Genius Quote by Courtney Barnett

I think people at most record labels really like music, but it's hard because everything is so subjective, and everyone's so creative in their…

— Nellie McKay

But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything…

— Adam Duritz

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

— Fantastic Negrito

When you don't have a record label and you have been on your own as we have, you can look at all these other…

— Andy Taylor

I've been running my own record label and doing my weekly radio shows, but people don't see the work. People only see your rise…

— Hardwell

It's hard to get people at a record company to talk about music. They don't seem to want to talk about music, it's all…

— Henry Rollins

I don't think people realize that I produce like 90 percent of all my music, except for the songs that I co-produce with people.

— JaVale McGee

I don't think a lot of people know what a real artist I am. I don't think they know I write my own music.

— Chanel West Coast

People always try to pigeonhole you, especially the media, who are happy if they can label you as a particular kind of artist. But…

— Chris de Burgh

The difference between me and other people in my generation is instead of saying the Internet's killing the record business, I say, 'Who cares…

— Daryl Hall

When you find fame, or you get signed to a record label, it's not what you imagined - because you imagined they would have…

— James Arthur

I decided to start my own label because so many people with talent come to me wanting to know how they can get in…

— Mary J. Blige