Art Quote by Robert Fripp

A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

— Lady Gaga

In theory, when you're working with a record label, you're just borrowing their money. And that's basically how the record industry works, right? It's…

— Patrick Carney

If you make mistakes, you pay for them.

— Nico Hulkenberg

Our society and media have lost touch with the job of the artist. The job of the artist has been subordinated to the job…

— Terence Trent D'Arby

You work for a record deal, and you work for writing a record, and you mix and master the record and put it out,…

— Uncle Kracker

As an artist, your only way to battle your label if you have a discrepancy is to go to court. I don't understand why…

— Martie Maguire

Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their music is owned by the record company.…

— Roy Ayers

I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for…

— Jo Stafford

I was an artist, I was executive producer on my first album, so I've always had to manage both. I couldn't get a record…

— Jay-Z

Originally a record producer more or less hired a bunch of professionals to participate in a recording session, the performers and the technicians, and…

— Tony Visconti

My responsibility is to the artist first. There's something that artists intrinsically know about their music and their fanbase that neither the record company…

— Nile Rodgers

If you do something brilliant that fetches the company good, then you are doing your job and what you are paid for. But if…

— Sanji-Paul Arvind