I can’t wait until
I can’t wait until the record label feels like it’s time for my album to come out, and then just disappear. Donnis
Record Labels
I’m going to keep
I’m going to keep proving people wrong, whether it’s my record label, other artists. Donnis
[Jack Johnson] became a
[Jack Johnson] became a superstar and started his own record label, and then he made and produced my first record, he co-wrote the songs on there, and then he let me open up for him for two years all around the world. And that was like the best start I could’ve had, the best way … Read more
I think record cover
I think record cover sleeves really led towards, but at the same time the album as we know it didn’t come into being until mainly after the Second World War because record labels realized they’d be able to make a lot more money putting all the singles of an artist onto one album and selling … Read more
Steve Jobs gave a
Steve Jobs gave a small private presentation about the iTunes Music Store to some independent record label people. My favorite line of the day was when people kept raising their hand saying, Does it do [x]?, Do you plan to add [y]?. Finally Jobs said, Wait wait – put your hands down. Listen: I know … Read more
The opportunity to record
The opportunity to record the song came when Phil Collins’ record label, Atlantic, was doing a tribute album to him and they asked all these different artists to do renditions of his songs. Deborah Cox
We drank quite a
We drank quite a lot and Tony Harrington said, We’re thinking of starting a record label at The Wire; how about you do a solo record? I said, Well, how am I going to do that? I thought about it, and I’d been working on a lot of music in the years before, and I … Read more
In the early 1970s.
In the early 1970s. 1971, ’72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren’t signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that. Dave Van Ronk
Remember the Stax label
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. Darius Rucker
Kaputt was just a
Kaputt was just a record that did really well for us, and therefore our record label and our booking agent said that we should go out and take our message to the world. Dan Bejar