Top 1200 Record Companies Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

A publicly run health care program could compete with private insurance companies, which have a record of overcharging and underperforming.

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

We can't allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers... We must do what we can to fix this problem.

I met Arcade Fire on their first record, 'Funeral.' I loved that record, and it was a record I was listening to while I wrote 'Where the Wild Things Are.' Those songs - especially 'Wake Up' and 'Neighbourhood' - there's a lot of that record that's about childhood.

Music companies are not technology companies any more than technology companies are music companies. They're really different from each other.

I challenge record companies to show me evidence of a single penny they've lost due to Napster.

I have invested in companies. I have worked in companies. We have built companies; we have created jobs.

There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between record labels, publishing companies and artists [about the compensation they get from streaming services] Spotify is returning a HUGE amount of money [to the record labels]. If we continue growing at our current rate in terms of subscriptions and downloads, we'll overtake iTunes in terms of contributions to the recorded music business in under two years.

I'm not a corporate machine. I'm not Lady Gaga, I'm not Madonna, I don't have a million dollars behind me and big giant record companies. I am an organic artist.

What record companies do these days is drain the blood dry of an album, take six singles off it, and harm the longevity of artists' careers by doing it.

You can always pound out demos and send them to record companies, but most of the successful bands I've seen are the ones that can sustain themselves.

If you get rid of a lot of the poseurs by destroying record companies, maybe it's a good trade-off.

People don't really buy records anymore, so record companies won't invest in bands like us. They want cookie-cutter acts.

Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart.

And looking at today's music scene, I think it's cool that there are a lot of consumers and fans not limited by what radio and the record companies tell them to buy.

I believe companies like ours are going to be as large as media companies and social networking companies that are valued in the tens of billions of dollars.

Obviously, it's designed by record company executives who want a cheap success, and they don't want to give money to anybody and they don't want to give contracts, so they've created this world of very bubbly teenagers who want to be "idols" and they think all they have to do is mime quite well and they've made it. ... But it's not the problem of the kids, it's the problem of the record companies, because it's just an inexpensive way for them to have so-called, I won't say "artists", but erm...You're nodding, you know what I mean.

When I was starting out with record companies, there was a tendency to simplify the image as a prodigy. I have more than one adjective, and I've always tried to be myself and listen to my instincts.

In most companies, the formal hierarchy is a matter of public record - it's easy to discover who's in charge of what. By contrast, natural leaders don't appear on any organization chart.

It's typical of record companies. They sign you because you're unique, and then they want to put you in a mold so they can sell records.

Chinese companies - telecommunications and technology companies - are some of the best internationally. Taobao, WeChat, Huawei - not only are they large companies, but they're also very technologically advanced.

In my job I meet many outstanding, world class, British based companies. But we need more companies and more jobs in the companies we have.

First of all, you needed a budget to do the video. The record companies would pick and choose who got videos.

Leaving Interscope was not a personal thing. These record companies are a certain kind of machine, and we weren't able to function in it.

I'd always been a club kid, so I was totally unaware that people had their own record companies.

As long as those things are on vinyl or tape or what have you, the record companies are going to release them someday.

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.

If I want to do an orchestral record, if I want to do an acoustic record, if I want to do a death-metal record, if I want to do a jazz record - I can move in whichever direction I want, and no one is going to get upset about that. Except maybe my manager and my record company.

All record companies want big-selling records, and my music is a little too raw for commercial success.

There are a lot of people, especially the younger generation who don't feel that they need to support the artists by buying their music because they grew up learning that record companies are evil.

If you think about companies that were built in Silicon Valley, a lot of them early on were chip companies. And now the companies that are there, like Apple, are much more successful than any of the chip companies were.

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

I'm really glad we came up when we did. When we got started, the record companies were concerned with building careers. They made sure you could put on a live show before you put a record out. And if your first album sold 100,000 to 200,000 copies, they were happy, because they figured you had your foot in the door on a way to a long career.

I left the entertainment industry part of my life behind in 1983, when we decided not to work with major record companies anymore.

I grew up in an era where the record companies just sold records to everybody, and the whole family bought songs.

I put 'Ghost' online hoping to make a couple hundred bucks, but then the next day, I took meetings with five different record companies.

American record companies seem to feel I am antiwestern, anticapitalism, anti the kind of society they like. They think I'm a troublemaker.

Record companies feel they are the culture. Hip-hop has to begin to define, protect, and promote itself, and that's why we founded the Temple.

The record companies really do conspire against the artists. Especially the black artists

Oh, you know record companies. . . at the end of the day, it's business. If you analyse it, you're just a piece of meat. The minute you go bad, it's: 'Next!'.

The paradox is that Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and all the tech giants are bigger fans of music than some of the executives working at major record companies.

When we first started our internet company, 'China Pages', in 1995, and we were just making home pages for a lot of Chinese companies. We went to the big owners, the big companies, and they didn't want to do it. We go to state-owned companies, and they didn't want to do it. Only the small and medium companies really want to do it.

From the age of 14 to about 20, I bombarded record companies and DJs with my demos. I was desperate to get it out there. Most of the time, I got nothing back.

You're starting to see new record companies and business models taking shape, but it takes time.

Record companies tell me to play something more commercial, but I don't want to do anything else.

I think all record companies should be run by a musician. Just as you wouldn't trust your health to an electrician.

There are very few record companies who will entertain a middle-aged woman coming to them with original material.

Companies should not have a singular view of profitability. There needs to be a balance between commerce and social responsibility... The companies that are authentic about it will wind up as the companies that make more money.

When the trust is high, you get the trust dividend. Investors invest in brands people trust. Consumers buy more from companies they trust, they spend more with companies they trust, they recommend companies they trust, and they give companies they trust the benefit of the doubt when things go wrong.

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

Obviously record companies tend to be following what the scene is rather than making the scene.

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.

Unfortunately, you don't get artist development anymore. Record companies have become a huge corporate thing. It used to be you'd meet someone [in the business] and they'd have a little history of music. Some people in the companies now don't even like music. It's just a job. So I miss the days when someone would go out on a limb and pick a band that was different. I just don't see that anymore. It's the same with the film industry.

There are good people in radio and the record companies, but there are others who are completely in the wrong job and holding music up in the process.

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

At 25, I made many companies. I was thinking more like a businessman or entrepreneur than a CEO. I created many companies, small companies, medium companies. I tried to be involved in many kinds of activities, in finance, in real estate, in mining.

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

I was going to study at the Sorbonne and become a diplomat. Being a diplomat comes in handy when you are dealing with record companies.

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

There aren't enough people who are scaring the kind of people who work at these record companies.