Record Companies Quotes

• I took my life in my hands and social media has just helped me do that more.

  Imogen Heap

  Hands, Media, Social

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• 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

  Mistake, Stupid, Albums

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• These record companies are going to be going out of business pretty soon, because people are just going to be downloading what they want to hear.

  Lester Bowie

  People, Going Out, Records

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• Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their music is owned by the record company. But I did mine through a production company.

  Roy Ayers

  Artist, Records, Contracts

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• Everybody raps. We rap to make money. We do business. Ain't no other record company out there that sold as many records as we did.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rap, Records, Making Money

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• Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.

  Gary Wright

  Music, Artist, Records

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• Oh, you know record companies. . . at the end of the day, it's business. If you analyse it, you're just a piece of meat. The minute you go bad, it's: 'Next!'.

  Enrique Iglesias

  The End Of The Day, Meat, Pieces

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• The only thing the record companies put out now is 'Best of,'

  Elton John

  Records, Company

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• PW spent time with Sigel in a New York recording studio shortly before he went away on his federal gun possession charge. He paged through a book of promotional photos of himself, one of which was shot shortly after 911. It featured him holding a copy of the Bible upright in one palm while the Koran rose from the other the Twin Towers. Some of the record company people, they wouldn't let me put this out, ... They said it would be too controversial. But this picture is saying 'Look, they can stand together. Don't have to be no fight.'

  Beanie Sigel

  New York, Book, Fighting

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• All we had ever heard about record company people is that they were vampires and criminals...and they killed Elvis Presley.

  Bjork

  People, Vampire, Criminals

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• About 1990 there was a huge shakeup in the music industry and the 6 major record companies fired all the music people and hired business graduates to take over the spots. So the music became not as important. What really became important was the bottom line, how much money you could make.

  Geoff Tate

  People, Important, Lines

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• Back in the early days like for the Temptations, Supremes and Four Tops, artist development was alive in record companies. Every artist had a moment to develop the record visually. When the web took over and camera phones, it stripped the artists of the power to figure it out. So there's a need to bridge that gap and that's my job.

  Laurieann Gibson

  Jobs, Artist, Phones

  "Laurieann Gibson: 'We've Created a New Jerusalem' With Lady Gaga's 'Judas' Video". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 10, 2011.

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• The only thing I have no control over is the politics that goes on within the record company. It's always been the same, but it's far tougher now, because record companies are run by financial people; before, they were run by creative people.

  Enrique Iglesias

  Running, People, Creative

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• I want the new band to work together for a while, and when we're ready we'll invite every major record company to see us.

  Tommy Bolin

  Working Together, Band, Records

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• If you don't have a record deal, you've got to be a record company.

  Mary Gauthier

  Records, Deals, Company

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• And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it's catchy, and you've got a little bit of help, I think that's all you need. But there hasn't been that in music.

  Joan Jett

  Song, Fighting, Thinking

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• I heard a quote once in a documentary about a band that said you're better off owning everything 100 percent and selling 20,000 copies of an album than signing with a record company and selling a million copies. There has never been a truer statement about show business than that.

  Bill Burr

  Documentaries, Albums, Band

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• Concerning iTunes, the deals have mainly been done with the record companies. But the artists, with some exceptions, haven't been very well-represented. This is partly because the record companies have largely been copyright owners.

  Peter Gabriel

  Artist, Done, Records

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• But I did mine through a production company. All the music I did, I gave to the production company. Then the production company would give the record company the album. I used to do all my albums like that. It was fantastic. But now, understand, I have never planned to do anything with these other tapes. The one that are released, like the Virgin Ubiquity you have there, I wasn't going to do anything with that music. One day, I was talking to this guy that owns BBE over in England, and I said I've got some tapes and stuff that you might be interested in, and he went berserk.

  Roy Ayers

  Talking, Ubiquity, Giving

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• When I do an album I try to find a producer that's excited about something that they want me to sing, and I check with the record company to find out what they think they can sell - which is their No. 1 priority.

  Johnny Mathis

  Thinking, Priorities, Trying

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• I'm really happy that I got to work with such fresh talent. In a day when record companies are not particularly good at encouraging young, talented songwriters to come forward and get exposure, I think it's important to give tomorrow's songwriters the opportunity.

  Robin Gibb

  Opportunity, Thinking, Giving

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am not going to be dictated to by fans, certainly. I am dictated enough to by my record company to last me a million years.

  Marvin Gaye

  Years, Fans, Records

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• Sometimes, you release an album and the record company just about ignores it, and so many people don't even know it's out. And I'm not about to jump up and down shouting, "Hey folks, look at me! I'm cool and groovy!" That's not what George Harrison is all about.

  George Harrison

  People, Albums, Looks

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• I don't want a record company, but I need one, unfortunately.

  Melissa Auf der Maur

  Needs, Records, Want

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• I wouldn't say that we're proactively out there hunting down brands to try to fulfill some piece of a larger battle plan or something. If they have things they want to get to us, we're somewhat easily accessible through our managers and record companies.

  Lars Ulrich

  Hunting, Battle, Trying

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