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There are no record companies in Waikiki. -- Bruno Mars
Those record companies don't know what's happening at all. -- Ritchie Blackmore
One startup I dream of funding is the one that kills the record companies. -- Paul Graham
I used to run record companies, and I went to the advertising business at 29 years old. -- Steve Stoute
Record companies are not necessarily interested in you realizing your artistic dream. The bottom line is that they got to sell records. -- Mos Def
There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission. -- Prince
The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part. -- David Byrne
A lot of very popular mainstream artists are products of record companies and marketing companies, and any time anyone can stand outside of that, that's interesting. -- Marco Brambilla
I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind. -- Sarah McLachlan
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. -- Adam Ant
Today's consumer is less interested in possessing things and more in experiencing them. That's something the music industry needs to get its head around. Do we even need record companies any more? -- Jimmy Chamberlin
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. -- Dimebag Darrell
It's all false pressure; you put the heat on yourself, you get it from the networks and record companies and movie studios. You put more pressure on yourself to make everything that much harder. -- John Belushi
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. -- Ornette Coleman
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. -- George Clinton
My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music. -- Helen Reddy
The music business has changed incredibly. There used to be 50 record companies. Now there's only three, and it's just getting smaller and smaller. But then again, you have the Internet, so anybody who has music can get it out there. -- Joey McIntyre
I was always told that I was too strange or that I was too cheesy by different groups of people, like the record companies said I was way too weird and the indie people wouldn't even let me in their band. -- Mika
I don't relate to what's left of the music business. There doesn't seem to be any point to it anymore. The business that I grew up in and loved, we made records a different way - there were record companies, there were stores where you could buy albums. -- Don McLean
You could have a zillion Facebook followers. Those people don't buy records. It's about a hundred to one...Record companies, they don't have any money, so they see social media as the free marketing... So... 'Billy, light yourself on fire and stand upside down, and that'll market the record.' -- Billy Corgan
They say the music you listen to in your formative years stays with you and leaves an impression for the rest of your life. For me, the things that I fell in love with happened in the '70s, when artists were nurtured by record companies and it wasn't about singles. -- Nikki Sixx
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.' -- Fantasia Barrino
You have record companies that sign acts that they think are great, and then they never do anything. Acts that they don't think are really going to do much end up having a career. I don't think anyone really knows what it is that drives somebody to get on their computer and want to download a song. -- Jason Aldean
Leaving the record companies tweaked something inside me and I realised I don't have to deal with labels to make something happen. If I want to meet someone, I don't have to go through the label - I'll just go to them. I took my life in my hands and social media has just helped me do that more. -- Imogen Heap
If you have good songs and a real desire to make music, the next thing to do, instead of approach record companies, is to get yourself a really good manager because then it allows you to focus on your profession of being a musician. Then they can focus on the darker art of the record label and the music industry. -- James Blunt
I'm introverted, and I pay attention to my muse... Record companies used to go mad and say 'We don't know the deal with you. You have no continuity at all. You give us 'Addicted to Love,' and you're a rock n' roll star, then you give us 'She Makes My Day,' and what's that?' But that was a hit, too. It either gets across or it doesn't. -- Robert Palmer
I think record companies are criminals. -- Jon Bon Jovi
Money don't rule me, record companies don't rule me. -- Link Wray
I understand quarterly billing, how the record companies run. -- Nikki Sixx
Records used to be documents, but now record companies want product. -- Stan Getz
Record companies, I found out, can put out compilations without your permission. -- Pink
The intentions of record companies are not good, from the musician's perspective. -- Melissa Auf der Maur
I don't think that old-fashioned idea of record companies exists any more. -- Sophie Ellis Bextor
I don't think that old-fashioned idea of record companies exists any more. -- Sophie Ellis Bextor
Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live. -- Adam Ant
The record companies really do conspire against the artists. Especially the black artists -- Michael Jackson
The only thing the record companies put out now is 'Best of,' -- Elton John
Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart. -- Leif Garrett
The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio. -- Ken Auletta
You're starting to see new record companies and business models taking shape, but it takes time. -- Simon Le Bon
Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies. -- Gary Wright
The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop. -- John Lydon
Obviously record companies tend to be following what the scene is rather than making the scene. -- David Gilmour
In general though, if you look at the track record of pivots, they don't become big companies. -- Sam Altman
I challenge record companies to show me evidence of a single penny they've lost due to Napster. -- Dave Rowntree
There aren't enough people who are scaring the kind of people who work at these record companies. -- Greg Ginn
The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups. -- Norman Granz
Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame. -- Marian McPartland
If you get rid of a lot of the poseurs by destroying record companies, maybe it's a good trade-off. -- Mark Mothersbaugh
You have to be talented and you have to be lucky. Record companies are not signing classic rock groups anymore. -- Leslie West
The music pot is broad. It's just unfortunate that the record companies cry the blues as frequently as they do. -- Vance Gilbert
This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome. -- Robert Wyatt
I think all record companies should be run by a musician. Just as you wouldn't trust your health to an electrician. -- Paul Bley
First of all, you needed a budget to do the video. The record companies would pick and choose who got videos. -- Nina Blackwood
We can't allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers... We must do what we can to fix this problem. -- Stephanie Herseth Sandlin
We can't allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers... We must do what we can to fix this problem. -- Stephanie Herseth Sandlin
I like Rick Ross as a person. I like Jay-Z and Kanye West as people. But I hate the companies that they record for. -- Chuck D
Rock 'n' roll started to make so much money and generated so much income for the record companies that suddenly it was no longer evil. -- John Landis
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. -- Lester Bowie
[After college] I was going to study at the Sorbon and become a diplomat. Being a diplomat comes in handy when you are dealing with record companies. -- Gloria Estefan
You can always pound out demos and send them to record companies, but most of the successful bands I've seen are the ones that can sustain themselves. -- Joe Perry
We've managed to have a long career that is still quite vibrant, yet we've never had to kow-tow to record companies who said we weren't commercial enough. -- Alex Lifeson
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. -- David Crosby
Love Tattoo' I recorded without a record company. I'd gotten turned down by the record companies - they said they didn't get me, which is fine, I suppose. -- Imelda May
Why don't these companies making big profits just pay people better than $14 an hour? It's kind of simple. When you're making record profits, why not? I don't get it. -- Mika Brzezinski
What record companies do these days is drain the blood dry of an album, take six singles off it, and harm the longevity of artists' careers by doing it. -- Elton John
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. -- Graham Parker
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. -- Levon Helm
It's quite a mistake to think that music fans don't work on major record companies. Sometimes, you know, you do find some good people on corporates, among all the infidels. -- James Dean Bradfield
Albums aren't even selling anymore and there's a reason for that. Record companies are just signing single and ring tone deals and it doesn't seem like they're focusing on albums. -- Rahki
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!'. -- Enrique Iglesias
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. -- Juice Newton
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. -- Ornette Coleman
Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business. -- Ornette Coleman
I applied for three jobs in record companies and was offered all of them. I took the most glamorous-sounding job in the promotions department and it began my love affair with the music industry. -- Nicki Chapman
There are a lot of people, especially the younger generation who don't feel that they need to support the artists by buying their music because they grew up learning that record companies are evil. -- Bob Mould
At the beginning, at my shows, there were a lot of press and people from record companies. Now there are people who are there to just listen to the music and are genuine fans. -- Seinabo Sey
We had an EP out and all of a sudden we find record companies are interested in us, and we're thinking, 'Oh, that's really nice, but we don't think we're ready for it.' -- Debbi Peterson
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. -- Peter Gabriel
Everybody can perform, there are so many outlets. Musicians are no longer limited. In the past, the record companies made most of the money. I for one am not sorry to see them fade away. -- Jake Holmes
I thought I'd be wasting my time to go to commercial record companies and make demos for them, because don't forget, I was doing what I was doing and nobody understood what I was doing. -- John Fahey

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