Record companies Quote by Walter Isaacson

I was being offered publishing deals, but also record deals.

— Griff

“Have you never met anyone who works in a record store? There is no greater repository of unjustified arrogance in the world.”

— Christopher Moore

I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers,…

— Solomon Burke

“In 1994, the average person spent $79 on books as compared to $56 on recorded music.”

— Richard L. Brandt

When I first heard Ray Charles, he was a flop artist on a small label in California. He hadn't sold any records. And I…

— Ahmet Ertegun

I had a publishing deal way before I had a record deal.

— Cole Swindell

Sometimes you are at the mercy of record companies or publishing companies.

— Belinda Carlisle

The record books aren't going to lie. They aren't going to say I sold out. They aren't going to say anything.

— Sheamus

As I look back, I understand what [the record company] was getting at. They were trying to market a record and make it as…

— Michael Buble

I didn't earn that much in record royalties. You've only got to look at my sales in 1980 to figure that one out.

— Paul McCartney

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 don't think that old-fashioned idea of record companies exists any more.

— Anonymous