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The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it. -- Paul Simon
The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls. -- Charley Pride
Do not let any record company disturb your creative flow. You are not writing for the record company. You're writing for the public. -- Grandmaster Flash
I am not going to be dictated to by fans, certainly. I am dictated enough to by my record company to last me a million years. -- Marvin Gaye
My record company had to beg me to stop filmin' music videos in the projects. No matter what the song was about, I had 'em out there. -- Nas
People often expect me to be very serious, but it's not like my record company told me not to smile in photographs, because I was like that anyway. -- Jose Gonzalez
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
We never let go. Ever. Even with punctuation. It's frightening. I can't see anyone from any record company ever writing an email to Neil and not getting it back, with corrections. -- Chris Lowe
The record company really pissed me off when they told me to lose weight. I couldn't be bothered with looking a certain way. So I left the business. I don't regret it. -- Kim Wilde
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. -- Tori Amos
To be on this set today, I feel very blessed for the second chance and for the opportunity, my record company believing in me and everybody here just showing me so much love and support. -- Brandy Norwood
Don't give up, be positive and if you know someone who knows someone at a record company don't stop beating down their door till you get heard. Don't ever say it'll never happen or it'll never happen. -- Mary J. Blige
With technology you can now be your own record company, director, producer, etc. If you have talent, you can display it on the Internet and the world will tell you their thoughts in the matter of seconds! -- Romeo Miller
I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me - and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management. -- Blake Shelton
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. -- Billy Ray Cyrus
The thing that got me started on Twitter was just basically pressure from management and the record company saying, 'Hey, this is what all the other artists are doing. You need to be doing it also.' I didn't really have a clue what is was. -- Blake Shelton
I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me - and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management. At some point, I need to recharge. -- Blake Shelton
A record company used to be a very good thing, but they ended up soul-destroyingly trapping people in the accounting department. And you couldn't get any further, and the heads of each department were changing all the time, so you couldn't have any permanent relationship within the corporation. -- John Lydon
It's a battle between record company, between producer and between mastering engineer. Because the louder you make your record in a digital process, the more dynamics are squished out of it. Nobody knows exactly what happens, but the dynamics in the performance disappear, and everything is at the same volume. -- Geddy Lee
Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you're in big trouble if you're borrowing more than you can ever afford to pay back. Delaying the pain for future generations is suicidal. We've got to start getting the deficit down right now, not next year. -- Simon Cowell
It's hard to get people at a record company to talk about music. They don't seem to want to talk about music, it's all marketing, and that's part of a record, you gotta get it out there, people have gotta hear it, but you could do it in a way that's not repulsive. -- Henry Rollins
A lot of people thought my career was over. If you're not releasing records, then something must be wrong. Either the record company doesn't like your music, or you've been dropped. It has to something negative. It's not like you wanted to take a break, or want some balance, or smell the roses. -- Maxwell
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. -- Gloria Estefan
And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it's catchy, and you've got a little bit of help, I think that's all you need. But there hasn't been that in music. -- Joan Jett
When I did 'Frankenstein,' the record company said, 'Now you can do 'Dracula' and 'Wolf Man' and we'll call the whole thing Monster Rock!' and I said, 'No, that's not going to happen, I'm not going to do that.' I kind of enjoy defying categorization. I love music in and of itself. I love the beauty of harmony and rhythm. -- Edgar Winter
I was too shy, I think, to sing publicly. It takes a particular kind of person. And when I was young, I was not that person. In the first instance, when a record company said to me, do you want to try and make your record, my first reaction was, no, I'm not worthy - I couldn't possibly, and so on and so forth. -- Hugh Laurie
It's always push and pull with a record company. -- Mike McCready
Record company execs eat their young, I swear to God. -- Linda Barnes
I don't want a record company, but I need one, unfortunately. -- Melissa Auf der Maur
Turning music into digital was just a con, a record-company con. -- John Mellencamp
I see myself as the buffer between the band and the record company. -- Jerry Harrison
I didn't need to depend on the record company to publish my records. -- Solomon Burke
Every time I release an album my old record company releases another one. -- Bonnie Tyler
I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film. -- Carson Daly
Being sued by your own record company, that's even better than receiving a Grammy -- Neil Young
The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich. -- Maynard James Keenan
I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company. -- David Friedman
If you don't have a record deal, you've got to be a record company. -- Mary Gauthier
My dream is to do whatever I want without any interference from the record company. -- Sarah Vaughan
Who wanna be next? While you a dead superstar, the record company still cashin' checks. -- Master P
It's not like it used to be where everybody has a record company to belong to. -- Edwin Starr
I had always thought of starting my own record company. I haven't regretted the decision - yet! -- Julian Lennon
If you're part of a record company, you're a manufactured product. It doesn't mean that you're not talented. -- Kylie Minogue
Viacoms results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004. -- Sumner Redstone
Viacom's results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004. -- Sumner Redstone
I would love to show my clevage and more body parts off but my record company won't let me. -- Britney Spears
We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell. -- Barry White
I'm pushing ahead on my own - you no longer need a large record company to make you a star. -- Meshell Ndegeocello
All we had ever heard about record company people is that they were vampires and criminals...and they killed Elvis Presley. -- Bjork
It's like, it's up to the people to fall in love with the song. The record company can only do so much. -- Paul Westerberg
When you make a lot of money for a record company, they don't want you to evolve. Growing older, you naturally do. -- Alison Moyet
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Our first album was a stupid mistake by the record company. They tried to sell us as an alternative act. A big mistake! -- Lauryn Hill
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. -- Don Henley
We're probably doing better business than we thought we would do especially considering the disappointing way the record company has handled the album. -- Rick Allen
A lot of record company people, even though they're our age, want to be perceived as young hip guys, and they're hurting the business. -- John Mellencamp
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. -- Tommy Bolin
Bananarama were written off from day one. Nobody believed in us but us. We kept having hits despite the record company, despite the press. -- Siobhan Fahey
I started writing music when I was around twelve. My current record company saw a video of me performing at my school's talent show. -- Lorde
Ideas are like dreams; they will disappear unless we record them. Write a book, a blog, build a company, anything that makes the ideas real. -- Simon Sinek
I've been lucky to be able to make the records I've wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to cut certain songs. -- Lyle Lovett
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. -- Tupac Shakur
I've been lucky to be able to make the records I've wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to cut certain songs -- Lyle Lovett
I've been in fortunate position of never really having to battle with my record company to do the things I wanted to do in the studio. -- Jonny Lang
So, I'm not impressed by BP's promises and I'm not ready to take the word of a company with a track record of pursuing profit over safety. -- Patty Murray
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. -- Lou Gramm
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
As crises came up later on - "Oh, we have to compromise, and the record company wants to do this," I'd be like, "No, I don't have to." -- Neil Peart
It's a thanksgiving to God. It's something I have wanted to do for a long time, but the record company wasn't ready for it. So I did it myself. -- Aaron Neville
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. -- Enya
I have my own record company. I have to answer to God, basically. I'm not young, so I want to make the best possible work I can before I exit. -- Michael Gira
I have tons of tunes, maybe 30 tunes that I still think are great, and only because some jerk at a record company didn't think it was great, it's not out there. -- Terry Bozzio
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. -- John Sebastian
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. -- Roy Ayers
The fans like the idea we do what we want. It's not an act. Screw the record company and the beaten path. Without MTV or radio, we still have a huge underground following. -- James Hetfield
It wasn't that we were afraid of the Church or the Vatican. The record company thought people might find the title offensive. They asked me if I would change ["A Deal with God"]. -- Kate Bush
At the (record company) meeting Paul just kept mithering on about what we were going to do, so in the end I just said, 'I think you're daft. I want a divorce.' -- John Lennon
The record company doesn't know what to do with me, because I'm not a Lily Allen, but I'm not really an indie artist, either. All the best artists have been in the middle. -- Bat for Lashes
So why sign your name in blood for more? It seemed like a sensible arrangement for me. I didn't sell large numbers of records and the record company paid advances they rarely recouped. -- David Knopfler
When a record company makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When a manager makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When the artist makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. -- Robert Fripp
I never had many problems to do my music and to give it to a record company. Rarely do they try to argue with me about my music, probably because it's still too far-out. -- Klaus Schulze
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. -- Etta James

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