Record Companies Quotes - Page 7

• We never let go. Ever. Even with punctuation. It's frightening. I can't see anyone from any record company ever writing an email to Neil and not getting it back, with corrections.

  Chris Lowe

  Letting Go, Writing, Scary

  "The Pet Shop Boys' Commandments". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2003.

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• I thought I'd be wasting my time to go to commercial record companies and make demos for them, because don't forget, I was doing what I was doing and nobody understood what I was doing.

  John Fahey

  Records, Forget, Wasting My Time

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• I don't get particularly precious about things like this, though. Like the record company said, "We need a radio edit that delivers the hook" - I don't even know what they consider the hook in that song ["Oh No"] - "that delivers the hook sooner." So I'm like, "Okay. I see that." And they were all walking on eggshells, like is this going to be sacrilegious to me or something, to mess with this art I've created? And I'm like, "Great. I get to tinker with it, I get to mess with my song some more."

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Art, Needs

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• I think the consumption of music is at an all-time high. But I think the ways that record companies are trying to monetize it is just all over the place. At the end of the day, music is in the clouds. Before, you could hold it, look at it, turn it around. Now, it's just in the air.

  Jay-Z

  Thinking, Clouds, Air

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 11, 2010.

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• You don't have to wait for a record company to tell you that you're good or to sign you. You can put your music out on itunes, youtube, soundcloud, so it's kind of a plus, I think.

  Shanice

  Thinking, Waiting, Records

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• When a record company makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When a manager makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When the artist makes a mistake, the artist pays for it.

  Robert Fripp

  Mistake, Artist, Records

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• If you get rid of a lot of the poseurs by destroying record companies, maybe it's a good trade-off.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Records, Destroying, Trade

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Everybody can perform, there are so many outlets. Musicians are no longer limited. In the past, the record companies made most of the money. I for one am not sorry to see them fade away.

  Jake Holmes

  Sorry, Past, Musician

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• I've been in fortunate position of never really having to battle with my record company to do the things I wanted to do in the studio.

  Jonny Lang

  Battle, Records, Company

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• What was great about the 80s was that you still had record companies who would get behind developing you as an artist. You had these bonkers heads of department and A&R people who, even after a flop album, would let you make another one.

  Marc Almond

  Artist, People, Albums

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I have tons of tunes, maybe 30 tunes that I still think are great, and only because some jerk at a record company didn't think it was great, it's not out there.

  Terry Bozzio

  Thinking, Tunes, Records

  Source: beintheloopchicago.com

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• The internet seems to be what a lot of independent bands are doing these days. They're bypassing the studio - the big studios, EMI and all the record companies - and just doing it themselves, online, selling their stuff, getting known through that medium.

  David Gilmour

  Independent, Band, Records

  Source: www.pinkfloydz.com

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• The old ways still apply. You can still send tapes to record companies, and there are record companies, you know, there are one or two of the record companies do declare proudly that they listen to every single one that comes.

  David Gilmour

  Two, Tape, Records

  Source: www.pinkfloydz.com

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• As crises came up later on - "Oh, we have to compromise, and the record company wants to do this," I'd be like, "No, I don't have to."

  Neil Peart

  Records, Want, Compromise

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• One of the central flaws in the state of contemporary music is that the major record companies have failed to incorporate that simple fact into their business plans. They've come into an industry that's based on idiosyncratic artists and tried to erase every idiosyncratic aspect out of it.

  Moby

  Artist, Simple, Records

  "David Bowie EW Cover: Inside David Bowie and Moby's out-of-this-world 2002 tour". Interview with Jeff Gordinier, ew.com. January 11, 2016.

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• It wasn't that we were afraid of the Church or the Vatican. The record company thought people might find the title offensive. They asked me if I would change ["A Deal with God"].

  Kate Bush

  People, Church, Might

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Albums aren't even selling anymore and there's a reason for that. Record companies are just signing single and ring tone deals and it doesn't seem like they're focusing on albums.

  Rahki

  Albums, Records, Tone

  Interview with Brian Hughes Kasoro, www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2011.

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• In reality, there's a limit to putting a record out yourself. When it comes to working with major record companies in the context of them owning anything, though, that will never happen. Ever. In my life.

  Kevin Shields

  Reality, Records, Limits

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I have my own record company. I have to answer to God, basically. I'm not young, so I want to make the best possible work I can before I exit.

  Michael Gira

  Records, Answers, Want

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Make a record in your bedroom on a cheap computer, play it on pirate radio, and that's what's it's all about. You can do something really exciting and you don't need any record companies. The way I do everything comes from that, the impact of those two things.

  Kieran Hebden

  Two, Impact, Play

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I gave away the money advanced from my record company on my first album, I'm the type of person who likes to give. I gave to my sister. She has four little babies and bought an old house and it needed repairs.

  Jo Dee Messina

  Baby, Giving, House

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• I certainly never doubted the ability for the guys to get together and make good music, but there was so much legal business with the record company that it ended up being like five albatrosses around our neck.

  John Bush

  Guy, Together, Necks

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• Some record labels want to package you in a certain way and we didn't want that. Once the record company saw we had some substance and were not a one hit wonder. They got 100% behind us.

  Christian Burns

  Labels, Substance, Records

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• That was an idea of the record company, and also that was my first album after MCA and we wanted to come back with a strong album that would be noticed. If we put the vocals by very talented people and very meaningful songs, then the vocals would be a platform so that I could be noticed again. All of the MCA albums were just loaded with problems -- you know, the right musicians, the engineers. The record company would say 'You have to make music for black radio, you can't do what you have been doing with The Crusaders.' Everybody was telling me that was over, finished, done.

  Joe Sample

  Meaningful, Song, Strong

  Interview with Pete Fogel, steelydanreader.com. October 1992.

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• They wanted to 'radiofy' what I was doing. I was also in a position where I was compromised. I was much younger and maybe it is because I am Irish but there was a guilt factor when the record company pays you a lot of money, you feel obliged.

  Damien Rice

  Guilt, Records, Pay

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