Record Companies Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film.

  Carson Daly

  Records, Film, Company

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• The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio.

  Ken Auletta

  Book, Digital Revolution, Media

  "Can Aereo Disrupt the TV Business?" by Ken Auletta, www.newyorker.com. February 18, 2013.

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• Who wanna be next? While you a dead superstar, the record company still cashin' checks.

  Master P

  Art, Media, Records

  Song: Always Come Back To You, Album: Ghetto Postage, 2000

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• When certain bootleg companies started off and they would take maybe ten per cent of whatever they got and help fuel new bands, which I'm cool with, I think that's a good idea. Most of the record companies are not doing that.

  David Coverdale

  Thinking, Ideas, Band

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• Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart.

  Leif Garrett

  Heart, Records, Company

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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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• Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasn't it would be some kind of failure.

  Roland Gift

  Feelings, Would Be, Records

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• I suddenly realized that in order to do what I wanted to do, I had to become that which I hated - which is the head of a record company or a digital media conglomerate - and just do whatever you want.

  Dhani Harrison

  Media, Order, Digital

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

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• The music business has changed incredibly. There used to be 50 record companies. Now there's only three, and it's just getting smaller and smaller. But then again, you have the Internet, so anybody who has music can get it out there.

  Joey McIntyre

  Records, Three, Internet

  "New Kids on the Block take fans back". Interview with Shanon Cook, edition.cnn.com. April 1, 2009.

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• It's always push and pull with a record company.

  Mike McCready

  Records, Company

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• I'm pushing ahead on my own - you no longer need a large record company to make you a star.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Stars, Needs, Records

  "Peace Go With You, Brother: Meshell Ndegeocello Pays Tribute To Gil Scott-Heron", www.huffingtonpost.com. August 5, 2011.

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• I had always thought of starting my own record company. I haven't regretted the decision - yet!

  Julian Lennon

  Decision, Records, Starting

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

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• You're starting to see new record companies and business models taking shape, but it takes time.

  Simon Le Bon

  Records, Shapes, Starting

  Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 23, 2010.

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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 certainly have gotten caught up in the music business at various times in my life, mostly because you want to get along with whatever record company you're dealing with. I don't want to be flaky. I don't want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician.

  Black Francis

  Musician, Records, Want

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 23, 1998.

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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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• It's not like it used to be where everybody has a record company to belong to.

  Edwin Starr

  Records, Used, Company

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• I've tried to stay true, in my own fashion, to the ideas of The Sex Pistols, even while I was working with bands like Duran Duran or the Stones, whoever it might be. The thing that was attractive to me personally about videos in the beginning was that it was uncharted territory, and in a sense the record companies didn't know what they were doing.

  Julien Temple

  Fashion, Sex, Ideas

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If I had to spend equal time doing paintings, and equal time going to galleries and doing art business, and equal time making music, and equal time going to record companies, or to the publicist or to the lawyer, forget it. It would take four times as long to do all that stuff. Unless I had a patron. That's why Leonardo da Vinci was successful. He had the Medicis, right?

  Debbie Harry

  Art, Successful, Long

  "The Survivors: Debbie Harry". GQ Interview, www.gq.com. November 4, 2011.

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• I learned how difficult it is to be an artist. There are always compromises. The record company wants you to do this, your fans want you to do this, your family, you can't concentrate on your work. It's a hard thing to be an artist and not give up. That's why I have so much respect for people like Dylan and Neil Young and Tom Waits, because they keep at it. I have a new respect for a true artist.

  Robert Hilburn

  Giving Up, Artist, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I was always told that I was too strange or that I was too cheesy by different groups of people, like the record companies said I was way too weird and the indie people wouldn't even let me in their band.

  Mika

  People, Cheesy, Way

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• I was going to study at the Sorbonne and become a diplomat. Being a diplomat comes in handy when you are dealing with record companies.

  Gloria Estefan

  College, Records, Diplomats

  "Wake Up with Whoopi", October 13, 2006.

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• Obviously, it's designed by record company executives who want a cheap success, and they don't want to give money to anybody and they don't want to give contracts, so they've created this world of very bubbly teenagers who want to be "idols" and they think all they have to do is mime quite well and they've made it. ... But it's not the problem of the kids, it's the problem of the record companies, because it's just an inexpensive way for them to have so-called, I won't say "artists", but erm...You're nodding, you know what I mean.

  Steven Morrissey

  Teenager, Kids, Mean

  Radio Interview with Janice Long, 2002.

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