Record Companies Quotes - Page 2

• The music pot is broad. It's just unfortunate that the record companies cry the blues as frequently as they do.

  Vance Gilbert

  Records, Cry, Pot

  Source: www.minor7th.com

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• Being sued by your own record company, that's even better than receiving a Grammy

  Neil Young

  Funny, Humor, Receiving

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• Rock 'n' roll started to make so much money and generated so much income for the record companies that suddenly it was no longer evil.

  John Landis

  Rocks, Evil, Income

  Source: collider.com

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• What record companies do these days is drain the blood dry of an album, take six singles off it, and harm the longevity of artists' careers by doing it.

  Elton John

  Artist, Blood, Careers

  "Mylo: Would you ever play Glastonbury? Elton: Oh no - I'm too like the Queen Mother". Interview with Myles 'Mylo' MacInnes, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2005.

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• I would love to show my clevage and more body parts off but my record company won't let me.

  Britney Spears

  Records, Body, Let Me

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• I joke that I've never been burdened by having an actual hit. There's something to that. My records have sold enough to make the record company money to help me keep my job. But I've never had anything so firmly ingrained in the mind of the public that I'm expected to repeat it.

  Lyle Lovett

  Jobs, Mind, Records

  "Lyle Lovett: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 23, 2012.

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• You're starting to see new record companies and business models taking shape, but it takes time.

  Simon Le Bon

  Records, Shapes, Starting

  Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 23, 2010.

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• I had always thought of starting my own record company. I haven't regretted the decision - yet!

  Julian Lennon

  Decision, Records, Starting

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

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• I'm pushing ahead on my own - you no longer need a large record company to make you a star.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Stars, Needs, Records

  "Peace Go With You, Brother: Meshell Ndegeocello Pays Tribute To Gil Scott-Heron", www.huffingtonpost.com. August 5, 2011.

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• It's always push and pull with a record company.

  Mike McCready

  Records, Company

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• The music business has changed incredibly. There used to be 50 record companies. Now there's only three, and it's just getting smaller and smaller. But then again, you have the Internet, so anybody who has music can get it out there.

  Joey McIntyre

  Records, Three, Internet

  "New Kids on the Block take fans back". Interview with Shanon Cook, edition.cnn.com. April 1, 2009.

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• I suddenly realized that in order to do what I wanted to do, I had to become that which I hated - which is the head of a record company or a digital media conglomerate - and just do whatever you want.

  Dhani Harrison

  Media, Order, Digital

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

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• Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasn't it would be some kind of failure.

  Roland Gift

  Feelings, Would Be, Records

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• The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups.

  Norman Granz

  Rocks, Groups, Records

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• Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart.

  Leif Garrett

  Heart, Records, Company

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• When certain bootleg companies started off and they would take maybe ten per cent of whatever they got and help fuel new bands, which I'm cool with, I think that's a good idea. Most of the record companies are not doing that.

  David Coverdale

  Thinking, Ideas, Band

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• I don't relate to what's left of the music business. There doesn't seem to be any point to it anymore. The business that I grew up in and loved, we made records a different way - there were record companies, there were stores where you could buy albums.

  Don McLean

  Different, Albums, Records

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• I always say this to people: 'If Shaq can be in the NBA for 19 years and dominate for 19 years using his body, why can't I be in the music industry for 50 years using my brain when my brain is way stronger than anyone's body?' I have to have a successful record company, more hit records. I want to dominate the game.

  Rico Love

  Successful, Years, Nba

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• I certainly have gotten caught up in the music business at various times in my life, mostly because you want to get along with whatever record company you're dealing with. I don't want to be flaky. I don't want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician.

  Black Francis

  Musician, Records, Want

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 23, 1998.

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• Everybody's career is different. In this new age of being able to talk to the whole world at once, the possibilities are staggering, really, to be able to do things yourself. But I've always enjoyed my relationship with the record company.

  Lyle Lovett

  Careers, Age, Different

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• I think bands will actually make more money without record companies; a much bigger share of the money will go to the bands. You won't have record shops taking 40 percent of the money. You won't have record labels taking 40 percent of the money. So they don't have to sell as many albums as they used to in the past. So it's not necessarily a bad thing if record companies disappear.

  Richard Branson

  Past, Thinking, Albums

  "Living Fully and Doing Business Differently With Richard Branson". Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 25, 2014.

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• Obviously, it's designed by record company executives who want a cheap success, and they don't want to give money to anybody and they don't want to give contracts, so they've created this world of very bubbly teenagers who want to be "idols" and they think all they have to do is mime quite well and they've made it. ... But it's not the problem of the kids, it's the problem of the record companies, because it's just an inexpensive way for them to have so-called, I won't say "artists", but erm...You're nodding, you know what I mean.

  Steven Morrissey

  Teenager, Kids, Mean

  Radio Interview with Janice Long, 2002.

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• I was going to study at the Sorbonne and become a diplomat. Being a diplomat comes in handy when you are dealing with record companies.

  Gloria Estefan

  College, Records, Diplomats

  "Wake Up with Whoopi", October 13, 2006.

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• I was always told that I was too strange or that I was too cheesy by different groups of people, like the record companies said I was way too weird and the indie people wouldn't even let me in their band.

  Mika

  People, Cheesy, Way

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• I learned how difficult it is to be an artist. There are always compromises. The record company wants you to do this, your fans want you to do this, your family, you can't concentrate on your work. It's a hard thing to be an artist and not give up. That's why I have so much respect for people like Dylan and Neil Young and Tom Waits, because they keep at it. I have a new respect for a true artist.

  Robert Hilburn

  Giving Up, Artist, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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