If I was rich enough, I would love to launch my own record label. I would love to try and give all my musically talented friends a start in the industry.
All of my songwriting success happened within a four month time span, and my record label deal happened within the next three months.
My record label is treating me like I’m a new artist, which is exciting after all this time.
Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to start a record label.
When Alcatrazz played in Japan in early ’84, the record label offered me the opportunity to do a solo album while continuing to play in the band. I wanted the whole album to have vocals, but the record company didn’t want that. Initially, the album was released solely in Japan.
I wanted to raise my kids to be strong, independent and follow their dreams and be themselves and make choices based on what they want not what the press, management or a record label or I don’t care who it is… you stick to what you want and you be who you are and be proud of it.
I got out of the business because I went from being the biggest artist on my record label to someone they didn’t even want to have around.
After we wrote The Wreckoning, our record label did listen.
Singing is my favorite thing to do. One day, I hope to get signed to a record label.
I don’t get involved in record label politics.
I know a lot of people who jumped into a record label right away, dropped an album, and then nothing happened for them. Build your fan base first, and follow your gut.
Friends of friends had bands in college or in their early 20s and had a moment where they had some kind of interest from a record label or manager. It’s always interesting how people handle those decisions and those moments.
I feel like some artists need a record label, and some don’t.
I hate how I’ve had the mantle set on my shoulders as being against the record label. We’ve had some issues, but that is the nature of business.
I’ve started my own record label – Jeepney Music – and I want to put out my own stuff and also stuff by other Filipino artists.
Being in a band is very much like a startup. You start in a garage. You hope to get interest from investors, like a major record label.
I wanted to play in bands and get signed by a record label and tour the world and stuff, but that never really worked out.
Remember the Stax label and how if you liked one record, you liked all the others as well? You don’t talk to a lot of people who tell you how much they love their record label. I don’t care how many records they sell.
Heath Ledger was supposed to put our album on what would have been a new record label. I still feel a little dead after losing him.
I remember when I first came out as an artist, back in 2004 or 2005, the record label used to take me to all the radio stations and just have me sit in, like, their lunchroom or their conference room, and play for the whole staff. Just to introduce them to me so they would play my records.
We had a heroic attitude to artistic freedom, and we thought normal contracts were a bit vulgar – somehow not punk. But that was the whole point – we weren’t a regular record label.
Even though I haven’t released a song since 2010, I have still performed, so I don’t feel I have been completely away from music. I have been away on a mainstream level, of course. But releasing a single this way – on my own independent record label – is more fun.
When I first was a part of ‘The Monster,’ I really wanted to put it out under my name, but no record label thought it was good enough – until Eminem liked it.
I figured it out at a young age: I could meet as many young people online and try to form my own family or my own record label group.
I tried to work with a record label; I tried to work with a booking agency, variety shows. I went to Vegas. I just tried everything I could think of, and nothing took. No one thought there was a place for my style and my music; it was just too different.
Unless you’ve given up your business to a record label, there’s no such thing as just being a musician anymore.
I started my own record label.
I’ve always wanted to push someone who’s not really known but has mad talent. I don’t know if I’m going to do a publishing company or a record label, but I’m interested in pushing artists in any sense.
I still stand behind the stuff I did early on, but I was on a record label, and I didn’t have a lot of creative control. Another side of that is just being young and having bad taste. There was plenty of that, too.
Back in the day, if someone at the record label didn’t care or like your music, it never got to the public. It just got shelved.
The record label used to try and make us do stuff, like dance, and we’d say, nah, not doing that.
We were all friends who formed a band. We weren’t auditioned or put together by a record label, management company or TV show.
I just think that any person who wants music to be their career shouldn’t focus on a record label. I have seen friends who sign to a label too early in their career, and they lost control over their music, and their releases were delayed or never put out.
I just have so much love for my record label.
I bring in the record label who distributes the music.
If you have good songs and a real desire to make music, the next thing to do, instead of approach record companies, is to get yourself a really good manager because then it allows you to focus on your profession of being a musician. Then they can focus on the darker art of the record label and the music industry.
When you find fame, or you get signed to a record label, it’s not what you imagined – because you imagined they would have 100 percent trust or faith in you as an artist. Unfortunately, that’s not really the case – it’s what sells.
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