Record Companies Quotes - Page 5

• When a record company makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When a manager makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When the artist makes a mistake, the artist pays for it.

  Robert Fripp

  Mistake, Artist, Records

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• The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio.

  Ken Auletta

  Book, Digital Revolution, Media

  "Can Aereo Disrupt the TV Business?" by Ken Auletta, www.newyorker.com. February 18, 2013.

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• Every time I release an album my old record company releases another one.

  Bonnie Tyler

  Albums, Records, Release

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

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• The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.

  Charley Pride

  Country, Fans, Moguls

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• Record companies, I found out, can put out compilations without your permission.

  Pink

  Records, Permission, Found

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• To be on this set today, I feel very blessed for the second chance and for the opportunity, my record company believing in me and everybody here just showing me so much love and support.

  Brandy Norwood

  Believe, Blessed, Opportunity

  "Brandy Readies Human After Four-Years Hiatus: 'I Never Wanna Leave For That Long Again'" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. August 22, 2008.

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• My record company had to beg me to stop filmin' music videos in the projects. No matter what the song was about, I had 'em out there.

  Nas

  Song, Video, Ems

  "FEATURE: Nas, The Genesis". The XXL Magazine Interview, www.xxlmag.com. March 6, 2009.

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• If you're part of a record company, you're a manufactured product. It doesn't mean that you're not talented.

  Kylie Minogue

  Mean, Records, Company

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• A lot of record company people, even though they're our age, want to be perceived as young hip guys, and they're hurting the business.

  John Mellencamp

  Hurt, People, Guy

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• I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Giving, Leave Me Alone, Mind

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• There are no record companies in Waikiki.

  Bruno Mars

  Records, Waikiki, Company

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• There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.

  Prince

  Artist, Law, Records

  "Prince Wants Cover Songs Outlawed: What's the Best Cover Song of All Time?". www.foxnews.com. April 26, 2011.

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• It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it.

  Helen Reddy

  Bad Years, America, Long

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• My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music.

  Helen Reddy

  Baby, People, Being Ignored

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• You could have a zillion Facebook followers. Those people don't buy records. It's about a hundred to one...Record companies, they don't have any money so they see social media as the free marketing...So,...'Billy, light yourself on fire and stand upside down, and that'll market the record'. I've spent a lot of time thinking about this. I don't think people by records because of anything that happens on Facebook. They buy records cause they're friends say 'I bought this record and I love it'.

  Billy Corgan

  Thinking, Fire, Light

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• I told the record company I didn't feel the need to be at red-carpet events. I wanted a career. But I wanted to keep myself intact as a person.

  Enya

  Careers, Red Lipstick, Events

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

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• I think record companies are criminals.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Thinking, Records, Rock N Roll

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• Having a record company and putting out my own CD. There's clothes and shoes. There's also an upcoming book deal that I'm trying to do. I'm trying to be positive. I'm a big fan of the Nobel Peace Prize.

  Metta World Peace

  Sports, Book, Clothes

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• When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record shop? But I think we all agree that radio stations are good stuff.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Music, Thinking, People

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• This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

  Robert Wyatt

  Records, Pressure, Come Up

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• The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.

  Paul Simon

  Records, Way, Company

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• Everything about my life was culturally rich, and all the people I met sort of reinforced the wackiness that was normally inside of me. No one said, 'You can't do that,' until I got to real record companies, that is.

  Nile Rodgers

  Real, People, Records

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• A record company used to be a very good thing, but they ended up soul-destroyingly trapping people in the accounting department. And you couldn't get any further, and the heads of each department were changing all the time, so you couldn't have any permanent relationship within the corporation.

  John Lydon

  People, Soul, Records

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• The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.

  John Lydon

  Records, Nonsense, Contracts

  "John Lydon boosts his Public Image with new album". Interview With Iain Blair, www.reuters.com. May 25, 2012.

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• We've managed to have a long career that is still quite vibrant, yet we've never had to kow-tow to record companies who said we weren't commercial enough.

  Alex Lifeson

  Careers, Long, Records

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