#record companies

The people who run record companies now wouldn't know a song if it flew up their nose and died. They haven't a clue, and they don't care. You tell them that, and they go, Yeah? So, your point is? ↗

— David Crosby

#clue #companies #died #flew #go

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

— Adam Ant

#companies #decline #i #live #music

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

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

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

We've managed to have a long career that is still quite vibrant, yet we've never had to kow-tow to record companies who said we weren't commercial enough. ↗

— Alex Lifeson

#commercial #companies #enough #had #long

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

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

— Stan Getz

#documents #now #product #record #record companies

Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking a trend to death is not contributing to culture and is ultimately not profitable. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#companies #contributing #cultural #culture #death