Record Companies Quotes (page 3)

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• music
• develops
• recordings

Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies. Gary Wright

• good
• perspective
• intention

The intentions of record companies are not good, from the musician's perspective. Melissa Auf der Maur

• want
• recordings
• wanted

I don't want a record company, but I need one, unfortunately. Melissa Auf der Maur

• money
• records
• company

Money don't rule me, record companies don't rule me. Link Wray

• music
• learning
• film

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

• priority
• thinking
• producers

When I do an album I try to find a producer that's excited about something that they want me to sing, and I check with the record company to find out what they think they can sell - which is their No. 1 priority. Johnny Mathis

• relationship
• writing
• wellness

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

• nice
• thinking
• interests

We had an EP out and all of a sudden we find record companies are interested in us, and we're thinking, 'Oh, that's really nice, but we don't think we're ready for it.' Debbi Peterson

• people
• caring
• song

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
• lawyer
• accounting

Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big. David Crosby

• giving
• ultimate
• music

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

• pain
• future
• running

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

• busy
• business
• enough

I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company. Don Henley

• business
• regret
• busy

The record company really pissed me off when they told me to lose weight. I couldn't be bothered with looking a certain way. So I left the business. I don't regret it. Kim Wilde

• white
• company
• whites

We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell. Barry White