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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

Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so…

— Ian MacKaye

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

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 didn't have that big-label push. We weren't the kind of band that our label Warner Bros. Records was going to throw all this…

— Wayne Static

If somebody were to have told me that I wasn't gonna get signed with a label deal until the end of my 20s, I…

— Michael Penn

Our first album was a stupid mistake by the record company. They tried to sell us as an alternative act. A big mistake!

— Lauryn Hill

It used to be that labels would spend two or three or four albums developing a new artist before they threw in the towel…

— Lari White

The thing that I did not like about being signed to a label was I unable to have control over what I wanted to…

— Jessica Sanchez

We had this budding baby band going and we hadn't reached that development we wanted to reach before we got signed to a major…

— Debbi Peterson

I've had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, 'Your music sucks, you don't know who you are, your music…

— Bruno Mars

Technically, at this point we're no longer with the label; we've fulfilled our contract.

— Peter Steele