I did my first album with my own record label.

'The White Album' is a record I can go back to time and time again, and always find something different that I never noticed…

— Mark Hoppus

We knew we wanted to put a lot of melody into it - a lot more than what we did on our first album.

— John Otto

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…

— John Scofield

Heath Ledger was supposed to put our album on what would have been a new record label. I still feel a little dead after…

— Alex Ebert

I run a whole record label, I'm a whole entrepreneur.

— Boosie

There's this idea of a star, and this person is very aloof and writes all the music, and they don't talk to anyone unless…

— Imogen Heap

Anyone who's an executive at a record label does not understand what the Internet is, how it works, how people use it, how fans…

— Trent Reznor

If you have good songs and a real desire to make music, the next thing to do, instead of approach record companies, is to…

— James Blunt

I don't have to be working on an album to record a song.

— DMX

I can't wait until the record label feels like it's time for my album to come out, and then just disappear.

— Donnis

“A&R stands for “artists and repertoire.” No one knows what that means, but the A&R guy is the person at the record label in…

— Dave Hill

My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time.

— Rosanne Cash

The record label used to try and make us do stuff, like dance, and we'd say, nah, not doing that.

— Keren Woodward

I just have so much love for my record label.

— Katy Perry

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