Sometimes you are at the mercy of record companies or publishing companies. — Belinda Carlisle Copy Share Image
The record companies really do conspire against the artists. Especially the black artists — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
I've been in fortunate position of never really having to battle with my record company to do the things I wanted to… — Jonny Lang Copy Share Image
I want the new band to work together for a while, and when we're ready we'll invite every major record company to… — Tommy Bolin Copy Share Image
I think all record companies should be run by a musician. Just as you wouldn't trust your health to an electrician. — Paul Bley Copy Share Image
What record companies do these days is drain the blood dry of an album, take six singles off it, and harm the… — Elton John Copy Share Image
Record companies, I found out, can put out compilations without your permission. — Pink Copy Share Image
I would love to show my clevage and more body parts off but my record company won't let me. — Britney Spears Copy Share Image
The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop. — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Well, the good news is that there's quite a lot of cynicism about major labels within radio and the press. I think… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
I think the consumption of music is at an all-time high. But I think the ways that record companies are trying to… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I'm not a corporate machine. I'm not Lady Gaga, I'm not Madonna, I don't have a million dollars behind me and big… — Bebe Buell Copy Share Image
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… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I gave away the money advanced from my record company on my first album, I'm the type of person who likes to… — Jo Dee Messina Copy Share Image
I heard a quote once in a documentary about a band that said you're better off owning everything 100 percent and selling… — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
I don't relate to what's left of the music business. There doesn't seem to be any point to it anymore. The business… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
Record companies are like cat breeders who find a breed they can make some money off of, in-breed it until it's sickly… — Michael Penn Copy Share Image
I got out of the music industry many years ago. I had a charlatan for a producer who I wanted nothing to… — Leon Redbone Copy Share Image
But I did mine through a production company. All the music I did, I gave to the production company. Then the production… — Roy Ayers Copy Share Image
If I had to spend equal time doing paintings, and equal time going to galleries and doing art business, and equal time… — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
If you have good songs and a real desire to make music, the next thing to do, instead of approach record companies,… — James Blunt Copy Share Image
I think bands will actually make more money without record companies; a much bigger share of the money will go to the… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
You also said in Rolling Stone that your look is based on mine. The look I chose, I chose on purpose at… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
That was an idea of the record company, and also that was my first album after MCA and we wanted to come… — Joe Sample Copy Share Image
I learned how difficult it is to be an artist. There are always compromises. The record company wants you to do this,… — Robert Hilburn Copy Share Image
You used to make records, record companies sold them, and people went to record stores and bought them. That's all gone now. — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
It's typical of record companies. They sign you because you're unique, and then they want to put you in a mold so… — Al Jourgensen Copy Share Image
Leaving Interscope was not a personal thing. These record companies are a certain kind of machine, and we weren't able to function… — Yolandi Visser Copy Share Image
'Love Tattoo' I recorded without a record company. I'd gotten turned down by the record companies - they said they didn't get… — Imelda May Copy Share Image
I grew up in an era where the record companies just sold records to everybody, and the whole family bought songs. — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups. — Norman Granz Copy Share Image
You can always pound out demos and send them to record companies, but most of the successful bands I've seen are the… — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
I used to run record companies, and I went to the advertising business at 29 years old. — Steve Stoute Copy Share Image
Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
The intentions of record companies are not good, from the musician's perspective. — Melissa Auf der Maur Copy Share Image
American record companies seem to feel I am antiwestern, anticapitalism, anti the kind of society they like. They think I'm a troublemaker. — Fela Kuti Copy Share Image
I was going to study at the Sorbonne and become a diplomat. Being a diplomat comes in handy when you are dealing… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
