Artist Quote by Prince

Here's the way the licensing works ... If you write a song, nobody can record your song before you do without your permission. But,…

— Frank Zappa

In this age when people expect to get their music for free, we have to work out how we can protect the rights of…

— Clive Davis

The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn't happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it.

— Ben Folds

Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.

— Nile Rodgers

The law is against us music composers. We have no legal control over our compositions. Music companies are selling our songs to producers at…

— Rajesh Roshan

Music is admitted under the skin without permission.

— Jon Foreman

The internet has not granted us more control in relation to the record company because we're still bound by an agreement with them not…

— Rivers Cuomo

If music is to continue to support the livelihoods of artists, it cannot be taken without the permission of artists.

— Jean-Michel Jarre

Unless you've given up your business to a record label, there's no such thing as just being a musician anymore.

— Jack Conte

I don't wait on the music industry to qualify me or give me my paycheck. I go about my business as an artist and…

— Perry Farrell

When it comes to the business side of it, as much as you might hate it, the reality is that you give the record…

— Paolo Nutini

When you record for a label, they own that material in perpetuity, meaning that they can release, chose not to release , or repackage…

— Edgar Winter