Record Labels Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• People will download the music for free and they'll pay for it if they want to give you a compliment. They don't have to pay for it. And the only way the artist can make money was by touring 'cause the record label didn't take that money. Unfortunately now, cause the record company's not making money from the downloads, now they want to take money away from everything.

  Joss Stone

  Artist, People, Giving

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• The big, big record labels have so much control. I think too much control that it actually made their artists scared to not do what they were told and then the music suffers because of that dynamic and now there's the power of the download.

  Joss Stone

  Artist, Thinking, Suffering

  Source: www.cyinterview.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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• I hear some new artists that sound country but the record labels and country radio lean more toward a more rock feel for what gets signed to a label and played on the radio.

  George Jones

  Country, Artist, Rocks

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• I don't have any pressure on myself. I don't have a big record label backing me. I'm doing it all myself.

  Melanie Brown

  Labels, Records, Pressure

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• [Jack Johnson] became a superstar and started his own record label, and then he made and produced my first record, he co-wrote the songs on there, and then he let me open up for him for two years all around the world. And that was like the best start I could've had, the best way I could've started in the music scene.

  Donavon Frankenreiter

  Song, Years, Two

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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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• 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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• 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 was just thinking of Rush. I went to see Rush a few years ago, because my record label guy in the States really wanted to go. We had crazy good seats. It was fascinating watching the crowd - mostly men - who were so moved by these really esoteric lyrics. I don't know Neil Peart's lyrics super well, but they're not that straightforward to me.

  Sarah Harmer

  Crazy, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• If I was rich enough, I would love to launch my own record label. I would love to try and give all my musically talented friends a start in the industry.

  Cara Delevingne

  Giving, Trying, Labels

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

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• I can't wait until the record label feels like it's time for my album to come out, and then just disappear.

  Donnis

  Waiting, Albums, Labels

  "Donnis Talks 'Fashionably Late,' Atlantic Debut & Texting With T.I". Interview with Jordan Martins, www.complex.com. June 24, 2010.

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• I'd done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never thought I'd have a record label.

  Norah Jones

  College, Labels, Done

  "Oprah Talks to Norah Jones". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. July, 2003.

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• When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contract and I had to go to Paris to do it. So I went there and that's how I really got into the music business. But I didn't like what I was doing when I got there, so I left, and I never did a record there.

  Madonna Ciccone

  New York, Paris, Dancer

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I hate how I've had the mantle set on my shoulders as being against the record label. We've had some issues, but that is the nature of business.

  Sheryl Crow

  Hate, Issues, Labels

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• I think I'm a living embodiment of, 'Don't try to push me around or squash me,' whether its how I talk to a record label or in my relationships.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Thinking, Squash, Trying

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• I'm from Israel, so America has no limits. I started a record label, and then I started managing other artists, like Liza Minelli.

  Gene Simmons

  Artist, Israel, America

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 20, 2002.

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• I hate record labels. They think they know everything. I want to hear them try to sing it.

  Jessica Simpson

  Hate, Thinking, Trying

  "Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica". www.imdb.com. 2003 - 2005.

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• I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Labels, Records, Murphy

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• The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed: the major record labels let Apple take over the digital-music business; Blockbuster refused to buy Netflix for a mere fifty million dollars; Excite turned down the chance to acquire Google for less than a million dollars.

  James Surowiecki

  Opportunity, Apples, Google

  "Groupon Clipping". www.newyorker.com. December 20 & 27, 2010.

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• I have hundreds and hundreds of songs waiting to get on albums, but I don't know about the three-month radio tours and if I'll be interested in that. I haven't figured it out, but I will definitely be doing music, whether it is independent or with a major record label.

  Jewel

  Song, Independent, Waiting

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• I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music.

  Taylor Swift

  Writing, Labels, Records

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• A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it.

  Taylor Swift

  School, People, Rejection

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• I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'

  Taylor Swift

  Country, Song, Years

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