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I started my own record label. -- Tom Felton
I just have so much love for my record label. -- Katy Perry
I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music. -- Taylor Swift
You can now be a master of your own destiny. I'm not sure why you would sign up with a record label. -- Sean Parker
I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day. -- Bruce Springsteen
I hate how I've had the mantle set on my shoulders as being against the record label. We've had some issues, but that is the nature of business. -- Sheryl Crow
At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19... and it was devastating. -- Katy Perry
I think I'm a living embodiment of, 'Don't try to push me around or squash me,' whether its how I talk to a record label or in my relationships. -- Bonnie Raitt
I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry,' -- Jewel
If I was rich enough, I would love to launch my own record label. I would love to try and give all my musically talented friends a start in the industry. -- Cara Delevingne
My allegiance was always to the act. I wanted them to be happy. I wasn't owned by a magazine or a record label. And I was a very naughty boy to boot! -- Mick Rock
Generally, when a record label suggests album ideas for you, you smile politely, and then proceed to shoot it down, because it's never what you as an artist feel is right for you. -- John Scofield
With the Beatles, we'd been very spoiled because we had George Martin who worked for the record label we were going to be signed to. That was very fortunate, because we grew together. -- Paul McCartney
I should be the one to say what I do. It's just not done that way anymore in Nashville, and I can't do it the other way. That's how our record label came about. -- Charlie Daniels
Well, we were originally called Huey Lewis and the American Express. But on the eve of the release of our first record, our record label, Chrysalis Records was afraid that we'd be sued by American Express. -- Huey Lewis
I learned how to take other people's mechanisms of promoting their stuff through me as opposed to promoting my own stuff, as far as getting Snoop DeVilles, SnoopDeGrills, Snoop Doggy Dogg biscuits, Snoop Dogg record label, Snoop Dogg bubble gum, Snoop Youth Football League. -- Snoop Dogg
Remember the Stax label and how if you liked one record, you liked all the others as well? You don't talk to a lot of people who tell you how much they love their record label. I don't care how many records they sell. -- Darius Rucker
I've had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, 'Your music sucks, you don't know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don't know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us.' -- Bruno Mars
I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again. -- Malcolm Wilson
I have hundreds and hundreds of songs waiting to get on albums, but I don't know about the three-month radio tours and if I'll be interested in that. I haven't figured it out, but I will definitely be doing music, whether it is independent or with a major record label. -- Jewel
I was signed to a record label when I was younger. I was in a group, and I just wasn't - personally, I wasn't ready to get out there. I don't know. It was a pop group. Not like the Spice Girls, but when you don't have any control over anything, it's disheartening. -- Tika Sumpter
I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I've started a record label, so I get to nurture new talent and talk about music, which is a passion of mine. I've written another book. And I get to come to work and do the TV show, which is always really fun. -- Ellen DeGeneres
If you ever want to know why I'm not on a record label, look at 'The X Factor!' Honestly, of all the people that strive to break barriers in music and do good things and write great lyrics, not one of them would ever pass the first round on any of these competitions. -- John Lydon
However, the radio and national media depend much more on the hype from a good record label, and from a ' buzz ' about a band, then from just one or two good shows. There are a lot of artists that have a ton of good press going for them, and still do not make it big in the US. -- Pat Garrett
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
When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contract and I had to go to Paris to do it. So I went there and that's how I really got into the music business. But I didn't like what I was doing when I got there, so I left, and I never did a record there. -- Madonna Ciccone
I made this record without a record label. -- Jules Shear
I don't get involved in record label politics. -- Leona Lewis
I certainly don't want to be a record label guy. -- Guy Picciotto
After we wrote The Wreckoning, our record label did listen. -- Taryn Manning
I'm going to keep proving people wrong, whether it's my record label, other artists. -- Donnis
We have meetings with our record label to tell them how to market us. -- Adam Jones
Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign. -- Robyn Hitchcock
I don't think the label cares about an album... People just want their number-one record. -- Peter Tosh
I miss how a record label can help spread the word that you have something out. -- Trent Reznor
I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them. -- Gary Wright
My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time. -- Rosanne Cash
I left my record label, Polydor, by mutual agreement, but I'm going to carry on with my singing career. -- Alex Parks
All I want to do is give the world my heart... Record label tryina make me compromise my art. -- Erykah Badu
You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the system. -- Ice T
Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well. -- Talib Kweli
I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it. -- Shirley Manson
I don't have any pressure on myself. I don't have a big record label backing me. I'm doing it all myself. -- Melanie Brown
I can't wait until the record label feels like it's time for my album to come out, and then just disappear. -- Donnis
There's no school you can go to where you can study how to run a record label. Every day was a learning experience. -- Bruce Pavitt
There is such a thing as good interference from your record label. I don't think I get enough interference from my record label. -- Elton John
I'm from Israel, so America has no limits. I started a record label, and then I started managing other artists, like Liza Minelli. -- Gene Simmons
There's a pianist out of Boston who made a beautiful record for the Fresh Sound label called 'Sketch Book'; his name is Vardan Ovsepian -- Brad Mehldau
The fact of the matter is, if you're not putting out stuff that people are feeling, then your record label doesn't mean a goddamn thing. -- El-P
I'd done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never thought I'd have a record label. -- Norah Jones
Heath Ledger was supposed to put our album on what would have been a new record label. I still feel a little dead after losing him. -- Alex Ebert
We have to wake up early and make songs everyday. I run my record label. You work at hours where your body isn't designed to work. But it's fun. -- A-Trak
My style when I was 17 was very low-key with jeans, T-shirts, and Converse. I was signed to a major record label by then, so I had stylists helping me. -- Michelle Branch
When you become a commodity to a record label because you're making them millions of dollars, you can take all of your artistic integrity and throw it out the window. -- Mark McGrath
My record label always says you shouldn't talk about money because it makes people extremely uncomfortable. Refugees can't talk about money. Rappers can talk about money; refugees can't talk about money. -- M.I.A.
I want to invest and have my own record label and artists. I want to have a business where my kids, kids, kids will still have something going on long after I'm gone. -- Chingy
Kaputt was just a record that did really well for us, and therefore our record label and our booking agent said that we should go out and take our message to the world. -- Dan Bejar
The opportunity to record the song came when Phil Collins' record label, Atlantic, was doing a tribute album to him and they asked all these different artists to do renditions of his songs. -- Deborah Cox
If a record label will sign you in order for you to be moulded into something that can make more money for them, then you should get out of there if you're that artist. -- Matt Corby
On everything I do I'm always taking someone's money, whether it's a movie studio or a record label. Somebody's paying for it, and I'm always respectful of that. But I'm never going to compromise. -- Spike Jonze
I think the people at my record label know I'm a Christian and again, I've been really blessed that I've never had to get into a head-butt war over moral standards or anything like that. -- Jonny Lang

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