Band Quote by Guy Garvey

Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record…

— Roland Gift

The record companies don't give you a chance, like in the old days when they went, 'Here's a pile of money. Go make a…

— Till Lindemann

I'm really glad we came up when we did. When we got started, the record companies were concerned with building careers. They made sure…

— Philip Bailey

We've been lucky. Even as a young, local-level band, we were able to rise out of the local scene without having any debt, without…

— Tyler Joseph

When your band is no longer just your band but is an industry within an industry it can be a lot on youngish shoulders.

— Jim Kerr

Today the kids that are out now they make a hit record and they put them right out on the stage with 10,000 people…

— Billy Eckstine

You gotta remember: the record industry, in order for it to really thrive, has got to attract great people.

— Jimmy Iovine

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 was really running a music school back then, because my band wasn't making any money. I keep talking about money, because most people…

— Artie Shaw

When I was a youngster, I wrote all this music - it just came out of me - and I think record executives were…

— Fantastic Negrito

There's really no money per se to be made on records. We used to make a lot of money on records. Now, all of…

— Joey Kramer

Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid in Cincinnati who buys our album and doesn't feel…

— Chris Martin