#record companies

Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live. ↗

— Adam Ant

#companies #decline #i #live #music

When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record shop? But I think we all agree that radio stations are good stuff. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#buy #companies #could #free #good

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part. ↗

— David Byrne

#companies #demise #gatekeepers #good #good thing

Record companies are not necessarily interested in you realizing your artistic dream. The bottom line is that they got to sell records. ↗

— Mos Def

#bottom #bottom line #companies #dream #got

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#companies #completely #constant #find #hit

I'm really happy that I got to work with such fresh talent. In a day when record companies are not particularly good at encouraging young, talented songwriters to come forward and get exposure, I think it's important to give tomorrow's songwriters the opportunity. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#companies #day #encouraging #exposure #forward

The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups. ↗

— Norman Granz

#get #groups #interested #kind #record

The only thing I have no control over is the politics that goes on within the record company. It's always been the same, but it's far tougher now, because record companies are run by financial people; before, they were run by creative people. ↗

— Enrique Iglesias

#because #been #before #companies #company

There aren't enough people who are scaring the kind of people who work at these record companies. ↗

— Greg Ginn

#enough #enough people #kind #people #record

Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#another #bad #because #business #companies