Artistic Quote by Caroline Polachek

I think labels for the most part want to sign new discoveries so that that label alone is seen to be responsible for the…

— Steven Morrissey

Most bands, when they sign with a major, are from an indie. They usually start off with a big dilemma. They think they're selling…

— James Dean Bradfield

The labels can't do anything for a band anymore - they're stuck and they have no money and they're just holding onto contracts that…

— Tom DeLonge

For us, being a label, we took out the whole aspect of the business that goes into sifting through people who don't care, who…

— Zac Hanson

Bands are more willing to take risks and we don't need this big label over us anymore telling us what it means to sell…

— Mat McNerney

Record labels, which used to have complete control, are essentially irrelevant. The process of a band exposing itself to the world is extremely democratic…

— Steve Albini

Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it…

— Ian MacKaye

It breaks my heart to see these young, really talented bands getting chewed up into the system. I remember a time if you'd signed…

— Mike Peters

The music business is suffering because fewer artists are being invested in. Labels are putting in less money, taking fewer risks and signing half…

— Tom Silverman

I have always maintained that paradigm shift away from signing Rock and Metal acts is part of the decline in sales the major labels…

— David Ellefson

I just think that any person who wants music to be their career shouldn't focus on a record label. I have seen friends who…

— Lauv

There are a lot of people in the industry and stuff who said no we don't want to sign a guitar band, that's not…

— Luke Hemmings