#labels

Formats are going to change because this is what the people want. It's not what the labels want. ↗

— Nikki Sixx

#change #formats #going #labels #people

My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#canned #feeling #food #i #i am

More labels should be like that. Instead of putting these records out myself, I should have just signed with them, but they probably don't like my music (laughs). ↗

— Matthew Sweet

#instead #just #labels #laughs #like

When I did the record, I was coming off a time when my contract had been sold and the music industry had changed a lot. I didn't understand how to make records for big labels. I was waiting for a new kind of record label to emerge. ↗

— Matthew Sweet

#big #changed #coming #contract #did

From doing Power Station, it was like, it's the same guys, but it doesn't sound like them. When we were in Duran, the labels and management wanted more Duran stuff so they could sell it. ↗

— Andy Taylor

#doing #duran #guys #labels #like

This is a very screwed-up business. Record labels don't sign a lot of bands these days. We just want to find a home and stay there and make records and do our thing and not have to look over our shoulder. ↗

— Andy Taylor

#business #days #find #home #just

I hate labels; the problem is that if you say you're one thing, it's hard for people to imagine you as something else. Music is way more complicated than that. ↗

— Bill Frisell

#else #hard #hate #i #imagine

And since discriminating fans can pick and choose exactly what they want to buy, artists and their labels are more conscious than they've ever been of making sure that every song on a new album is as good as can be. ↗

— Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

#artists #been #buy #choose #conscious

I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics, Brahms, so it's difficult to you know all this like labelling and putting - I think Bach is attractive to musicians because he supersedes the labels. ↗

— Nigel Kennedy

#bach #because #brahms #chopin #composer

In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

#acts #although #any #been #before