeCountryFunForceSimplePowerfulHalfCompanyHellRecordsSawsRocksFrontsBandLocalsOpeningMade ItMost PowerfulEstablishmentHandfulPalacesRecord CompaniesDenverRamones Author:Jello Biafra
“I can do whatever I want, I can have my band, I can use different people, I can use studio players, it's complete, total freedom for me. If I want to make a video, now that I own my own record company, if the video has an American flame being engulfed by a huge puddle of oil, I can do that, I can say that if I want to.” PeopleIfsWantI CanDifferentUseCan DoMy OwnCompanyRecordsPlayerHugeBandStudiosOilVideoFlamesDifferent PeoplesRecord CompaniesPuddles Author:Richard Patrick
“I heard a quote once in a documentary about a band that said you're better off owning everything 100 percent and selling 20,000 copies of an album than signing with a record company and selling a million copies. There has never been a truer statement about show business than that.” SaidShowsCompanyMillionsRecordsHeardBandPercentAlbumsStatementsSellingCopiesDocumentariesBetter OffShow BusinessSigningRecord Companies Author:Bill Burr
“I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind.” MindSaidWantedCompanyRecordsBest ThingsThings To DoThey SaidRecord CompaniesLush Author:Etta James
“I want the new band to work together for a while, and when we're ready we'll invite every major record company to see us.” WantTogetherCompanyRecordsReadyBandMajorsWorking TogetherInvitesRecord Companies Author:Tommy Bolin
“These record companies are going to be going out of business pretty soon, because people are just going to be downloading what they want to hear.” PeopleWantCompanyRecordsGoing OutRecord Companies Author:Lester Bowie
“Concerning iTunes, the deals have mainly been done with the record companies. But the artists, with some exceptions, haven't been very well-represented. This is partly because the record companies have largely been copyright owners.” WellsDoneArtistDealsCompanyRecordsHavensExceptionOwnersCopyrightRecord CompaniesItunes Author:Peter Gabriel
“But I did mine through a production company. All the music I did, I gave to the production company. Then the production company would give the record company the album. I used to do all my albums like that. It was fantastic. But now, understand, I have never planned to do anything with these other tapes. The one that are released, like the Virgin Ubiquity you have there, I wasn't going to do anything with that music. One day, I was talking to this guy that owns BBE over in England, and I said I've got some tapes and stuff that you might be interested in, and he went berserk.” GivingSaidMightUsedGuyStuffCompanyTalkingRecordsMinesOne DayEnglandAlbumsProductionsFantasticTapeVirginsThis GuyRecord CompaniesBerserkUbiquity Author:Roy Ayers
“When I do an album I try to find a producer that's excited about something that they want me to sing, and I check with the record company to find out what they think they can sell - which is their No. 1 priority.” ThinkingWantTryingCompanyRecordsSellsAlbumsExcitedPrioritiesChecksProducersWant MeRecord Companies Author:Johnny Mathis
“About 1990 there was a huge shakeup in the music industry and the 6 major record companies fired all the music people and hired business graduates to take over the spots. So the music became not as important. What really became important was the bottom line, how much money you could make.” PeopleImportantLinesCompanyRecordsHugeIndustryMajorsMusic IsBottomSpotsGraduatesBottom LineMusic IndustryRecord Companies Author:Geoff Tate
“I gave away the money advanced from my record company on my first album, I'm the type of person who likes to give. I gave to my sister. She has four little babies and bought an old house and it needed repairs.” GivingFirstsLittlesPersonsHouseCompanyRecordsFourBabyTypeNeededAlbumsLikesMy SisterRecord CompaniesOld Houses Author:Jo Dee Messina
“I certainly never doubted the ability for the guys to get together and make good music, but there was so much legal business with the record company that it ended up being like five albatrosses around our neck.” TogetherGuyAbilityCompanyRecordsFiveNecksDoubtedGet TogetherRecord CompaniesAlbatross Author:John Bush
“Some record labels want to package you in a certain way and we didn't want that. Once the record company saw we had some substance and were not a one hit wonder. They got 100% behind us.” WayWantCertainBehindsCompanyWonderRecordsSawsLabelsSubstancePackagesRecord CompaniesRecord Labels Author:Christian Burns
“That was an idea of the record company, and also that was my first album after MCA and we wanted to come back with a strong album that would be noticed. If we put the vocals by very talented people and very meaningful songs, then the vocals would be a platform so that I could be noticed again. All of the MCA albums were just loaded with problems -- you know, the right musicians, the engineers. The record company would say 'You have to make music for black radio, you can't do what you have been doing with The Crusaders.' Everybody was telling me that was over, finished, done.” PeopleIfsKnowsFirstsHas BeensIdeasDoneProblemWould BeWantedSongStrongBlackCompanyRecordsMusicianRadioAlbumsFinishedMeaningfulPlatformsEngineersVocalLoadedRecord CompaniesVery MeanVery MeaningfulMeaningful Song Author:Joe Sample
“They wanted to 'radiofy' what I was doing. I was also in a position where I was compromised. I was much younger and maybe it is because I am Irish but there was a guilt factor when the record company pays you a lot of money, you feel obliged.” FeelsWantedPayCompanyRecordsPositionGuiltFactorsLots Of MoneyObligedRecord Companies Author:Damien Rice