Hank Williams III Quotes

When you are signed to a major label, everyone wants to have a say in who you are and what you are doing.

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.

It's typical of record companies. They sign you because you're unique, and then they want to put you in a mold so they can sell records.

I don't think the label cares about an album... People just want their number-one record.

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

If I start trying to make a record for what I think could possibly get played on radio, I'm dead.

If anything, I'm the most hesitant to bring on a label. That terrifies me. I think people believe major labels are linked to success. They're absolutely not that.

When you find fame, or you get signed to a record label, it's not what you imagined - because you imagined they would have 100 percent trust or faith in you as an artist. Unfortunately, that's not really the case - it's what sells.

Obviously, my label would want me to be on the radio all the time, but that's not my personal goal.

When I was young, I was offered my first recording contract in 1971 and was offered quite a bit of money if I would change my character and be a '70s version of Cher.

The label doesn't do anything but put your record in the store, that's all they do. And tell you, you don't have a single... and tell you, it's not gonna sell... that's what the label does.

When you don't have a record label and you have been on your own as we have, you can look at all these other ways you can get in touch with other people and get music out there again.

It's such a stupid thing to sign a band and then demand a hit right away to instantly recoup the money. The point is, you have to do it by building your own following, and that is not necessarily done by writing instant hits.

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.

Unless I've got Katy Perry on the cover of my CD, it's going to be tough to sell a lot of records.

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

I started my own record label.

I just want to keep saturating the market and radio with as many hit records as I can.

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

My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time.

It seems that for all of the artists signed to a major, there exists the same amount of artists that are struggling to break through to the surface within the label. I think, ideally, we'd end up with a very well connected competent indie team that will be along with us for the ride, however long that ride may be.

In the middle of 'Bleed Red' coming out, a huge disproportionate majority of people in radio came to us and asked if they could have 'Cost of Livin' as a single. There was even talk behind closed doors about pulling 'Bleed Red' because they had caught wind and heard 'Cost of Livin'.' We went with that.

If you want a studio to back you, you want to be doing something that's been done to death!

Record companies worrying more about market share than developing artists - I hear there was a time when if your first record didn't sell 8m copies, you were still given a chance to grow as a songwriter.