#record companies

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

— Dave Rowntree

#companies #due #evidence #i #lost

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

People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me. ↗

— Adam Ant

#companies #company #destroyed #did #i

First of all, you needed a budget to do the video. The record companies would pick and choose who got videos. ↗

— Nina Blackwood

#choose #companies #first #first of all #got

I thought I'd be wasting my time to go to commercial record companies and make demos for them, because don't forget, I was doing what I was doing and nobody understood what I was doing. ↗

— John Fahey

#commercial #companies #demos #doing #forget

I don't know what they're thinking about. Just because someone says, 'I like what you do' or something: They might like it today and tomorrow they might not. I've had that experience with record companies. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#because #companies #experience #had #i

Most of my relationships have been like that - with record companies. I've never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. I've always had a personal relationship with someone in the company. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#been #business #companies #company #had

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

#big #companies #definitely #get #lawyers

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