70 Record Label Quotes
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Famous Record Label Quotes
I wanted control over the merchandising, the actual packaging of the product. That was a big factor. The only way for me to exercise control on all those levels was to start my own label. — Helen Reddy
My dream is to do whatever I want without any interference from the record company. — Sarah Vaughan
Independent artists and labels have always been the trendsetters in music and the music business. — Shawn Fanning
I think, back in the day, when I was first starting to make music, all I wanted to do was to get a record deal. — G-Eazy
I started a recording studio. I started producing people and doing remixes. — James Iha
Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive — Chuck Berry
Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound. — Randy Bachman
Question: Why is that MC's be wack And major labels wanna sign that crap? A-yo...funk that! — Phife Dawg
This is the industry that wants [music], the rap industry. You have to be on deck all the time, but you do not have the time to do the album. It is an energy, it must be present in everyday life. — Young Thug
Who wanna be next? While you a dead superstar, the record company still cashin' checks. — Master P
Buy real records in real shops, or I'll come round your house and scream at your mother. — Ian Gillan
Normally, you go into the recording studio, make a record and then take it on the road and you think... wow... I could have done THIS to it, or something. — Brian Setzer
I'm recording an album. It's sort of techno mixed with garbage - you, know, intense in-your-face music. — Christy Carlson Romano
It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now. — Charley Pride
Every album I make big records. I'm going to always make an anthem. That's what I do. — DJ Khaled
Record Companies Quotes
The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls. — Charley Pride
We play the music we want to play and we play the places we want to play. I'd hate to be on the usual record company where you get an album out and you do a tour, and you do all the Odeon's and all the this that and the others. I couldn't just do that at all. — Ian Curtis
I'm doing my part, building plants at a record rate, having historic conservation levels. The only people not doing their part is the federal government that is siding with the energy companies against the interests of the people of California. — Gray Davis
I think all record companies should be run by a musician. Just as you wouldn't trust your health to an electrician. — Paul Bley
The corporations have taken over. Even in the recording studio. Actually, the corporate companies have taken over American life most everywhere. Go coast to coast and you will see people wearing the same clothes, thinking the same thoughts, eating the same food. Everything is processed. — Bob Dylan
I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling... I'm the most sampled artist in history. — Rick James
I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it - like, they say "rock". Because the white singers can't sound like James Brown, they call him "soul". They've been doing that for years. That's the prejudice crap. — Miles Davis
I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name's getting out there more, thanks to all the good people at Alligator Records and at my management company. — Luther Allison
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
I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company. — Jay-Z
People Writing About Record Label
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Helen Reddy |
51 | 300 |
 Sarah Vaughan |
10 | 155 |
 Shawn Fanning |
12 | 174 |
 G-Eazy |
61 | 2048 |
 James Iha |
32 | 177 |
 Chuck Berry |
51 | 1164 |
More Record Label Quotes
However, the radio and national media depend much more on the hype from a good record label, and from a " buzz " about a band, then from just one or two good shows. There are a lot of artists that have a ton of good press going for them, and still do not make it big in the US. — Pat Garrett
I learned how to take other people's mechanisms of promoting their stuff through me as opposed to promoting my own stuff, as far as getting Snoop DeVilles, SnoopDeGrills, Snoop Doggy Dogg biscuits, Snoop Dogg record label, Snoop Dogg bubble gum, Snoop Youth Football League. — Snoop Dogg
The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula. — Branford Marsalis
If people stop being interested it's because you haven't written a good enough album. Music will always be the most powerful thing. It doesn't matter what record labels or journalists say. It's the song. — Tom Odell
I was turned down by every record label in L.A. Perseverance is three quarters of the game. Talent's only a quarter. Being able to withstand the word 'no' over and over can build you a pretty tough skin. I knew if I just kept at it, at the very least I'd get better at my craft. — Sheryl Crow
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
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
I had to learn the hard way. There was a blindness, without any education or will or drive. Everything I started in the beginning from skate shops to record labels to a million and one side hustles that I went in without knowing how I was going to do it, a lot of those ventures just went out of business. — Rob Dyrdek
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
I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them. — Gary Wright
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
As a label, you have to treat every group and every record as a unique entity. I think that that has been our success, rather than relying upon a fan base. — Greg Ginn
I signal with an independent label, Continuum. After that I put out a totally independent record, sold fourteen thousand of them from my basement, bought a house, started raising my kid, made a decent living. — Kid Rock
At 13 years old, I realized I could start my own band. I could write my own song, I could record my own record. I could start my own label. I could release my own record. I could book my own shows. I could write and publish my own fanzine. I could silk-screen my own T-shirt. I could do this all myself. — Dave Grohl
If you don't get substantially what you want, be ready to walk. And don't look back. — Norman Granz
I hate record labels. They think they know everything. I want to hear them try to sing it. — Jessica Simpson
Actually, we got signed in November of 2000 with Dreamworks which is the most amazing label. We have friends on other labels and though we are not selling millions of records, yet, they treat us with tons of respect and give us some very good guidance. — Adam Rich
I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I've started a record label, so I get to nurture new talent and talk about music, which is a passion of mine. I've written another book. And I get to come to work and do the TV show, which is always really fun. — Ellen DeGeneres
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
I hear some new artists that sound country but the record labels and country radio lean more toward a more rock feel for what gets signed to a label and played on the radio. — George Jones
Record labels have enjoyed a 100-year monopoly of selling plastic and now they're up against a different format. — Ian MacKaye
Well, the good news is that there's quite a lot of cynicism about major labels within radio and the press. I think they have been largely disillusioned by the manner in which the record companies have developed music. — Mick Hucknall
The rise of the Internet has caused the demise of the record labels, and has destroyed the music business of old, but it's also created new opportunities for young artists. — Judy Collins
We were 6 feet under. A lot of people gave up on us, including fans and critics and show promoters and record labels. — Jacoby Shaddix
You can now be a master of your own destiny. I'm not sure why you would sign up with a record label. — Sean Parker
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
We recorded that trio and it's out on the Knitting Factory label. I've got another record in the can with that group and Marc, which I'll hopefully finish some time before next summer. — Arto Lindsay
All I want to do is give the world my heart... Record label tryina make me compromise my art. — Erykah Badu
It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore. — Evan Dando
I want to invest and have my own record label and artists. I want to have a business where my kids, kids, kids will still have something going on long after I'm gone. — Chingy
When I did the record, I was coming off a time when my contract had been sold and the music industry had changed a lot. I didn't understand how to make records for big labels. I was waiting for a new kind of record label to emerge. — Matthew Sweet
My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time. — Rosanne Cash
A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it. — Taylor Swift
Record labels today are much less patient: Artists have a bad record, and they're gone. — Kenny Chesney
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
Nowadays, it's a lot more in the kids hands. You don't really need a record label. You can get the money together yourselves. You can just do it through Myspace. There are bands that are huge, without record labels today. Now, I think it's a lot more, in kids hands. — Mattew Nicholls
I didn't have to fit into a mold. You make the mold. People can smell a rat. If you're doing thing for marketing and for a record label, you're going to set yourself up to be called a phony. As long as it's true to you, you do it. — Anthony Evans
I built a reputation as a songwriter in the industry before my own hits. People were used to coming to me for songs. There were songs like 'Clown' and 'Mountains' that were my songs that I wanted to keep. But the record labels saw me as a songwriter. It was hard to get people to believe in me as an artist. — Emeli Sande
If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes. — Dave Van Ronk
There's a pianist out of Boston who made a beautiful record for the Fresh Sound label called "Sketch Book"; his name is Vardan Ovsepian. — Brad Mehldau
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
If I was rich enough, I would love to launch my own record label. I would love to try and give all my musically talented friends a start in the industry. — Cara Delevingne
I was offered seven deals from seven different major labels between 2009-2011, and to be quite honest... nowadays, you need a hit record, a great radio team, an amazing PR firm, social media, a big budget, a team that is ready to work extremely hard, and the drive and passion to win! — Ashanti
When I first tried to get a record deal for my original music, labels didn’t understand what these instruments were meant to be doing — Suzanne Ciani
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