Bad Quote by Don McLean

I feel like the music speaks for itself. Actually, we had less to prove than most bands coming out at the time because they…

— Gym Class Heroes

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

United Artists wanted to do records with me. I had no idea, what a rare thing that was... to make an album. And they…

— John Astin

We didn't have that big-label push. We weren't the kind of band that our label Warner Bros. Records was going to throw all this…

— Wayne Static

Well, the good news is that there's quite a lot of cynicism about major labels within radio and the press. I think they have…

— Mick Hucknall

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

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

We had to take full advantage of the fact that we wanted to be one of the most creative bands out there that's getting…

— Zacky Vengeance

The music industry has completely restructured itself in the last couple of years because it hasn't been making money. Labels are signing bands they…

— Caroline Polachek

Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band.

— Bruce Dickinson

The only band that I can see that made changes over the years with success was The Beatles. They were able to change album…

— Johnny Ramone

The big labels have less of a stranglehold on artists and how they record and where they go.

— Kim Wilde