Record Companies Quotes - Page 3

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

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Records, Company, Knows

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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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• People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.

  Adam Ant

  People, Three, Records

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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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• The people who run record companies now wouldn't know a song if it flew up their nose and died. They haven't a clue, and they don't care. You tell them that, and they go, Yeah? So, your point is?

  David Crosby

  Running, Song, Flew Up

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• Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big.

  David Crosby

  Running, Records, Lawyer

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• I challenge record companies to show me evidence of a single penny they've lost due to Napster.

  Dave Rowntree

  Challenges, Napster, Records

  "Reanimator". Interviewed with Hamish Mackintosh, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2001.

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

  Pink

  Records, Permission, Found

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• To be on this set today, I feel very blessed for the second chance and for the opportunity, my record company believing in me and everybody here just showing me so much love and support.

  Brandy Norwood

  Believe, Blessed, Opportunity

  "Brandy Readies Human After Four-Years Hiatus: 'I Never Wanna Leave For That Long Again'" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. August 22, 2008.

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• My record company had to beg me to stop filmin' music videos in the projects. No matter what the song was about, I had 'em out there.

  Nas

  Song, Video, Ems

  "FEATURE: Nas, The Genesis". The XXL Magazine Interview, www.xxlmag.com. March 6, 2009.

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• If you're part of a record company, you're a manufactured product. It doesn't mean that you're not talented.

  Kylie Minogue

  Mean, Records, Company

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• A lot of record company people, even though they're our age, want to be perceived as young hip guys, and they're hurting the business.

  John Mellencamp

  Hurt, People, Guy

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• I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Giving, Leave Me Alone, Mind

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• There are no record companies in Waikiki.

  Bruno Mars

  Records, Waikiki, Company

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• 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 get any further, and the heads of each department were changing all the time, so you couldn't have any permanent relationship within the corporation.

  John Lydon

  People, Soul, Records

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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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• 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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• Money don't rule me, record companies don't rule me.

  Link Wray

  Money, Guitar, Records

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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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• I don't hear record companies coming up with any good ideas or suggestions. Historically, if it ain't their idea, it ain't no good, so you got that to contend with.

  Levon Helm

  Ideas, Suggestions, Records

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