Labels Quotations | Page 5

I'd be ashamed to see a woman walking around with my name-label on her, address and railway station, like a wardrobe trunk.

The only thing major labels can really offer is money.

I've been part of running a label since I was a kid, so I understand how it works. But the more and more I learn about it, the less and less interested I am in it.

Spotify has paid more than two billion dollars to labels, publishers and collecting societies for distribution to songwriters and recording artists.

There's always going to be a need for gatekeepers who perform the service that record labels do now. Otherwise, it's just noise, pure cacophony. Most people who are not A&R (Artist & Repertoire) executives don't want to sort through tens of thousands of contenders to find 50 things that sound great.

In our industry, it's not unusual to receive a box with up to a dozen bar code labels on it from the manufacturer. The scan tunnel can differentiate the right bar code we need.

In other markets, particularly in Europe, there are private labels that do command a premium.

We're a small band, but we have a following. Our records turn a profit, even if it's meager. And that's something to be said in this day and age. I was surprised at the reaction of most labels we contacted. The calls that weren't returned were shocking. Merge, Matador, Thrill Jockey and Touch and Go were labels I thought I had business contacting. Having a predictable potential that isn't awesome is a lot worse than having an unknown potential.

We're asking people to check the labels on the products they buy.

Part of that is record labels continually try to work their catalog so they always have money coming in,