Band Quote by Mat McNerney

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

— Curt Smith

This hype word bothers me though It always sounds like an accusation, what does it mean, advertising, column inches in the press? Bands themselves…

— Holly Johnson

It costs lots of money to make records. It costs lots of money to generate artwork and manufacture and then ship things to people.…

— Matt Snell

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

We try and stay out of the corporate side of it. The band has never compromised. At some point in our career we could…

— Adrian Smith

You don't want the biggest record deal as far as money goes, you just want to make sure that the people at the label…

— Adam Rich

In many cases bands have a lot to overcome, business being what it is.

— Chris Stein

The music industry has completely restructured itself in the last couple of years because it hasn't been making money. Labels are signing bands they…

— Caroline Polachek

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

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

For us, being a label, we took out the whole aspect of the business that goes into sifting through people who don't care, who…

— Zac Hanson

People think this is a competition between bands, when the reality is the more successful bands the better.

— M. Shadows