Being Quote by Tony Kanal

One of the reasons this record took so long to come out is that we withstood a lot of pressures and we were unwilling…

— Tony Kanal

We got to live though the record industry in its heyday.

— Tony Kanal

For a long time, I felt like I failed myself, my career, and my record company.

— Shawn Colvin

Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record…

— Roland Gift

The record business has been so unpleasant and so bad for so long.

— Steve Miller

A record company used to be a very good thing, but they ended up soul-destroyingly trapping people in the accounting department. And you couldn't…

— John Lydon

People thought we were crazy for starting a record company. They really thought I was shooting myself in the foot.

— John Prine

There's timing. And then there's also certain people at the record company who worked incredibly hard and were incredibly enthusiastic about what I was…

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.

— John Lydon

I left the entertainment industry part of my life behind in 1983, when we decided not to work with major record companies anymore.

— Arlo Guthrie

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

I run an independent company, Knockout Entertainment. We've always come out with records that had a concept that impacted really, really, really hard.

— Ray J