Art Quote by Jack Conte

If you look at something like Spotify, many record labels are investors in the company. So from that standpoint, the money is all going…

— Om Malik

The business of a label is to make money - my business is to make music. I'm gonna get paid if I do it…

— The-Dream

A label is like a bank with all these really important relationships, and maybe an aesthetic or a point of view. But if you…

— Robin Pecknold

As a new artist there are so many new ways to put music out there where you don't necessarily need a label because now…

— Ashanti

It's not like our own label. We don't need our own label no more. It's bigger than that, you know I sayin'? It's so…

— Mobb Deep

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

Labels don't want artists to put out mixtapes because they don't monetize it.

— Yo Gotti

The record business is an oxymoron. In the 1960s, there was an upside to selling plastic discs so labels took the risk - they…

— Tom Silverman

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

Commercial success still hasn't come to an artist that isn't signed to a record label. There are very few artists that can succeed without…

— Edgar Bronfman, Jr

The labels are in a jam. For a company to do well in music now, it's got to be in all aspects of the…

— Guy Oseary

Music has lot of money but labels are earning it all.

— Aditya Narayan