Baby Quote by Debbi Peterson

Major labels have always been around our band since the beginning, and we just waited. We knew we had to do some things, and…

— Brian Fallon

We ceased to be a band the moment we made it. It left us with nothing. We felt like a failure although we had…

— Morten Harket

Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to start a record label.

— Kevin Abstract

We went into that knowing that we were never going to sell a major record 'cause we didn't sound like these bands, so I…

— Buzz Osborne

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

We were all friends who formed a band. We weren't auditioned or put together by a record label, management company or TV show.

— Keren Woodward

We really clicked with the label and they understood what we wanted to do as a band. They gave us a lot of freedom…

— Ryan Ross

I wanted to play in bands and get signed by a record label and tour the world and stuff, but that never really worked…

— Ramin Djawadi

The reason I never wanted to sign with a big label was because I didn't want no one telling me how to make my…

— Danny Brown

There was a moment, a few weeks after I signed, that it actually hit me. I was signed to a major label.

— Hozier

Signing to a major label was an experiment for us. It was a challenge: working in a big studio with a producer was a…

— Lee Ranaldo

The potential success that could come with signing with a major label didn't quite outweigh how important it was for me to make my…

— Kina Grannis