Those record companies don't know what's happening at all.

We had an EP out and all of a sudden we find record companies are interested in us, and we're thinking, 'Oh, that's really…

— Debbi Peterson

One startup I dream of funding is the one that kills the record companies.

— Paul Graham

You could have a zillion Facebook followers. Those people don't buy records. It's about a hundred to one...Record companies, they don't have any money,…

— Billy Corgan

Several record companies had rejected my song 'Owner of A Lonely Heart' on the grounds it was 'too left field.' I never create to…

— Trevor Rabin

I'm introverted, and I pay attention to my muse... Record companies used to go mad and say 'We don't know the deal with you.…

— Robert Palmer

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 left the entertainment industry part of my life behind in 1983, when we decided not to work with major record companies anymore.

— Arlo Guthrie

Money don't rule me, record companies don't rule me.

— Link Wray

One problem I have with drug companies is that they don't make all their data public.

— Irving Kirsch

Companies don't succeed, people do. Companies don't fail, people do.

— Nabil N Jamal

Companies don't innovate, people do.

— Phil Cooke

I always thought that if record companies didn't understand me, fine - I'd go and do it by myself.

— Estelle

I think the good thing about the Internet is to give something away and to sell something else. Get a business model like that…

— Roger McGuinn

There are no record companies in Waikiki.

— Bruno Mars

When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - were run by people…

— David Crosby