I took my life in my hands and social media has just helped me do that more. — Imogen Heap Copy Share Image
'Love Tattoo' I recorded without a record company. I'd gotten turned down by the record companies - they said they didn't get… — Imelda May Copy Share Image
The intentions of record companies are not good, from the musician's perspective. — Melissa Auf der Maur Copy Share Image
You can always pound out demos and send them to record companies, but most of the successful bands I've seen are the… — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
I used to run record companies, and I went to the advertising business at 29 years old. — Steve Stoute Copy Share Image
Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
Rock 'n' roll started to make so much money and generated so much income for the record companies that suddenly it was… — John Landis Copy Share Image
Everybody raps. We rap to make money. We do business. Ain't no other record company out there that sold as many records… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
American record companies seem to feel I am antiwestern, anticapitalism, anti the kind of society they like. They think I'm a troublemaker. — Fela Kuti Copy Share Image
Having a record company and putting out my own CD. There's clothes and shoes. There's also an upcoming book deal that I'm… — Metta World Peace Copy Share Image
About 1990 there was a huge shakeup in the music industry and the 6 major record companies fired all the music people… — Geoff Tate Copy Share Image
Back when Napster first came along, I started telling everybody Napster was like shooting yourself in the foot because you're stealing music.… — Butch Trucks Copy Share Image
It's a different world now: Stars come and go quickly, and there are so many of them. I read a statistic that… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
The fans like the idea we do what we want. It's not an act. Screw the record company and the beaten path.… — James Hetfield Copy Share Image
When a record company makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When a manager makes a mistake, the artist pays for… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
I don't determine the singles. I believe the record company sends a bunch of CDs out to people that they trust in… — Flora Purim Copy Share Image
I think the good thing about the Internet is to give something away and to sell something else. Get a business model… — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
But I did mine through a production company. All the music I did, I gave to the production company. Then the production… — Roy Ayers Copy Share Image
If you have good songs and a real desire to make music, the next thing to do, instead of approach record companies,… — James Blunt Copy Share Image
If I had to spend equal time doing paintings, and equal time going to galleries and doing art business, and equal time… — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
You also said in Rolling Stone that your look is based on mine. The look I chose, I chose on purpose at… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
That was an idea of the record company, and also that was my first album after MCA and we wanted to come… — Joe Sample Copy Share Image
I think bands will actually make more money without record companies; a much bigger share of the money will go to the… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I learned how difficult it is to be an artist. There are always compromises. The record company wants you to do this,… — Robert Hilburn Copy Share Image
When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - were run… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
I was going to study at the Sorbonne and become a diplomat. Being a diplomat comes in handy when you are dealing… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
I think all record companies should be run by a musician. Just as you wouldn't trust your health to an electrician. — Paul Bley Copy Share Image
I want the new band to work together for a while, and when we're ready we'll invite every major record company to… — Tommy Bolin Copy Share Image
Record companies, I found out, can put out compilations without your permission. — Pink Copy Share Image
I would love to show my clevage and more body parts off but my record company won't let me. — Britney Spears Copy Share Image
The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop. — John Lydon Copy Share Image
You used to make records, record companies sold them, and people went to record stores and bought them. That's all gone now. — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
What record companies do these days is drain the blood dry of an album, take six singles off it, and harm the… — Elton John Copy Share Image
The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
It's typical of record companies. They sign you because you're unique, and then they want to put you in a mold so… — Al Jourgensen Copy Share Image
Leaving Interscope was not a personal thing. These record companies are a certain kind of machine, and we weren't able to function… — Yolandi Visser Copy Share Image
Record companies feel they are the culture. Hip-hop has to begin to define, protect, and promote itself, and that's why we founded… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
What pisses me off is when I've got seven or eight record company fat pig men sitting there telling me what to… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
