Record Labels Quotes - Page 3

• My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time.

  Rosanne Cash

  Artist, Labels, Records

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• All I want to do is give the world my heart... Record label tryina make me compromise my art.

  Erykah Badu

  Art, Giving, Labels

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• On everything I do I'm always taking someone's money, whether it's a movie studio or a record label. Somebody's paying for it, and I'm always respectful of that. But I'm never going to compromise.

  Spike Jonze

  Labels, Records, Compromise

  "Spike Jonze: 'I'm never going to compromise'". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2009.

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• In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that.

  Dave Van Ronk

  Labels, Records, Rooms

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• I entered a songwriting competition, I didn't win, and one of the judges on the panel was an A&R man at a record label that had no other acts and I signed to them. We sent my demo out to five people and David Kahne got back to me that day, and said I think you're amazing I want to start with you tomorrow. He was like my Harvard reach school, I couldn't believe it. I was really excited. It was the first time anyone of any importance said I was good and I ran with that validation for a long time.

  Lana Del Rey

  Believe, School, Thinking

  "Ice Breaker: Lana Del Rey". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. October 6, 2011.

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• In a sense, the music business and I haven't always been the best of bedfellows. Artists often have to fight their corner. Your music goes through these filters of record labels and media, and you're hoping you'll find someone who'll help you get your work into the world.

  Annie Lennox

  Fighting, Artist, Media

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• I don't get a lot of big offers. Never have in my career. For some reason, record labels don't call me, famous bands don't call me, only kids in rock bands. I don't know why, and I don't worry about it. I would worry about it if I wasn't working, if I was unemployed.

  Gordon Raphael

  Kids, Careers, Rocks

  Source: www.indieberlin.de

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• My record label, which is a huge record label who represents massive, massive stars - they've never done anything like this before, and they were so excited about this idea of an animated character which is singing legitimate music. It's not a comedy record, it's a legitimate record. And they really jumped on board. So, we've got our Facebook page up, we'll be jumping on Twitter very soon, and sort of be creating Haley outside of American Dad.

  Rachael MacFarlane

  Stars, Dad, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• Every time I meet the CEO of a record label I tell them how they did it in the seventies because they want to know. I tell them, "Sign a hundred people! Throw it against the wall and see which ones stick!" And they frown and say, "Oh, we can't do that!" and they start mumbling about demographics and this and that.

  Tony Visconti

  Wall, People, Labels

  "Sound & Vision: Tony Visconti". Interview with Allyson Mccabe, therumpus.net. January 4, 2016.

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• The band has always been such a huge part of my life and it kept me very busy. That, in combination with something like running a record label, just means my whole life revolves completely around metal music and I can't do that anymore.

  Blake Judd

  Running, Mean, Labels

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Fans decide what pop culture is. We can define ourselves. Music and the presentation of art nowadays is totally in our control, with the Internet specifically. You no longer need record labels. You no longer need movie distribution companies. You can just make it and put it online, and it will distribute itself to millions of people. The borders and everything have been broken down. It really is in the hands of the people.

  Laura Jane Grace

  Art, Hands, People

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• I've started a little independent record label called 'Six String Productions' and recorded a couple of tunes, and I hope to do some more with some future artists next year. It's a real passion project of mine.

  Tom Felton

  Couple, Real, Independent

  "Tom Felton Interview HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS – PART 1; Plus an Update on RISE OF THE APES". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 22, 2010.

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• However, the radio and national media depend much more on the hype from a good record label, and from a " buzz " about a band, then from just one or two good shows. There are a lot of artists that have a ton of good press going for them, and still do not make it big in the US.

  Pat Garrett

  Artist, Media, Two

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• I think it's because we're not purists, we're open to all kinds of music. We're not afraid to take chances and we work really hard, and we gig relentlessly, we've been very active in the studio, we're active with the record labels that we have. So I think it's like a full-on assault. We've stalled in many different directions and it kept us in the limelight for so many years.

  Ali Shirazinia

  Thinking, Years, Different

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• We have signed with Artemis Records. Originally they were our distributor for 'Group Therapy'. My former manager (Chip Quigley) started a record label (Recon Records) and had Artemis Records as their distributor. Unfortunately, the way the label was run meant that it didn't turn out the way that we thought it was going to be. We simply got into something that was different to what we initially thought

  Brian Ebejer

  Running, Way, Groups

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• Kaputt was just a record that did really well for us, and therefore our record label and our booking agent said that we should go out and take our message to the world.

  Dan Bejar

  Labels, Records, Agents

  "Destroyer. Pornographer. Bejar". Interview With Phil Runco, brightestyoungthings.com. June 12, 2012.

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• The fact of the matter is, if you're not putting out stuff that people are feeling, then your record label doesn't mean a goddamn thing.

  El-P

  Mean, People, Feelings

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I first started out in the music industry and went to Elektra Records, I didn't go to be an artist, I went to get a record label started. And they said in order to have a label deal, I had to be an artist - so that's what I did.

  Missy Elliot

  Artist, Order, Labels

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Willow [Smith] started making music first. I was like, "My younger sister is, like, 4, and she's making all these fire songs. What's happening?" Willow was doing all these things, about to have record label deals at like the age of 6, and I was like, "I feel like I'm underachieving."

  Jaden Smith

  Song, Fire, Age

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• I just got a chance to see strong tenacity and a desire to be on top from some young women who have never seen six, seven women signed at a time to major record labels. But they believe that they can put their footprint in hip hop in a major way.

  MC Lyte

  Strong, Believe, Hip Hop

  Source: uproxx.com

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• For me, I guess, just learning that just because there's not a whole lot of female MCs on the front lines being supported by major record labels doesn't mean they don't exist. It doesn't mean they don't have the drive and the competitive nature and the will and the way.

  MC Lyte

  Mean, Female, Labels

  "MC Lyte’s Current Mission Is To Educate The Next Generation Of Hip-Hop Leaders". Blogarama Interview, www.blogarama.com. August 23, 2016.

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• Record labels have enjoyed a 100-year monopoly of selling plastic and now they're up against a different format.

  Ian MacKaye

  Years, Records, Different

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I think record cover sleeves really led towards, but at the same time the album as we know it didn't come into being until mainly after the Second World War because record labels realized they'd be able to make a lot more money putting all the singles of an artist onto one album and selling the whole album as a kind of a concept.

  DJ Spooky

  War, Artist, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• And the next album I do is going to be different because I'm going to change. I already did that thing where I had a band - and I had a great time with a band - but it was almost like pandering to get a record label deal.

  Laura Bell Bundy

  Different, Albums, Labels

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I consider us to be one of the first Internet-based bands, especially because we basically started our entire band via the Internet. Before MySpace Music even existed, we had a band MySpace page. We were one of the first fifty bands on PureVolume(.com), and we really built everything from the Internet. That's how we started talking to record labels, that's how we booked our first tours. Without the Internet social networking, like Twitter, we definitely wouldn't be where we are today. It is a huge part of the band.

  Jack Barakat

  Talking, Networking, Labels

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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