#abe

If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don't want to open up my cornflakes and find that they're full of pebbles... You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn't. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#call #cover #dragons #enough #ethical

I was with PolyGram; that was the big label that I was with for the longest, like 12 years. ↗

— Roy Ayers

#i #label #like #longest #years

Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound. ↗

— Randy Bachman

#becomes #branded #generally #gets #held

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. ↗

— Jane Austen

#past #pleasure #remembrance #past

Do little things every day that no one else seems to want to do, be patient, and success will find you. ↗

— Brandi L. Bates

#elizabeth-gilbert #enlightenment #life #success #wisdom

What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#blood #cells #chronic #i #leukemia

When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this. ↗

— Damon Albarn

#business #deal #defeat #different #different way

Make no mistake about it: once a band has signed a letter of intent, they will either eventually sign a contract that suits the label or they will be destroyed. ↗

— Steve Albini

#band #contract #destroyed #either #eventually

The band cannot sign to another label or even put out its own material unless they are released from their agreement, which never happens. ↗

— Steve Albini

#another #band #cannot #even #happens

Shoot, there's a committee to tell you everything at a record label. You definitely have to know who you are if you want to look like you at the end of the process. We've all seen people get record contracts, and by the time they're spit out by the machine, we don't even recognize them. ↗

— Gary Allan

#contracts #definitely #end #even #everything