#record companies

The intentions of record companies are not good, from the musician's perspective. ↗

— Melissa Auf der Maur

#good #intentions #musician #perspective #record

Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame. ↗

— Marian McPartland

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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. ↗

— Juice Newton

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There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission. ↗

— Prince

#artists #called #companies #compulsory #law

I challenge record companies to show me evidence of a single penny they've lost due to Napster. ↗

— Dave Rowntree

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I've been wanting to sing for a long time. I've been singing all my life, and I've tried different record companies, but it seemed like - it was such a struggle and so hard to get out there. So, I said, 'I'm gonna go on American Idol and see how far it takes me.' ↗

— Fantasia Barrino

#american idol #been #companies #different #far

It's all false pressure; you put the heat on yourself, you get it from the networks and record companies and movie studios. You put more pressure on yourself to make everything that much harder. ↗

— John Belushi

#everything #false #get #harder #heat

When certain bootleg companies started off and they would take maybe ten per cent of whatever they got and help fuel new bands, which I'm cool with, I think that's a good idea. Most of the record companies are not doing that. ↗

— David Coverdale

#bootleg #cent #certain #companies #cool

When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - were run by people who loved records, people like Ahmet Ertegun, who ran Atlantic Records, who were record collectors. They got in it because they loved music. ↗

— David Crosby

#atlantic #because #collectors #companies #good

Records used to be documents, but now record companies want product. ↗

— Stan Getz

#documents #now #product #record #record companies