Billie holiday Quote by Tony Bennett

The record business is an oxymoron. In the 1960s, there was an upside to selling plastic discs so labels took the risk - they…

— Tom Silverman

I just know that, right now, ... the biggest record selling business there is is rock and roll.

— Elvis Presley

Rock and roll seems to have had a mellowing in the business where it got harder to sell individual records and make money doing…

— Conor Oberst

I grew up in an era where the record companies just sold records to everybody, and the whole family bought songs.

— Tony Bennett

When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - were run by people…

— David Crosby

Being a guy who was a geek with tape machines in the early days and really interested in how records get made, I was…

— Lee Ranaldo

When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - were run by people…

— David Crosby

You used to make records, record companies sold them, and people went to record stores and bought them. That's all gone now.

— Joe Walsh

The record business has always mystified me. Sometimes there are reasons why things sell or don't sell that can't be understood by mere mortals.

— Paul Shaffer

One of the first things I picked up when I was very, very young out of a record store was work from Peter Saville…

— Raf Simons

I had a recording contract with Capitol Records. I loved recording and being in that studio. I made four albums.

— George Chakiris

I'm really glad we came up when we did. When we got started, the record companies were concerned with building careers. They made sure…

— Philip Bailey