My responsibility is to the artist first. There's something that artists intrinsically know about their music and their fanbase that neither the record company nor the producer really knows.
At the beginning, at my shows, there were a lot of press and people from record companies. Now there are people who are there to just listen to the music and are genuine fans.
If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road.
The record company doesn't know what to do with me, because I'm not a Lily Allen, but I'm not really an indie artist, either. All the best artists have been in the middle.
I had always thought of starting my own record company. I haven't regretted the decision - yet!
I don't think that old-fashioned idea of record companies exists any more.
Viacom's results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004.
First of all, you needed a budget to do the video. The record companies would pick and choose who got videos.
With technology you can now be your own record company, director, producer, etc. If you have talent, you can display it on the Internet and the world will tell you their thoughts in the matter of seconds!
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.
Between the record companies being the way they are and the fact that people can just download one song instead of buying a whole album, it's hard to make a good living nowadays.
I don't hear record companies coming up with any good ideas or suggestions. Historically, if it ain't their idea, it ain't no good, so you got that to contend with.
I like Rick Ross as a person. I like Jay-Z and Kanye West as people. But I hate the companies that they record for.
We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell.
The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.
I started writing music when I was around twelve. My current record company saw a video of me performing at my school's talent show.
There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.
I was too shy, I think, to sing publicly. It takes a particular kind of person. And when I was young, I was not that person. In the first instance, when a record company said to me, do you want to try and make your record, my first reaction was, no, ...
The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio.
Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame.
I'm pushing ahead on my own - you no longer need a large record company to make you a star.
