Deep Quote by Rev. Run

What I learned from the Beastie Boys was to be independent. They set up their own world separate from the label. They built their…

— Spike Jonze

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 very lucky, and we were really honored with how amazing our family is now at Hollywood Records... They believed in us, and…

— Kevin Jonas

The first record we made in three days. We literally stayed up for three days making the first album. It was crazy, crazy, crazy…

— John Rzeznik

Billboard called my solo album, 'Standing In The Spotlight,' a great party album and even said that my raps put the Beastie Boys to…

— Dee Dee Ramone

It's a pretty great thing to have a record that at the end of the day you're not totally sick of and you're actually…

— Wesley Schultz

One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who…

— Waylon Jennings

Some record labels want to package you in a certain way and we didn't want that. Once the record company saw we had some…

— Christian Burns

I most definitely wanted to make a record out of it. Due to the fact of the negativity and things that transitioned over the…

— Tony Sunshine

We aren't just some record to put out before the new Pussycat Dolls CD!

— Chad Gilbert

I was only halfway to the record and it seemed like it took me a long time. I feel like that one will never…

— Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

We pushed our first record, 'Boomerang,' to different labels, but it was hard for them to see though the 'white guys singing R&B' thing.

— Isaac Hanson