Chris Martin Quotes

Getting a record deal is a meaningless thing now.

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.

I once worked at a record label called London Records. The company was owned by Roger Ames, one of the most successful figures in the British music industry. Roger always placed a value on loafing, on holidays, on not being in the office all the time.

My passion is music, you know, and music influences culture, influences lifestyle, which leads me to 'Roc-A-Wear'. I was forced to be an entrepreneur, so that led me to be CEO of 'Roc-A-Fella' records, which lead to Def Jam.

I just wanted to have my own dynasty. I wanted my own Cash Money or Roc-A-Fella. Outside of that, I also wanted my own media company.

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

It's not like it used to be where everybody has a record company to belong to.

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

That's my favorite subject because it really levels the playing field for artists these days. You don't have to sell out to the record company. You don't have to get a five hundred thousand dollars, or whatever, and pay them back for the rest of your life to record a record.

As far as being on a major label, some labels get it and get what they have to do, and some labels don't. I don't think the label I'm on necessarily gets it, but I think over time they're gonna have to.

I'm very new to the industry. I'm not on the Billboard 200 and that is alarming to me. But when I sat down with my management they said it's not a big deal and that it happens all the time.

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

I just have so much love for my record label.

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

I can't believe I got a major-label record deal. My music was quirky, and my voice was so odd and high and girlish, it was like a weird novelty act.

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

I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers.

I should be the one to say what I do. It's just not done that way anymore in Nashville, and I can't do it the other way. That's how our record label came about.

I have known from the beginning one thing you need to know. That is, the music business is a business.

Making music has gotten easier; selling it has gotten harder. Making music has been democratized, but the market is in the hands of fascists.

If you're not on a major label today, you're not gonna get played. They've got the market sewed up.

I am going into the adult market because they don't care what label you are signed to or who you know.

I am a record executive and I shall be right there in your face with my records.

If you had ever heard my album you would know that I could never consider the music business!

I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.