Influence Quote by Brantley Gilbert

In my experience as a record producer, the people who most get involved are the people from independent labels who feel they have more…

— Andy Gill

My experience that undergirds that observation comes from punk, where people might have scraped together the money to be in the studio for an…

— David Grubbs

I listened to my record and hear lots of influences. And it's very rich... it's got a wide spectrum.

— Chantal Kreviazuk

Everybody influences everybody else, in my opinion. There are different trends in music all the time. No matter who starts them, if it's a…

— Chris Young

Being signed to a major label, it's a big machine behind you. There are so many people that are working to push the record.

— Trina

I think that every record has its own life and a different sound.

— Claudio Simonetti

Influences come from everywhere. I don't really feel like I had too many influences for the first record because I grew up listening to…

— Avril Lavigne

Basically, as everybody that has had a taste of the record business knows, they are gangsters and crooks.

— Steve Miller

You gotta remember: the record industry, in order for it to really thrive, has got to attract great people.

— Jimmy Iovine

I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.

— Jason Mraz

We've been around long enough that there have certainly been people at every stage of our career telling us about one or another record…

— Lee Ranaldo

The big labels have less of a stranglehold on artists and how they record and where they go.

— Kim Wilde