Being Quote by Erick Morillo

That's the best thing about being with an indie label, it feels like a family. If it's a major label, they put so much…

— Freya Ridings

There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for…

— Sam Tsui

Indie music is picking up and artistes are more confident about putting out music with no big name attached to it.

— Amaal Mallik

If you're on an indie label, you're not getting enough money. And if you're on a major, you're not getting enough support.

— Kate Nash

I'd only do a deal with a label if it allowed me to still be indie and have that indie mentality. I have to…

— Dawn Richard

Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so…

— Ian MacKaye

The only thing major labels can really offer is money.

— Conor Oberst

I'm trying to give people the chance to put out their music without the bullshit pressures of other labels.

— Dizzee Rascal

You would think that anyone on a major label would be doing something, but when you speak of major label that means something to…

— Lester Bowie

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

— Kim Wilde

If you're not on a major label today, you're not gonna get played. They've got the market sewed up.

— Mickey Gilley

I want people to get out of that nasty habit of needing a label. Every genre for each song is different.

— SZA