Record Companies Quotes - Page 2

• It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it.

  Helen Reddy

  Bad Years, America, Long

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• There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.

  Prince

  Artist, Law, Records

  "Prince Wants Cover Songs Outlawed: What's the Best Cover Song of All Time?". www.foxnews.com. April 26, 2011.

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• The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.

  Charley Pride

  Country, Fans, Moguls

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• Record companies, I found out, can put out compilations without your permission.

  Pink

  Records, Permission, Found

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• Every time I release an album my old record company releases another one.

  Bonnie Tyler

  Albums, Records, Release

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

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• We've managed to have a long career that is still quite vibrant, yet we've never had to kow-tow to record companies who said we weren't commercial enough.

  Alex Lifeson

  Careers, Long, Records

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• It's a battle between record company, between producer and between mastering engineer. Because the louder you make your record in a digital process, the more dynamics are squished out of it. Nobody knows exactly what happens, but the dynamics in the performance disappear, and everything is at the same volume.

  Geddy Lee

  Battle, Records, Dynamics

  "Geddy Lee and Billy Corgan on concept albums, jamming, singing and more". Interview with Joe Bosso, www.musicradar.com. June 25, 2012.

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• The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I'm from. Well, I can't write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation.

  Billy Ray Cyrus

  Song, Inspiration, Writing

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• Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you're in big trouble if you're borrowing more than you can ever afford to pay back. Delaying the pain for future generations is suicidal. We've got to start getting the deficit down right now, not next year.

  Simon Cowell

  Suicide, Running, Pain

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• There's the famous thing that the A&R man from the record company is supposed to do: He's supposed to come into the studio and listen to the songs you've been recording and then say, 'Guys, I don't hear any singles.' And then everybody falls into a terrible depression because you have to write one.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Song, Fall, Writing

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• The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

  David Byrne

  Records, Demise, World

  Interview with Anne Pasternak, creativetime.org.

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

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Thinking, Ideas, Records

  "Question time: Sophie Ellis-Bextor". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2009.

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• It's all false pressure; you put the heat on yourself, you get it from the networks and record companies and movie studios. You put more pressure on yourself to make everything that much harder.

  John Belushi

  Records, Pressure, Heat

  "Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi". Book by Bob Woodward, p. 209, 1984.

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• Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live.

  Adam Ant

  Records, Decline, Company

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• I produce the records. I don't hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record company and then tries to bend me to their will - for commercial purposes.

  Tori Amos

  Hands, Trying, Purpose

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• Between the record companies being the way they are and the fact that people can just download one song instead of buying a whole album, it's hard to make a good living nowadays.

  Dimebag Darrell

  Song, People, Albums

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• Record companies are not necessarily interested in you realizing your artistic dream. The bottom line is that they got to sell records.

  Mos Def

  Dream, Records, Lines

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• I was too shy, I think, to sing publicly. It takes a particular kind of person. And when I was young, I was not that person. In the first instance, when a record company said to me, do you want to try and make your record, my first reaction was, no, I'm not worthy - I couldn't possibly, and so on and so forth.

  Hugh Laurie

  Thinking, Trying, Shy

  "Hugh Laurie Puts Blues In The House". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. August 18, 2013.

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• The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Falling In Love, Records, Rich

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

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• Those record companies don't know what's happening at all.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Records, Company, Knows

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• I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind.

  Etta James

  Mind, Records, Said

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• You could have a zillion Facebook followers. Those people don't buy records. It's about a hundred to one...Record companies, they don't have any money so they see social media as the free marketing...So,...'Billy, light yourself on fire and stand upside down, and that'll market the record'. I've spent a lot of time thinking about this. I don't think people by records because of anything that happens on Facebook. They buy records cause they're friends say 'I bought this record and I love it'.

  Billy Corgan

  Thinking, Fire, Light

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• I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company.

  Don Henley

  Long, Records, Enough

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

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• When people start writing songs for award shows, there's a very limited palette you can use. You end up not sounding like you. You end up sounding like somebody else. You end up getting what the record company thinks they can market.

  Mike Dirnt

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I told the record company I didn't feel the need to be at red-carpet events. I wanted a career. But I wanted to keep myself intact as a person.

  Enya

  Careers, Red Lipstick, Events

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

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