Albums Quote by Ezra Koenig

People will download the music for free and they'll pay for it if they want to give you a compliment. They don't have to…

— Joss Stone

If you are a musician who has released albums, it would perhaps be morbidly interesting to know how much you would be owed if…

— Henry Rollins

People now have been conditioned to believe they should only buy one song at a time, that nobody can make an entire record that…

— Brian McKnight

I feel fortunate to have made records during an era where people actually bought music. But I have friends in struggling up-and-coming bands now…

— Tom Morello

It costs lots of money to make records. It costs lots of money to generate artwork and manufacture and then ship things to people.…

— Matt Snell

You don't want the biggest record deal as far as money goes, you just want to make sure that the people at the label…

— Adam Rich

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

I like to believe a true fan of music or an artist has a genuine respect for what the artist does and has a…

— Ben Howard

I think for us, we don't feel like the future of music is in the act of being a record company. We feel like…

— Zac Hanson

You know, if a band on a label sold a few hundred thousand copies of their record these days, they wouldn't make any money.…

— Tom DeLonge

When you start out as a band, you stake your claim and you go for it. And there's a part of you that dreams…

— Edward Kowalczyk

People don't really buy records anymore, so record companies won't invest in bands like us. They want cookie-cutter acts.

— Curt Smith