#record companies

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

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

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'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

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

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