Back in the early days like for the Temptations, Supremes and Four Tops, artist development was alive in record companies. Every artist had a moment to develop the record visually. When the web took over and camera phones, it stripped the artists of ...
It's hard to get people at a record company to talk about music. They don't seem to want to talk about music, it's all marketing, and that's part of a record, you gotta get it out there, people have gotta hear it, but you could do it in a way that's ...
You're starting to see new record companies and business models taking shape, but it takes time.
I see myself as the buffer between the band and the record company.
Every time I release an album my old record company releases another one.
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.
The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups.
When you make a lot of money for a record company, they don't want you to evolve. Growing older, you naturally do.
It's like, it's up to the people to fall in love with the song. The record company can only do so much.
The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.
I would like to promote the concept of a partnership of insurance companies, physicians and hospitals in deploying a basic framework for an electronic medical records system that is affordable.
If we can have record high unemployment, record job loss, and just an absolutely anemic economic recovery because of Obama's policies, and he's not blamed for it, what makes anybody think he's gonna get blamed when an insurance company starts doublin...
My whole team, it wasn't about putting the album out, it was about getting off the record company and going independent or going to another label. To the point we were like, 'Listen, just take 'Lasers.' You can have whatever percentage off the next t...
I always say this to people: 'If Shaq can be in the NBA for 19 years and dominate for 19 years using his body, why can't I be in the music industry for 50 years using my brain when my brain is way stronger than anyone's body?' I have to have a succes...
A lot of record company people, even though they're our age, want to be perceived as young hip guys, and they're hurting the business.
Record companies, I found out, can put out compilations without your permission.
I don't think the record company is aware of it. Because they just bury my albums and don't release them.
We're probably doing better business than we thought we would do especially considering the disappointing way the record company has handled the album.
The record labels used to spend money on advertising, and social media has replaced that entirely - it's putting magazines out of business. It's put big companies into completely reinventing their strategies.
I challenge record companies to show me evidence of a single penny they've lost due to Napster.
It's always very special for me to work Chicago. Both of the record companies I was with, early on, were based in Chicago. The music was always huge there.
