Record store Quote by Christopher Moore

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

— B-Real

Sometimes you are at the mercy of record companies or publishing companies.

— Belinda Carlisle

I don't have to worry about what the average record company person thinks because I am the record company person.

— Terence Trent D'Arby

I think record companies are criminals.

— Jon Bon Jovi

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

— Anonymous

The record company has fought for themselves, never for me.

— The-Dream

The record business has always mystified me. Sometimes there are reasons why things sell or don't sell that can't be understood by mere mortals.

— Paul Shaffer

In reality, there's a limit to putting a record out yourself. When it comes to working with major record companies in the context of…

— Kevin Shields

The record industry is a world within itself.

— Edwin Starr

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

When I was a youngster, I wrote all this music - it just came out of me - and I think record executives were…

— Fantastic Negrito

“them for at most $9.99. Jobs came in and offered publishers what he had refused to offer record companies: They could set any price…

— Walter Isaacson