Record Companies Quotes - Page 6

• There's the famous thing that the A&R man from the record company is supposed to do: He's supposed to come into the studio and listen to the songs you've been recording and then say, 'Guys, I don't hear any singles.' And then everybody falls into a terrible depression because you have to write one.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Song, Fall, Writing

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• The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

  David Byrne

  Records, Demise, World

  Interview with Anne Pasternak, creativetime.org.

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• Don't give up, be positive and if you know someone who knows someone at a record company don't stop beating down their door till you get heard. Don't ever say it'll never happen or it'll never happen.

  Mary J. Blige

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Doors

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• Those record companies don't know what's happening at all.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Records, Company, Knows

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• I don't think that old-fashioned idea of record companies exists any more.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Thinking, Ideas, Records

  "Question time: Sophie Ellis-Bextor". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2009.

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• It's all false pressure; you put the heat on yourself, you get it from the networks and record companies and movie studios. You put more pressure on yourself to make everything that much harder.

  John Belushi

  Records, Pressure, Heat

  "Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi". Book by Bob Woodward, p. 209, 1984.

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• People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.

  Adam Ant

  People, Three, Records

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• Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live.

  Adam Ant

  Records, Decline, Company

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• Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you're in big trouble if you're borrowing more than you can ever afford to pay back. Delaying the pain for future generations is suicidal. We've got to start getting the deficit down right now, not next year.

  Simon Cowell

  Suicide, Running, Pain

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• The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I'm from. Well, I can't write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation.

  Billy Ray Cyrus

  Song, Inspiration, Writing

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• Between the record companies being the way they are and the fact that people can just download one song instead of buying a whole album, it's hard to make a good living nowadays.

  Dimebag Darrell

  Song, People, Albums

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• It's a battle between record company, between producer and between mastering engineer. Because the louder you make your record in a digital process, the more dynamics are squished out of it. Nobody knows exactly what happens, but the dynamics in the performance disappear, and everything is at the same volume.

  Geddy Lee

  Battle, Records, Dynamics

  "Geddy Lee and Billy Corgan on concept albums, jamming, singing and more". Interview with Joe Bosso, www.musicradar.com. June 25, 2012.

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• I was too shy, I think, to sing publicly. It takes a particular kind of person. And when I was young, I was not that person. In the first instance, when a record company said to me, do you want to try and make your record, my first reaction was, no, I'm not worthy - I couldn't possibly, and so on and so forth.

  Hugh Laurie

  Thinking, Trying, Shy

  "Hugh Laurie Puts Blues In The House". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. August 18, 2013.

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• The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Falling In Love, Records, Rich

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

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• You have record companies that sign acts that they think are great, and then they never do anything. Acts that they don't think are really going to do much end up having a career. I don't think anyone really knows what it is that drives somebody to get on their computer and want to download a song.

  Jason Aldean

  Song, Thinking, Careers

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• I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind.

  Etta James

  Mind, Records, Said

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• [Bananarama] were written off from day one. Nobody believed in us but us. We kept having hits despite the record company, despite the press

  Siobhan Fahey

  Records, Company, Despite

  G3 Magazine, November/ December 2002.

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• The Internet has been a blessing and a curse. The curse we know: A lot of people appropriating your intellectual property without paying for it. But I think it's important to realize the blessing of the Internet, which is that everybody has a voice and you can break through, even without a record company.

  Gloria Estefan

  Blessing, Thinking, Break Through

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• Record companies are not necessarily interested in you realizing your artistic dream. The bottom line is that they got to sell records.

  Mos Def

  Dream, Records, Lines

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• I produce the records. I don't hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record company and then tries to bend me to their will - for commercial purposes.

  Tori Amos

  Hands, Trying, Purpose

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• Record companies would rather you stay dumb, not even think of it as a business, so they can either rip you off or get you out of the way in five years to make way for the new groups.

  George Clinton

  Rip, Thinking, Years

  "George Clinton: 'Even now the music scares us sometimes' - a classic interview from the vaults". NME Interview, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2012.

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• It's like, it's up to the people to fall in love with the song. The record company can only do so much.

  Paul Westerberg

  Song, Falling In Love, People

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• I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film.

  Carson Daly

  Records, Film, Company

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• Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking a trend to death is not contributing to culture and is ultimately not profitable.

  Tony Visconti

  Responsibility, Giving, Culture

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• The people who run record companies now wouldn't know a song if it flew up their nose and died. They haven't a clue, and they don't care. You tell them that, and they go, Yeah? So, your point is?

  David Crosby

  Running, Song, Flew Up

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