Record labels today are much less patient: Artists have a…

Nowadays, it's a lot more in the kids hands. You don't really need a record label. You can get the money together yourselves. You…

— Mattew Nicholls

Roads are a record of those who have gone before.

— Rebecca Solnit

I've always said winning's the great deodorant, and conversely, when you have a bad record, everything stinks, and everything starts to unravel, and everything…

— John Madden

“Surely ghosts will follow wherever there is bad record keeping”

— Colin Dickey

Nobody sets out to make a bad record.

— Alex Van Halen

Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models.

— George E. P. Box

Being on United Artists was almost as bad as not being on any label at all. They were the crappiest in the business. All…

— Don McLean

Exclusives are bad for artists, bad for consumers, and bad for the whole industry.

— Troy Carter

Decent artists go through bad times but eventually they do get recognized. It's by no means a battle lost. Yet.

— Louis Auchincloss

“The downfall of classical ideals made all men potential artists, and therefore bad artists. When art depended on solid construction and the careful observance…

— Fernando Pessoa

When I first started out in the music industry and went to Elektra Records, I didn't go to be an artist, I went to…

— Anonymous

The big, big record labels have so much control. I think too much control that it actually made their artists scared to not do…

— Joss Stone

I had to learn the hard way. There was a blindness, without any education or will or drive. Everything I started in the beginning…

— Rob Dyrdek

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

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…

— Ashton Shepherd