Any Quote by John Oates

Major labels just lost their way. It's like the housing bubble. They lost a sense of the fundamentals.

— Win Butler

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

After coming from a major label, I realized the entire business has been decimated, and you can't look to labels to try to figure…

— Trent Reznor

Record labels, which used to have complete control, are essentially irrelevant. The process of a band exposing itself to the world is extremely democratic…

— Steve Albini

Major labels don't want to take chances on cooler, indie kind of things. People only know, unfortunately, what they're being spoon-fed.

— Erick Morillo

Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so…

— Ian MacKaye

Labels want to capture a certain market of kids and blah blah blah, and it's true, I just never think about that stuff. It's…

— Marnie Stern

I'm constantly being courted by labels and their backing. Obviously the market is there when you talk about the economics and the numbers, but…

— Brian McKnight

There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between labels, publishing companies and artists. A lot of it has to do with older licensing schemes.

— Sean Parker

Well, the good news is that there's quite a lot of cynicism about major labels within radio and the press. I think they have…

— Mick Hucknall

Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the…

— Ian MacKaye

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