Record Company Quotes

To be on this set today, I feel very blessed for the second chance and for the opportunity, my record company believing in me and everybody here just showing me so much love and support.
Brandy Norwood

Love, Today, Blessed

I produce the records. I don't hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record company and then tries to bend me to their will - for commercial purposes.
Tori Amos

Control, Hand, Company

And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it's catchy, and you've got a little bit of help, I think that's all you need. But there hasn't been that in music.
Joan Jett

Music, Great, Fight

Blackheart Records being 25 years old represents staying power and the fact that we weren't able to get a record out through conventional means, so we had to create this record company to put out our records if we wanted to be a band that had records to give out to their fans.
Joan Jett

Power, Give, Through

I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me - and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management. At some point, I need to recharge.
Blake Shelton

Love, Freedom, Down

The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.
Paul Simon

Company, Stay, Finished

Don't give up, be positive and if you know someone who knows someone at a record company don't stop beating down their door till you get heard. Don't ever say it'll never happen or it'll never happen.
Mary J. Blige

Positive, Someone, Down

There's the famous thing that the A&R man from the record company is supposed to do: He's supposed to come into the studio and listen to the songs you've been recording and then say, 'Guys, I don't hear any singles.' And then everybody falls into a terrible depression because you have to write one.
Jarvis Cocker

Famous, Depression, Write

It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it.
Helen Reddy

Women, Bad, Long

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

Politics, Control, Before

I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind.
Etta James

Best, Mind, Said

I told the record company I didn't feel the need to be at red-carpet events. I wanted a career. But I wanted to keep myself intact as a person.
Enya

Person, Career, Keep

If you're part of a record company, you're a manufactured product. It doesn't mean that you're not talented.
Kylie Minogue

Mean, Company, Talented

Bananarama were written off from day one. Nobody believed in us but us. We kept having hits despite the record company, despite the press.
Siobhan Fahey

Off, Nobody, Company

The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.
Charley Pride

Music, Country, Company

Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you're in big trouble if you're borrowing more than you can ever afford to pay back. Delaying the pain for future generations is suicidal. We've got to start getting the deficit down right now, not next year.
Simon Cowell

Future, Pain, Down

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

Time, Through, Wrong

A lot of record company people, even though they're our age, want to be perceived as young hip guys, and they're hurting the business.
John Mellencamp

Age, Business, Young

I have just enough people paying attention that I have the freedom to be in charge. And I have a great record company - Nonesuch understands what I'm about.
Emmylou Harris

Great, Freedom, Enough

I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fired, and I'd be left with the record company. And then - because they got fired - the record company wouldn't do anything for me.
Ornette Coleman

Someone, Playing, Left

When a record company looks at me I'm very hard to market, I don't really fit anywhere, It's hard to get me on the air, and I'm hard to demography, but! because of that I'm not subject to trends like you pointed out.
Leo Kottke

Hard, Company, Looks

I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company.
David Friedman

Wanted, Company, Created

Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their music is owned by the record company. But I did mine through a production company.
Roy Ayers

Music, Through, Company

Radio is aimed at the 30-year-old market, so you have to have great music and appeal to get that age group. And you need a record company to believe in you. It's like a bit of the perfect storm.
Kenny Rogers

Music, Age, Great

I suddenly realized that in order to do what I wanted to do, I had to become that which I hated - which is the head of a record company or a digital media conglomerate - and just do whatever you want.
Dhani Harrison

Become, Wanted, Whatever

I am not going to be dictated to by fans, certainly. I am dictated enough to by my record company to last me a million years.
Marvin Gaye

Enough, Last, Company

I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film.
Carson Daly

Music, Learning, Film

We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell.
Barry White

Put, Said, Company

If you come from Africa with your economic poverty and your cultural riches, and you meet someone like Peter Gabriel or a person from a big record company, and they tell you that what you are doing is marvelous, that makes you feel powerful.
Youssou N'Dour

Powerful, Someone, Person

If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road.
Lou Gramm

Work, Enough, Road

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