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• Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame.

  Marian McPartland

  Thinking, Records, Stuff

  "Marian McPartland At 86". Interview with Lazaro Vega, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 22, 2004.

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• I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen.

  John Sebastian

  Song, Style, Trying

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• I see myself as the buffer between the band and the record company.

  Jerry Harrison

  Band, Records, Company

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• I don't relate to what's left of the music business. There doesn't seem to be any point to it anymore. The business that I grew up in and loved, we made records a different way - there were record companies, there were stores where you could buy albums.

  Don McLean

  Different, Albums, Records

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• I always say this to people: 'If Shaq can be in the NBA for 19 years and dominate for 19 years using his body, why can't I be in the music industry for 50 years using my brain when my brain is way stronger than anyone's body?' I have to have a successful record company, more hit records. I want to dominate the game.

  Rico Love

  Successful, Years, Nba

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• I think everyone should sell whatever product they want to sell for whatever price they want to sell it for, but ultimately the market will dictate what it is and people will have to charge less money for everything. Record companies have been overcharging people for way too long and now this is the trouble that they're in.

  Black Francis

  Thinking, Long, People

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• The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups.

  Norman Granz

  Rocks, Groups, Records

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

  Link Wray

  Money, Guitar, Records

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• A lot of people that buy vinyl today don’t realise that they’re listening to CD masters on vinyl and that’s because the record companies have figured out that people want vinyl, And they're only making CD masters in digital, so all the new products that come out on vinyl are actually CDs on vinyl, which is really nothing but a fashion statement.

  Neil Young

  Fashion, Cds, People

  "Neil Young dismisses vinyl revival as a 'fashion statement'", www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2015.

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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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• Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking a trend to death is not contributing to culture and is ultimately not profitable.

  Tony Visconti

  Responsibility, Giving, Culture

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• It's like, it's up to the people to fall in love with the song. The record company can only do so much.

  Paul Westerberg

  Song, Falling In Love, People

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• Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music. So given those things yes, I'm introducing some new music that people haven't really heard me do in quite this fashion.

  Al Jarreau

  Fashion, People, Records

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• I've been wanting to sing for a long time. I've been singing all my life, and I've tried different record companies, but it seemed like - it was such a struggle and so hard to get out there. So, I said, 'I'm gonna go on American Idol and see how far it takes me.'

  Fantasia Barrino

  Struggle, Idols, Long

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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 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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• 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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• Mostly I've never let record companies become involved with my music, which was a very smart thing that my first manager Dave Robinson did, to keep them out of it.

  Graham Parker

  Smart, Records, Firsts

  "Graham Parker on reuniting with The Rumour, constructing the flow of an album, and more". Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 27, 2012.

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• I don't know what they're thinking about. Just because someone says, 'I like what you do' or something: They might like it today and tomorrow they might not. I've had that experience with record companies.

  Ornette Coleman

  Thinking, Records, Might

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• I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fired, and I'd be left with the record company. And then - because they got fired - the record company wouldn't do anything for me.

  Ornette Coleman

  Records, Company, Executives

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• Most of my relationships have been like that - with record companies. I've never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. I've always had a personal relationship with someone in the company.

  Ornette Coleman

  Records, Business Relationship, Company

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• If you come from Africa with your economic poverty and your cultural riches, and you meet someone like Peter Gabriel or a person from a big record company, and they tell you that what you are doing is marvelous, that makes you feel powerful.

  Youssou N'Dour

  Powerful, Gabriel, Records

  "A song and a prayer" by Mark Hudson, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2004.

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• Western record companies haven't always dealt with African musicians in the best way. Giving them a lot of money and telling them they're going to be bigger than Phil Collins is the wrong way to do it!

  Youssou N'Dour

  Giving, Musician, Records

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• 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, I'd have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do.

  Solomon Burke

  Needs, Records, Enough

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• Record companies would rather you stay dumb, not even think of it as a business, so they can either rip you off or get you out of the way in five years to make way for the new groups.

  George Clinton

  Rip, Thinking, Years

  "George Clinton: 'Even now the music scares us sometimes' - a classic interview from the vaults". NME Interview, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2012.

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