Linda Perry Quotes

I made this record without a record label.

You don't need a record company to turn you into anything.

Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.

Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.

I didn't need to depend on the record company to publish my records.

I've always been independent with my music. I've always run my own music label.

I always thought that if record companies didn't understand me, fine - I'd go and do it by myself.

I never solicited a major label and I certainly wouldn't now.

I started my own record label.

Putting out my album on my own label has been a great experience for me. It's been very inspiring. It's like a new start for me and having all this creative freedom is so liberating and exciting.

I was an artist, I was executive producer on my first album, so I've always had to manage both. I couldn't get a record deal. It wasn't by choice - I couldn't get a record deal, so I had to figure it out.

It's great to be able to find a way to release your music and do what you want to do artistically and not have to just worry about being accepted by the major label industry.

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.

I think what I've learned to focus on is my music, and that's why I made my record independently.

I don't have to worry about what the average record company person thinks because I am the record company person.

If I could have stayed independent from the jump, then, maybe, things would have been different. 'Return of 4Eva' would have been an album instead of a mixtape.

Starting my own label was more out of necessity. I'm not going to sit around and wait for labels to come screaming.

That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them.

When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.

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.

I love producing. I have been producing some acts and starting a label.

Artists have so much more control of their futures - they don't need to rely so much on major labels or big companies to help them. You have artists like Skrillex that can dominate so much that he gets 5 Grammy nominees, and he's clearly an underground artist.

I'm pushing ahead on my own - you no longer need a large record company to make you a star.

With the new ways of getting music out, you don't need a label if you're a legacy artist.

A lot of very popular mainstream artists are products of record companies and marketing companies, and any time anyone can stand outside of that, that's interesting.