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I started my own record label. -- Tom Felton
I don't get involved in record label politics. -- Leona Lewis
I think that's the problem in a lot of music. We've got these record labels. -- Teena Marie
I'm recording another demo for another batch of record labels that we'll shop it around to. -- Ahmed Best
I hate record labels. They think they know everything. I want to hear them try to sing it. -- Jessica Simpson
We were 6 feet under. A lot of people gave up on us, including fans and critics and show promoters and record labels. -- Jacoby Shaddix
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. -- Christian Burns
Island Records was the first record label to... acknowledge me. After that, quickly, Republic Records, and then Atlantic Records, Sony Records and Warner Bros. It was all the labels at once. It was absolutely insane, like, knowing that this many record labels were interested in me. -- Shawn Mendes
My record producer [David Kahne] said the major record labels these days are like dinosaurs sitting around discussing the asteroid. They know it's going to hit. They don't know when, they don't know where it's coming from. But it's sort of hit already. With iTunes, and all of that. -- Paul McCartney
The means of control that record labels had vis-Ã -vis distribution no longer exist. -- Doug Walters
It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore. -- Evan Dando
Knowing record labels and knowing the kinds of things they would object to-they just object to everything that's interesting. -- Aimee Mann
I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology. -- Gavin Bryars
I'm the only girl songwriter that fights for a lot of things. I fight for songwriting fees, which record labels want you to shut up about. -- Ester Dean
The rise of the Internet has caused the demise of the record labels, and has destroyed the music business of old, but it's also created new opportunities for young artists. -- Judy Collins
When our video of 'Smooth Criminal' came out, suddenly we started getting all kinds of offers. We were getting calls from TV shows like 'Ellen DeGeneres' and from record labels. -- Luka Sulic
The record labels used to spend money on advertising, and social media has replaced that entirely - it's putting magazines out of business. It's put big companies into completely reinventing their strategies. -- Steve Aoki
If people stop being interested, it's because you haven't written a good enough album. Music will always be the most powerful thing. It doesn't matter what record labels or journalists say. It's the song. -- Tom Odell
I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.' -- Taylor Swift
In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that. -- Dave Van Ronk
If people stop being interested it's because you haven't written a good enough album. Music will always be the most powerful thing. It doesn't matter what record labels or journalists say. It's the song, -- Tom Odell
Even though were not the most punk rock band, the way weve done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves. -- Brandon Thomas
I love the road. That's always been my goal. I've said that to many record labels. I want to make records. The road is my favorite. Some people hate the road, I love the road. -- Gary Allan
Even though we're not the most punk rock band, the way we've done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves. -- Brandon Thomas
There are people who are genetically made to start record labels, and I'm not one of those people. People just have it in their blood and are good at it. Corey Rusk from Touch and Go and Ian MacKaye. These are people who have made their own labels. -- Fred Armisen
I've always had to deal with being biracial, even in music. When I came on the scene, I'd go to these record labels, and they'd say things like, "Lenny Kravitz. That's a weird name." I'm brown-skinned and I've got these dreadlocks and I've got this Jewish last name. -- Lenny Kravitz
In a sense, the music business and I haven't always been the best of bedfellows. Artists often have to fight their corner. Your music goes through these filters of record labels and media, and you're hoping you'll find someone who'll help you get your work into the world. -- Annie Lennox
When you come off 'The X Factor,' you're more likely to be a failure than a success because people almost want you to fail. There's this kind of feeling that you're separate from everyone else. You get it from artists, people in the industry, people at record labels. -- Olly Murs
The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed: the major record labels let Apple take over the digital-music business; Blockbuster refused to buy Netflix for a mere fifty million dollars; Excite turned down the chance to acquire Google for less than a million dollars. -- James Surowiecki
My experience with record labels throughout my career has generally fallen into wishing I could do things that they're not built to do, whether it be arguing about having a nicer package - because I do believe some people care about that - to trying to always bank on art-versus-the-easy-commerce route; there's always been headbutting involved. -- Trent Reznor
I'm confused that there is a lack of faith in listening to and deciding what is a great song and instead going for these formulaic, bad songs over and over again. But that's what happened when people from beverage companies bought record labels and radio stations as opposed to people who love music owning record labels. -- Patty Griffin
I had to learn the hard way. There was a blindness, without any education or will or drive. Everything I started in the beginning from skate shops to record labels to a million and one side hustles that I went in without knowing how I was going to do it, a lot of those ventures just went out of business. -- Rob Dyrdek
There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between record labels, publishing companies and artists [about the compensation they get from streaming services] Spotify is returning a HUGE amount of money [to the record labels]. If we continue growing at our current rate in terms of subscriptions and downloads, we'll overtake iTunes in terms of contributions to the recorded music business in under two years. -- Sean Parker
It was a lot easier to write songs before I had a record deal, because the record labels and the industry doesn't mean to put pressure on you, but they do. They don't realize that they are, but you end up having a pressure there that you feel. At times I feel myself wanting to say, 'Just let me do what I do.' -- Ashton Shepherd
A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it. -- Taylor Swift
I made this record without a record label. -- Jules Shear
I just have so much love for my record label. -- Katy Perry
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
We've sold over 100,000 records so far, and we're an independent label. -- Isaac Hanson
I've been DJing since before I could read the labels on the records. -- Mayer Hawthorne
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
If you don't get substantially what you want, be ready to walk. And don't look back. -- Norman Granz
I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them. -- Gary Wright
All I want to do is give the world my heart... Record label tryina make me compromise my art. -- Erykah Badu
I left my record label, Polydor, by mutual agreement, but I'm going to carry on with my singing career. -- Alex Parks
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
What made me want to become a recording artist; I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to record with them. That label was Def Jam Records. -- Chuck D
The majors, they have to control the distribution, the record outlets, the radio and, in some cases, even the venues. And downloading and pirating have also put pressure on the majors. -- Roy Ayers
I've started a little independent record label called 'Six String Productions' and recorded a couple of tunes, and I hope to do some more with some future artists next year. It's a real passion project of mine. -- Tom Felton
Commercial success still hasn't come to an artist that isn't signed to a record label. There are very few artists that can succeed without the help of a record label. The role of the record label is still required, it's still necessary. -- Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
I heard the Bloc Party record Japan before it came out in the UK as they are on the V2 record label. I think it has a great vibe and has great songs. I also think the Kings of Leon are right up my street. -- Kelly Jones
So you have to just be really careful and make sure that when a deal comes along, that it's like the right deal for you... not necessarily the most money, because you have to pay the record label that back in like record sales and stuff. -- Adam Rich
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 didn't have to fit into a mold. You make the mold. People can smell a rat. If you're doing thing for marketing and for a record label, you're going to set yourself up to be called a phony. As long as it's true to you, you do it. -- Anthony Evans
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
I was turned down by every record label in L.A. Perseverance is three quarters of the game. Talent's only a quarter. Being able to withstand the word 'no' over and over can build you a pretty tough skin. I knew if I just kept at it, at the very least I'd get better at my craft. -- Sheryl Crow
Every time I meet the CEO of a record label I tell them how they did it in the seventies because they want to know. I tell them, "Sign a hundred people! Throw it against the wall and see which ones stick!" And they frown and say, "Oh, we can't do that!" and they start mumbling about demographics and this and that. -- Tony Visconti
We have signed with Artemis Records. Originally they were our distributor for 'Group Therapy'. My former manager (Chip Quigley) started a record label (Recon Records) and had Artemis Records as their distributor. Unfortunately, the way the label was run meant that it didn't turn out the way that we thought it was going to be. We simply got into something that was different to what we initially thought -- Brian Ebejer
The big labels have less of a stranglehold on artists and how they record and where they go. -- Kim Wilde
Record labels have enjoyed a 100-year monopoly of selling plastic and now they're up against a different format. -- Ian MacKaye
We aren't as concerned about the live aspect as other labels. The best live bands are the easiest to record. -- Greg Ginn
It's what's on the record not what labels on it. You know, that's like getting a box of cornflakes and eating the cardboard. -- Elvis Costello
When I first tried to get a record deal for my original music, labels didn't understand what these instruments were meant to be doing -- Suzanne Ciani

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