Martin Shkreli Quotes

Obviously, with your first album, you want to make sure you are really happy with it.

Roc was only supposed to be our distributor, but then they ended up recruiting me as the label's artist. They said they really liked my album 'Everything You Wanted.'

I'm continuing to produce and will start a new record soon, as well.

My next baby will be my new record.

This is a very screwed-up business. Record labels don't sign a lot of bands these days. We just want to find a home and stay there and make records and do our thing and not have to look over our shoulder.

I always wanted to have my own album recorded and released before I graduated high school.

We turned what is virtually a glorified independent label into one of the powerhouse labels in the town.

I certainly don't want to be a record label guy.

I'm just focusing on 'Let's Stay Together' and slowly building my production company. I'm trying to get into writing as well.

I remember telling the head of Warner Brothers that if they'd just make a video for 'Ol' Red'... and if it didn't work, they could drop me from the label.

To go indie is a thing. But to put an album in the stores, you need a distribution label.

I have always abhorred the business end of music.

I don't think the record company is aware of it. Because they just bury my albums and don't release them.

I don't want a record company, but I need one, unfortunately.

I just have so much love for my record label.

I think that there will always be artists out there who think they need to sign a major label deal in order to be successful. And that machine is what is going to work for them - there's tons of examples of pop stars who need that machine.

If it wasn't for the TLC story, many artists would not have smartened up, and you wouldn't have the Lil Waynes and people with their own labels.

I know being on a major label is meant to be antiquated, but we're fine with it.

At the end of the day, you sign a record deal and you understand where it could go if you had the right song.

I was with PolyGram; that was the big label that I was with for the longest, like 12 years.

My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.

After we wrote The Wreckoning, our record label did listen.

I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over, before we know what was going on.

In 1999, I just came out of putting out the song 'Vivrant Thing' and 'Breathe and Stop' off the 'Amplified' album. Clive Davis signed me to Arista.

The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.