Labels Quotes - Page 40

• There's a very distinct difference between a really wonderful DIY label and a soft drink company, or a car company, or a clothing brand, and you will always understand that difference.

  Alan Palomo

  Differences, Car, Soft Drinks

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It is cool to have a label head that is also a songwriter, in a band, and produces records.

  Rivers Cuomo

  Band, Records, Produce

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Major labels just lost their way. It's like the housing bubble. They lost a sense of the fundamentals.

  Win Butler

  Fundamentals, Way, Lost

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Bands are more willing to take risks and we don't need this big label over us anymore telling us what it means to sell records and get into magazines.

  Mat McNerney

  Mean, Risk, Needs

  "Show No Mercy". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 17, 2009.

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• I just wanted to make music, and grime wasn't exactly the path that I took naturally. It was something that was put on me as a label.

  Lady Sovereign

  Path, Grime, Wanted

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• At the time, in 1996, an electronic band signing with a major label was something new, at least in France. Daft Punk knew that this meant a marathon of promotion, TV appearances, etc. To protect themselves and to be discrete, they came up with the masks and, three years later, the robot helmets.

  Pedro Winter

  Years, Band, France

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There are some things that you have to consider when using MySpace, and a lot of big labels don't do this.

  Pedro Winter

  Bigs

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The nice thing about working for a label like Domino is that there's no pressure: They've got a roster of 40 active bands, and they can bang out an album or single in a week, so it's not the end of the world to not have a Max Tundra album in 2005.

  Max Tundra

  Nice, Albums, Max

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If it's a good record or a good recording, then word of mouth will build for that reason, not before the fact, not before anyone's heard it, not because of MySpace or the label.

  Spencer Krug

  Facts, Records, Mouths

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Sometimes I forget that the label's been around so long that some of the bands they're singing now might be influenced by the first wave of Sub Pop bands. Is there anyone on that label that you look up to or borrow from?

  Hutch Harris

  Long, Singing, Looks

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• At the end of the day, Fool's Gold is a label that, when I hear something I like, I try to grab it for the label. There's a ton of great music coming out.

  A-Trak

  The End Of The Day, Trying, Gold

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I'm still a hip-hop producer. I never put a label on what I can do as a producer or a DJ.

  A-Trak

  Hip Hop, Hips, Hops

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I think that's becoming the key to where the whole idea of art and culture are going nowadays anyway, is the idea of curation. Knowing what you like. That's sort of the future right now. Molding something, whether it be a roster on a label, or your blog, or a song, or your DJ set.

  A-Trak

  Song, Art, Thinking

  Source: www.gq.com

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• We have to wake up early and make songs everyday. I run my record label. You work at hours where your body isn't designed to work. But it's fun.

  A-Trak

  Running, Song, Fun

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Comics are actually dubbed by euphemistic label of graphic novel, which became a big deal.

  Francoise Mouly

  Bigs, Graphic Novels, Deals

  "A Brief History of Comics". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.

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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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• When people warn me about someone - the label head or the publishing head - that somebody is difficult, I'm in heaven.

  Carol Friedman

  People, Heaven, Difficult

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 21, 2010.

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• I was fortunate enough to have gone through the major label process and kind of have the inside scoop on some things, some information I wouldn't have normally had. To go from a major to an independent, I don't think it's an easy transition.

  Joe Budden

  Independent, Thinking, Gone

  Source: djbooth.net

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• Technology being the way it is, and record sales being the way it is, there are not too many things that you need to depend on a label for that you can't go out and do yourself.

  Joe Budden

  Technology, Records, Way

  Source: djbooth.net

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• I think Def Jam happened to be one of the labels that really didn't have a good grip on things that were going on. I'll say that - that's my political answer.

  Joe Budden

  Thinking, Political, Jam

  Source: djbooth.net

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• When you're young and you're comin' up, and you dream of gettin' this record deal, and then you actually get it, and, you know, its apples and oranges from everything that you pictured. The line was pretty self-explanatory to me: once I got in my major label agreement, I definitely couldn't deal with it. It was drivin' me crazy, givin' me gray hairs at an early age.

  Joe Budden

  Dream, Crazy, Apples

  Source: djbooth.net

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• Times are completely different now. If you're a brand new artist with a record you want to release to the masses, I would suggest you try and get it hot yourself first. This way you can create your own demand so you'll end up having the option of demanding what you want if you do decide to sign with a label. If you don't and you still get on hot on your own, you then have the ability to reap all of your profits.

  Ashanti

  Artist, Trying, Hot

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As a new artist there are so many new ways to put music out there where you don't necessarily need a label because now labels will have their hands in your pocket and leave you with less control.

  Ashanti

  Artist, Hands, Pockets

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Labels are going to tie you down with a 360 deal, they take percentages of literally every endeavor you're tied to. It's a lot of stipulations and constraints placed on you. What makes it worse is that, in terms of distributing budgets, labels aren't even giving the same amount as they used to. It totally defeats the purpose. My advice would be to get it out there on your own first which will lead you to calling the shots.

  Ashanti

  Ties, Giving, Advice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've been offered things from alot of different labels and stuff like that, but it's just like, it has to be perfect. I'm not going to sign my life away.

  Jhene Aiko

  Perfect, Different, Stuff

  Source: earstyle.net

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