Acoustics Quote by Dave Van Ronk

There were bars that began to have acoustic musicians play, it was 1970: Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, America, The Eagles, all that kind of…

— Shawn Colvin

I remember at a very early age ringing up record labels I found in the Yellow Pages, and asking them for a record deal.

— Ashley Walters

Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system…

— Tommy Shaw

Back in the Seventies, we bucked the trend. Instead of going to London and handing in a demo tape, we insisted the record labels…

— Jim Kerr

I'm very aware of what, say, electric guitar recordings in the '60s sounded like.

— Rostam Batmanglij

The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in the early…

— Jimmy Buffett

Back in the day, I don't think record labels were looking at Las Vegas too much for new acts, until the Killers came out.

— Ronnie Radke

Throughout college I was getting better and better at making recordings, producing songs, making different kinds of beats. I was starting to learn the…

— Rostam Batmanglij

Back in the '80s and '90s, when there was still a record business, there was pressure on anyone who was fortunate to have a…

— John Mellencamp

Certainly our records could be found in most of the mom and pop indie stores, but we still found there were a lot of…

— Lee Ranaldo

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

— David Crosby

Before the whole [music] business was calibrated around the selling of records. I never could have imagined that live performance would become kind of…

— Arthur Fogel