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There are no record companies in Waikiki.
Record companies, they're just like lemmings.
It's always push and pull with a record company.
Money don't rule me, record companies don't rule me.
Publishers and record companies love a broken heart.
Record companies are not unique. Artists are. Period!
Those record companies don't know what's happening at all.
I understand quarterly billing, how the record companies run.
Records used to be documents, but now record companies want product.
I don't think that old-fashioned idea of record companies exists any more.
One startup I dream of funding is the one that kills the record companies.
Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart.
Sometimes you are at the mercy of record companies or publishing companies.
Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live.
Record companies, I found out, can put out compilations without your permission.
The intentions of record companies are not good, from the musician's perspective.
Corporate America couldn't be more excited about the demise of the record companies.
I used to run record companies, and I went to the advertising business at 29 years old.
Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.
The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups.
I challenge record companies to show me evidence of a single penny they've lost due to Napster.
You're starting to see new record companies and business models taking shape, but it takes time.
I'd always been a club kid, so I was totally unaware that people had their own record companies.
There aren't enough people who are scaring the kind of people who work at these record companies.
Record companies tell me to play something more commercial, but I don't want to do anything else.
I always thought that if record companies didn't understand me, fine - I'd go and do it by myself.
All record companies want big-selling records, and my music is a little too raw for commercial success.
Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame.
First of all, you needed a budget to do the video. The record companies would pick and choose who got videos.
The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.
There are very few record companies who will entertain a middle-aged woman coming to them with original material.
I grew up in an era where the record companies just sold records to everybody, and the whole family bought songs.
The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio.
As long as those things are on vinyl or tape or what have you, the record companies are going to release them someday.
People don't really buy records anymore, so record companies won't invest in bands like us. They want cookie-cutter acts.
You used to make records, record companies sold them, and people went to record stores and bought them. That's all gone now.
This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.
The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.
I left the entertainment industry part of my life behind in 1983, when we decided not to work with major record companies anymore.
The record companies don't give you a chance, like in the old days when they went, 'Here's a pile of money. Go make a good record!'
We showed record companies that they shouldn't be scared just because it's an all-girl band. We could play just as well as the boys.
Record companies are not necessarily interested in you realizing your artistic dream. The bottom line is that they got to sell records.
It's typical of record companies. They sign you because you're unique, and then they want to put you in a mold so they can sell records.
I put 'Ghost' online hoping to make a couple hundred bucks, but then the next day, I took meetings with five different record companies.
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.
Leaving Interscope was not a personal thing. These record companies are a certain kind of machine, and we weren't able to function in it.
American record companies seem to feel I am antiwestern, anticapitalism, anti the kind of society they like. They think I'm a troublemaker.
The record companies didn't want 'Stony Road,' and it ended up being a gold album. They didn't want 'Blue Guitars,' and we did 165,000 books.
Record companies feel they are the culture. Hip-hop has to begin to define, protect, and promote itself, and that's why we founded the Temple.
There are good people in radio and the record companies, but there are others who are completely in the wrong job and holding music up in the process.