I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fired, and I'd be left with the record company. And then - because they got fired - the record company wo...
There are no record companies in Waikiki.
I didn't need to depend on the record company to publish my records.
I have been with the record company and Tommy was there doing records with other people.
The intentions of record companies are not good, from the musician's perspective.
The record company started as an adjunct to that, to give young composers their first recorded performances; to give young musicians their first debut on a recording. These are all things that big record companies would never touch because there is n...
When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - were run by people who loved records, people like Ahmet Ertegun, who ran Atlantic Records, who were record collectors. They got in it because they loved ...
Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their music is owned by the record company. But I did mine through a production company.
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.
Money don't rule me, record companies don't rule me.
Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.
Those record companies don't know what's happening at all.
I don't want a record company, but I need one, unfortunately.
It's always push and pull with a record company.
I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film.
I understand quarterly billing, how the record companies run.
Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart.
If you're part of a record company, you're a manufactured product. It doesn't mean that you're not talented.
It's not like it used to be where everybody has a record company to belong to.
There aren't enough people who are scaring the kind of people who work at these record companies.
One startup I dream of funding is the one that kills the record companies.
