Albums Quote by John Lennon

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 built up a hardcore following, but we were really still semipro, gigging over long weekends and the like. So after EMI signed us,…

— Steve Harris

We had such a small budget making our first record, and the only way we could make it work was that the record company…

— Tony Kanal

I wanted out of my record deal with EMI. They wanted me to record one type of album; I wanted to record the type…

— Joss Stone

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

We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying…

— Pat Travers

Our band Stereophonics never wanted to release a couple records and be the biggest band in the world for 10 minutes. We always wanted…

— Kelly Jones

I was an artist, I was executive producer on my first album, so I've always had to manage both. I couldn't get a record…

— Jay-Z

From the beginning, with our first album, we wanted to make the music that maybe was lacking around us - the music that we…

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

In those days it was pretty cut and dry. If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then…

— Lou Gramm

We had a nightmare on our first album, and went through two producers. I decided, on the second album, to take the money that…

— Nuno Bettencourt

Back in the early days like for the Temptations, Supremes and Four Tops, artist development was alive in record companies. Every artist had a…

— Laurieann Gibson