Bands Quote by Lee Ranaldo

We'd been on Geffen for a long time, and I think we felt that we needed a change. I just don't think we felt…

— Lee Ranaldo

I'm a huge fan of Geffen records. Everything about them - their artists, their videos, their marketing.

— Guy Oseary

Being on United Artists was almost as bad as not being on any label at all. They were the crappiest in the business. All…

— Don McLean

Bands are more willing to take risks and we don't need this big label over us anymore telling us what it means to sell…

— Mat McNerney

Nirvana is a very exclusive club - no one is in it.

— Frederick Lenz

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

To be honest, the search for a label was really weird, because some of the labels that you wouldn't expect to care about stuff…

— Ryan Ross

There's only one band that could ever even pretend to assume the mantle of what the Beatles did, who have been so pre-eminent and…

— Todd Rundgren

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

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

I don't think the label cares about an album... People just want their number-one record.

— Peter Tosh

I just think that the way the industry is changing and the world is changing, it might make more sense in two years for…

— Penn Dayton Badgley