Art Quote by Steve Stoute

Record companies don't think creatively about what something could possibly be because they are not filled with creative people. Nobody's looking at the future…

— Linda Perry

Record companies are not unique. Artists are. Period!

— Jimmy Iovine

I think these days, as an artist, you have to be slightly entrepreneurial. ...Nobody really sells records anymore.

— Boy George

You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage.

— Herb Alpert

One of the central flaws in the state of contemporary music is that the major record companies have failed to incorporate that simple fact…

— Moby

The music business has changed incredibly. There used to be 50 record companies. Now there's only three, and it's just getting smaller and smaller.…

— Joey McIntyre

The music business is really, really small. The real music is becoming almost extinct, if you don't stay true to who you are.

— Mary J. Blige

The way consumers interact with music is different now. It's not an albums business anymore; it's a singles business again, and the industry has…

— Troy Carter

I suspect that we might actually start selling some records with these artists in about 10 years. Some the people who invested, they're a…

— Branford Marsalis

Now we know that, the way contracts are set up, it's not really made for artists to get rich from selling records - that's…

— Lisa Lopes

I think the music business is probably not happy with what we've done, because the people buying the record have actually got to pick…

— John Otway

Before the whole [music] business was calibrated around the selling of records. I never could have imagined that live performance would become kind of…

— Arthur Fogel