Record Companies Quotes - Page 9

• The only thing I have no control over is the politics that goes on within the record company. It's always been the same, but it's far tougher now, because record companies are run by financial people; before, they were run by creative people.

  Enrique Iglesias

  Running, People, Creative

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• And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it's catchy, and you've got a little bit of help, I think that's all you need. But there hasn't been that in music.

  Joan Jett

  Song, Fighting, Thinking

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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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• If you don't have a record deal, you've got to be a record company.

  Mary Gauthier

  Records, Deals, Company

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• Sometimes, you release an album and the record company just about ignores it, and so many people don't even know it's out. And I'm not about to jump up and down shouting, "Hey folks, look at me! I'm cool and groovy!" That's not what George Harrison is all about.

  George Harrison

  People, Albums, Looks

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• I wouldn't say that we're proactively out there hunting down brands to try to fulfill some piece of a larger battle plan or something. If they have things they want to get to us, we're somewhat easily accessible through our managers and record companies.

  Lars Ulrich

  Hunting, Battle, Trying

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• I heard a quote once in a documentary about a band that said you're better off owning everything 100 percent and selling 20,000 copies of an album than signing with a record company and selling a million copies. There has never been a truer statement about show business than that.

  Bill Burr

  Documentaries, Albums, Band

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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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• Concerning iTunes, the deals have mainly been done with the record companies. But the artists, with some exceptions, haven't been very well-represented. This is partly because the record companies have largely been copyright owners.

  Peter Gabriel

  Artist, Done, Records

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• But I did mine through a production company. All the music I did, I gave to the production company. Then the production company would give the record company the album. I used to do all my albums like that. It was fantastic. But now, understand, I have never planned to do anything with these other tapes. The one that are released, like the Virgin Ubiquity you have there, I wasn't going to do anything with that music. One day, I was talking to this guy that owns BBE over in England, and I said I've got some tapes and stuff that you might be interested in, and he went berserk.

  Roy Ayers

  Talking, Ubiquity, Giving

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• When I do an album I try to find a producer that's excited about something that they want me to sing, and I check with the record company to find out what they think they can sell - which is their No. 1 priority.

  Johnny Mathis

  Thinking, Priorities, Trying

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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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