My experience with record labels throughout my career has generally fallen into wishing I could do things that they're not built to… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
The band has always been such a huge part of my life and it kept me very busy. That, in combination with… — Blake Judd Copy Share Image
I built a reputation as a songwriter in the industry before my own hits. People were used to coming to me for… — Emeli Sande Copy Share Image
Every time I meet the CEO of a record label I tell them how they did it in the seventies because they… — Tony Visconti Copy Share Image
I had to learn the hard way. There was a blindness, without any education or will or drive. Everything I started in… — Rob Dyrdek Copy Share Image
This is a very screwed-up business. Record labels don't sign a lot of bands these days. We just want to find a… — Andy Taylor Copy Share Image
When I first started out in the music industry and went to Elektra Records, I didn't go to be an artist, I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Friends of friends had bands in college or in their early 20s and had a moment where they had some kind of… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
So you have to just be really careful and make sure that when a deal comes along, that it's like the right… — Adam Rich Copy Share Image
I've always had to deal with being biracial, even in music. When I came on the scene, I'd go to these record… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
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… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
I don't get a lot of big offers. Never have in my career. For some reason, record labels don't call me, famous… — Gordon Raphael Copy Share Image
Remember the Stax label and how if you liked one record, you liked all the others as well? You don't talk to… — Darius Rucker Copy Share Image
I have hundreds and hundreds of songs waiting to get on albums, but I don't know about the three-month radio tours and… — Jewel Copy Share Image
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,… — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
And the next album I do is going to be different because I'm going to change. I already did that thing where… — Laura Bell Bundy Copy Share Image
Island Records was the first record label to... acknowledge me. After that, quickly, Republic Records, and then Atlantic Records, Sony Records and… — Shawn Mendes Copy Share Image
The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed: the major record labels let Apple take over the… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Commercial success still hasn't come to an artist that isn't signed to a record label. There are very few artists that can… — Edgar Bronfman, Jr Copy Share Image
[Jack Johnson] became a superstar and started his own record label, and then he made and produced my first record, he co-wrote… — Donavon Frankenreiter Copy Share Image
When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contract and… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
It was a lot easier to write songs before I had a record deal, because the record labels and the industry doesn't… — Ashton Shepherd Copy Share Image
The Moody Blues were a blues band, so when we got discovered, we were taken to London. That's where we started to… — Denny Laine Copy Share Image
I think that every record label has its trials and tribulations, its ups and downs. The only thing you can do is… — El-P Copy Share Image
Some record labels want to package you in a certain way and we didn't want that. Once the record company saw we… — Christian Burns Copy Share Image
For me, I guess, just learning that just because there's not a whole lot of female MCs on the front lines being… — MC Lyte Copy Share Image
“In the end, it is your responsibility to read the small print, whether it is for gig contracts, record contracts, investors, management,… — Loren Weisman Copy Share Image
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