Record Labels Quotes - Page 3

• I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.

  Gavin Bryars

  Technology, Europe, Cds

  Klassiknet Interview, www.culturekiosque.com.

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• In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that.

  Dave Van Ronk

  Labels, Records, Rooms

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• On everything I do I'm always taking someone's money, whether it's a movie studio or a record label. Somebody's paying for it, and I'm always respectful of that. But I'm never going to compromise.

  Spike Jonze

  Labels, Records, Compromise

  "Spike Jonze: 'I'm never going to compromise'". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2009.

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• All I want to do is give the world my heart... Record label tryina make me compromise my art.

  Erykah Badu

  Art, Giving, Labels

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• My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time.

  Rosanne Cash

  Artist, Labels, Records

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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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• Knowing record labels and knowing the kinds of things they would object to-they just object to everything that's interesting.

  Aimee Mann

  Knowing, Interesting, Labels

  Interview with David Coggins, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 5, 2009.

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• I work at a record label where I have archives. These things [memorabilia] occurred and are important to somebody, and they're important to me. I find the record industry largely repellent. This music, the Teen Idles, all of that stuff, is important to me. I don't have lawyers, an agent or a manager. However I find the music industry largely repellent. I just make records because that's what I love to do. So I think that era, those pieces of media, I keep in my collection.

  Ian MacKaye

  Thinking, Media, Important

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Record labels have enjoyed a 100-year monopoly of selling plastic and now they're up against a different format.

  Ian MacKaye

  Years, Records, Different

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• For me, I guess, just learning that just because there's not a whole lot of female MCs on the front lines being supported by major record labels doesn't mean they don't exist. It doesn't mean they don't have the drive and the competitive nature and the will and the way.

  MC Lyte

  Mean, Female, Labels

  "MC Lyte’s Current Mission Is To Educate The Next Generation Of Hip-Hop Leaders". Blogarama Interview, www.blogarama.com. August 23, 2016.

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• I've always had to deal with being biracial, even in music. When I came on the scene, I'd go to these record labels, and they'd say things like, "Lenny Kravitz. That's a weird name." I'm brown-skinned and I've got these dreadlocks and I've got this Jewish last name.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Names, Labels, Records

  Interview with Raphael Saadiq, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 14, 2012.

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• Musically, between me and my fans and also me and my team, who between management and record label have always just let me be me, it's fun to pave a path. It's fun to feel like you're doing things your own way. So in that regard I haven't had to worry about any bar but my own.

  Josh Groban

  Fun, Team, Worry

  "Singer Josh Groban". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 8, 2010.

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• My record label, which is a huge record label who represents massive, massive stars - they've never done anything like this before, and they were so excited about this idea of an animated character which is singing legitimate music. It's not a comedy record, it's a legitimate record. And they really jumped on board. So, we've got our Facebook page up, we'll be jumping on Twitter very soon, and sort of be creating Haley outside of American Dad.

  Rachael MacFarlane

  Stars, Dad, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• In a sense, the music business and I haven't always been the best of bedfellows. Artists often have to fight their corner. Your music goes through these filters of record labels and media, and you're hoping you'll find someone who'll help you get your work into the world.

  Annie Lennox

  Fighting, Artist, Media

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• The band has always been such a huge part of my life and it kept me very busy. That, in combination with something like running a record label, just means my whole life revolves completely around metal music and I can't do that anymore.

  Blake Judd

  Running, Mean, Labels

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• And the next album I do is going to be different because I'm going to change. I already did that thing where I had a band - and I had a great time with a band - but it was almost like pandering to get a record label deal.

  Laura Bell Bundy

  Different, Albums, Labels

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Kaputt was just a record that did really well for us, and therefore our record label and our booking agent said that we should go out and take our message to the world.

  Dan Bejar

  Labels, Records, Agents

  "Destroyer. Pornographer. Bejar". Interview With Phil Runco, brightestyoungthings.com. June 12, 2012.

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• I think it's because we're not purists, we're open to all kinds of music. We're not afraid to take chances and we work really hard, and we gig relentlessly, we've been very active in the studio, we're active with the record labels that we have. So I think it's like a full-on assault. We've stalled in many different directions and it kept us in the limelight for so many years.

  Ali Shirazinia

  Thinking, Years, Different

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• We have signed with Artemis Records. Originally they were our distributor for 'Group Therapy'. My former manager (Chip Quigley) started a record label (Recon Records) and had Artemis Records as their distributor. Unfortunately, the way the label was run meant that it didn't turn out the way that we thought it was going to be. We simply got into something that was different to what we initially thought

  Brian Ebejer

  Running, Way, Groups

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• I don't get a lot of big offers. Never have in my career. For some reason, record labels don't call me, famous bands don't call me, only kids in rock bands. I don't know why, and I don't worry about it. I would worry about it if I wasn't working, if I was unemployed.

  Gordon Raphael

  Kids, Careers, Rocks

  Source: www.indieberlin.de

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• We definitely needed to spend a good solid year just finding ourselves before anyone would even notice us. We had our fan-base growing around here in Los Angeles, but I wouldn't even have wanted anyone to come out to see us that was from a record label or something like that at that time, because we really needed to feel ourselves out as a live band.

  Theresa Wayman

  Years, Fans, Labels

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• Every time I meet the CEO of a record label I tell them how they did it in the seventies because they want to know. I tell them, "Sign a hundred people! Throw it against the wall and see which ones stick!" And they frown and say, "Oh, we can't do that!" and they start mumbling about demographics and this and that.

  Tony Visconti

  Wall, People, Labels

  "Sound & Vision: Tony Visconti". Interview with Allyson Mccabe, therumpus.net. January 4, 2016.

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• Fans decide what pop culture is. We can define ourselves. Music and the presentation of art nowadays is totally in our control, with the Internet specifically. You no longer need record labels. You no longer need movie distribution companies. You can just make it and put it online, and it will distribute itself to millions of people. The borders and everything have been broken down. It really is in the hands of the people.

  Laura Jane Grace

  Art, Hands, People

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• I just got a chance to see strong tenacity and a desire to be on top from some young women who have never seen six, seven women signed at a time to major record labels. But they believe that they can put their footprint in hip hop in a major way.

  MC Lyte

  Strong, Believe, Hip Hop

  Source: uproxx.com

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• The fact of the matter is, if you're not putting out stuff that people are feeling, then your record label doesn't mean a goddamn thing.

  El-P

  Mean, People, Feelings

  Source: www.avclub.com

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