Band Quote by Jello Biafra

All of these reissues were not authorized by me, I do not endorse them, the live album was put out without my permission, and…

— Jello Biafra

Sometimes, reissues can be revelatory, or put the original record in a different light, but those are rare.

— Beck

I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for…

— Jo Stafford

Only the fact that people have written about the reissue have I realized that it spent seven weeks at No. 1. At the time…

— George Harrison

There were some hardcore fans who thought I was ruining the band they loved. And now there's this document, 'The Doors Unhinged,' which, hopefully,…

— John Densmore

When I first tried to get a record deal for my original music, labels didn’t understand what these instruments were meant to be doing

— Suzanne Ciani

I suppose we'll make money off our album and our singles and stuff, but, like, they were made as we wanted them, exactly with…

— Sid Vicious

Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that's it. Some of them don't have…

— George Jones

You know, we have a long history of covering different periods of this band's development with a live record... a sort of live thing…

— Alex Lifeson

The labels can't do anything for a band anymore - they're stuck and they have no money and they're just holding onto contracts that…

— Tom DeLonge

The band cannot sign to another label or even put out its own material unless they are released from their agreement, which never happens.

— Steve Albini

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