Record companies Quotes

I understand quarterly billing, how the record companies run.

— Nikki Sixx

Records used to be documents, but now record companies want product.

— Stan Getz

The only thing the record companies put out now is 'Best of,'

— Elton John

Record company execs eat their young, I swear to God.

— Linda Barnes

If you don't have a record deal, you've got to be a record company.

— Mary Gauthier

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

— Ritchie Blackmore

Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart.

— Leif Garrett

Publishers and record companies love a broken heart.

— Donovan

Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live.

— Adam Ant

You have to be talented and you have to be lucky. Record companies are not signing classic rock groups anymore.

— Leslie West

First of all, you needed a budget to do the video. The record companies would pick and choose who got videos.

— Nina Blackwood

There aren't enough people who are scaring the kind of people who work at these record companies.

— Greg Ginn

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

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

Corporate America couldn't be more excited about the demise of the record companies.

— Michael Rapino

No matter how good you are you can fall prey to the big machines of the record companies.

— B-Real

I don't hear record companies coming up with any good ideas or suggestions. Historically, if it ain't their idea, it ain't no…

— Levon Helm

Today's consumer is less interested in possessing things and more in experiencing them. That's something the music industry needs to get its…

— Jimmy Chamberlin

Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking…

— Tony Visconti

It wasn't that we were afraid of the Church or the Vatican. The record company thought people might find the title offensive.…

— Kate Bush

The people who run record companies now wouldn't know a song if it flew up their nose and died. They haven't a…

— David Crosby

Record companies worrying more about market share than developing artists - I hear there was a time when if your first record…

— Michael Buble

We play the music we want to play and we play the places we want to play. I'd hate to be on…

— Ian Curtis

The music business has changed incredibly. There used to be 50 record companies. Now there's only three, and it's just getting smaller…

— Joey McIntyre

I've tried to stay true, in my own fashion, to the ideas of The Sex Pistols, even while I was working with…

— Julien Temple

I'm really glad we came up when we did. When we got started, the record companies were concerned with building careers. They…

— Philip Bailey

Over the years, I've had fairly benign record companies who gave me a lot of rope, but in spite of that, there's…

— Richard Thompson

I think everyone should sell whatever product they want to sell for whatever price they want to sell it for, but ultimately…

— Anonymous

PW spent time with Sigel in a New York recording studio shortly before he went away on his federal gun possession charge.…

— Beanie Sigel

Back in the early days like for the Temptations, Supremes and Four Tops, artist development was alive in record companies. Every artist…

— Laurieann Gibson

“There are ominous signs about the future of classical music. The record companies are facing threats from piracy and unauthorized downloading. It’s…

— Renee Fleming

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

— David Crosby

“In the end, the record companies have the power to control the quality that is served online. Online service has been problematic…

— Neil Young

There are no record companies in Waikiki.

— Bruno Mars

I don't think that old-fashioned idea of record companies exists any more.

— Anonymous

I took my life in my hands and social media has just helped me do that more.

— Imogen Heap

I think record companies are criminals.

— Jon Bon Jovi

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

— Link Wray

Record companies are not unique. Artists are. Period!

— Jimmy Iovine

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

— Paul Graham