Accounting Quote by Chris Cornell

A record company used to be a very good thing, but they ended up soul-destroyingly trapping people in the accounting department. And you couldn't…

— John Lydon

I gave up accounting. I went in for about six months writing ad copy. I was fired from that, and then another guy and…

— Bob Newhart

We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.

— Robert Wyatt

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

Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes…

— David Crosby

Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money.

— Mel Torme

Somebody sold millions of record before. I want to do something that hasn't been done.

— Mase

There's really no money per se to be made on records. We used to make a lot of money on records. Now, all of…

— Joey Kramer

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

— David Crosby

I felt that making records in a traditional way - putting them out in the same way, wasting loads of money - was just…

— Boy George

My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.

— T Bone Burnett

The key, I think, from a business point of view, is to learn how to be efficient in making a record that's not too…

— John Oates