Company Quote by Jake Holmes

I've always seen myself as a working musician but now there's no money in records for the artist at all, it's all in live…

— Paul Young

The music business has changed incredibly. There used to be 50 record companies. Now there's only three, and it's just getting smaller and smaller.…

— Joey McIntyre

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

— Curt Smith

The whole music industry has completely and totally changed from how it was. It's very, very different. When we started, there were loads of…

— Susan Ann Sulley

You see so many musicians come and go. For me, it's really about the longevity in the music industry. It's not all about having…

— Mustard

There won't ever be a mass-market record industry again, and that's fine with me because that industry didn't operate for the benefit of the…

— Steve Albini

No one sells records anymore. It's all about touring. It's all greatest hits records and box sets. And even those don't sell. People just…

— Frank Stallone

[Performing artists] are making greater percentages. People are going to live events more and it's a big success story for everyone - except the…

— Russell Simmons

You can always pound out demos and send them to record companies, but most of the successful bands I've seen are the ones that…

— Joe Perry

I think these days, as an artist, you have to be slightly entrepreneurial. ...Nobody really sells records anymore.

— Boy George

Before the whole [music] business was calibrated around the selling of records. I never could have imagined that live performance would become kind of…

— Arthur Fogel

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