#record companies

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

— Melissa Auf der Maur

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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

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I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

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The record company started as an adjunct to that, to give young composers their first recorded performances; to give young musicians their first debut on a recording. These are all things that big record companies would never touch because there is no money in it! ↗

— Gunther Schuller

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Those record companies don't know what's happening at all. ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

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Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big. ↗

— David Crosby

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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

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I don't think that old-fashioned idea of record companies exists any more. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

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

— Adam Ant

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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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