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• I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me - and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management. At some point, I need to recharge.

  Blake Shelton

  Deer, Messages, Return

  "Basic Blake". Interview with Lori Berger, www.redbookmag.com. January 17, 2012.

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• Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their music is owned by the record company. But I did mine through a production company.

  Roy Ayers

  Artist, Records, Contracts

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• The only thing the record companies put out now is 'Best of,'

  Elton John

  Records, Company

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• PW spent time with Sigel in a New York recording studio shortly before he went away on his federal gun possession charge. He paged through a book of promotional photos of himself, one of which was shot shortly after 911. It featured him holding a copy of the Bible upright in one palm while the Koran rose from the other the Twin Towers. Some of the record company people, they wouldn't let me put this out, ... They said it would be too controversial. But this picture is saying 'Look, they can stand together. Don't have to be no fight.'

  Beanie Sigel

  New York, Book, Fighting

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• ...I got a call from a record company offering me a contract, I did not want to take it because the Lord had pointed me in the direction of spiritual activity...And then it was disclosed to me that I could do both spiritual and musical work. So for five years I executed that contract, and when it was finished, after I made the album Transfiguration, I didn't make another album until twenty-six years later. This new album, Translinear Light, came out of the pleading and constant appealing from my son Ravi Coltrane: 'Ma, please make a CD.' So I eventually agreed.

  Alice Coltrane

  Music, Spiritual, Son

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• Our first album was a stupid mistake by the record company. They tried to sell us as an alternative act. A big mistake!

  Lauryn Hill

  Mistake, Stupid, Albums

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• Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.

  Gary Wright

  Music, Artist, Records

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• This is business: they don't care about your lyrics;
  The better you sell, the better future for their children.
  Controversy sells, so they support conflict,
  Makes more progress, means more profit.
  An artist gets killed, they say they're 'so sorry,'
  Meanwhile, they tell you the date of his next project.
  What a life...death made them more profit:
  Record companies get paid for your drama.

  Cormega

  Children, Sorry, Drama

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• I think all record companies should be run by a musician. Just as you wouldn't trust your health to an electrician.

  Paul Bley

  Music, Running, Thinking

  "Paul Bley obituary" by Richard Williams, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2016.

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• And looking at today's music scene, I think it's cool that there are a lot of consumers and fans not limited by what radio and the record companies tell them to buy.

  Juice Newton

  Thinking, Fans, Records

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• In those days it was pretty cut and dry. If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road.

  Lou Gramm

  Believe, Cutting, Albums

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• Everybody raps. We rap to make money. We do business. Ain't no other record company out there that sold as many records as we did.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rap, Records, Making Money

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• Oh, you know record companies. . . at the end of the day, it's business. If you analyse it, you're just a piece of meat. The minute you go bad, it's: 'Next!'.

  Enrique Iglesias

  The End Of The Day, Meat, Pieces

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• I would sooner be robbed by a fan than a company. The fan may be broke and have but one choice. There is no excuse for the way the "songwriter" is robbed by everyone from the record company to the broadcaster, by the pure bottom line, greed. If it continues, sadly, in time, the music will suffer. It takes many many years to learn how to write a song properly. Songwriters will be forced to hit the road in order to make a decent living and, in my opinion, these two careers are related but not compatible.

  Mickey Newbury

  Song, Writing, Order

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• The situation is not good with the record companies. It's just not working out, so I don't plan to record until it's straightened out. In the meantime I'm happy doing my movies and writing the music for the theme songs, whether I sing them or not.

  Irene Cara

  Song, Writing, Work Out

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• I've been lucky to be able to make the records I've wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to cut certain songs.

  Lyle Lovett

  Song, Cutting, Lucky

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

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• I never had many problems to do my music and to give it to a record company. Rarely do they try to argue with me about my music, probably because it's still too far-out.

  Klaus Schulze

  Giving, Trying, Records

  Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. May 1997.

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• You also said in Rolling Stone that your look is based on mine. The look I chose, I chose on purpose at a time when my record company were encouraging me to do what you have done. I felt I would rather be judged on my talent and not my looks. I am happy that I made that choice, not least because I do not find myself on the proverbial rag heap now that I am almost 47 yrs of age.. which unfortunately many female artists who have based their image around their sexuality, end up on when they reach middle age.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Artist, Choices, Age

  "Sinéad O'Connor's open letter to Miley Cyrus", www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2013.

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• The record company really pissed me off when they told me to lose weight. I couldn't be bothered with looking a certain way. So I left the business. I don't regret it.

  Kim Wilde

  Regret, Business, Records

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• My dream is to do whatever I want without any interference from the record company.

  Sarah Vaughan

  Music, Dream, Records

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• All we had ever heard about record company people is that they were vampires and criminals...and they killed Elvis Presley.

  Bjork

  People, Vampire, Criminals

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• These record companies are going to be going out of business pretty soon, because people are just going to be downloading what they want to hear.

  Lester Bowie

  People, Going Out, Records

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• I want the new band to work together for a while, and when we're ready we'll invite every major record company to see us.

  Tommy Bolin

  Working Together, Band, Records

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• I don't want a record company, but I need one, unfortunately.

  Melissa Auf der Maur

  Needs, Records, Want

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• About 1990 there was a huge shakeup in the music industry and the 6 major record companies fired all the music people and hired business graduates to take over the spots. So the music became not as important. What really became important was the bottom line, how much money you could make.

  Geoff Tate

  People, Important, Lines

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