Gabrielle Aplin Quotes

If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!

A lot of things encouraged me to start my label. I think it's very important for an artist to know how many records they've sold and where they've sold. I know that I have never been treated the way I'm supposed to be treated - like an artist. That's why I do things for myself. I feel like I'm a free man.

Everything about the music industry takes away from you as an artist. They're always wondering what the next thing is: 'What do you have?' It's a very introverted process.

Every musician in the known universe has signed a bad piece of paper, myself included. But it's really very simple. You're the artist. It's your picture that's going on the CD cover, nobody else's. Protect yourself. Get a good lawyer. You'll kick yourself later if you don't.

With Pavement, we had no managers and never had a lawyer. We got lucky with not signing any bad deals.

I find it so funny how people that don't write the music, and have no involvement in it, can make such huge decisions on behalf of artists.

You can be more creative when you're not feeling like a slave. When you're on a record label, they have you like that.

My strongest message is: 'Never give your songs away. Never sign a contract you can't get out of.'

Once you're signed to a label you compromise.

When it came time to be a professional rapper, I wouldn't sign anything without reading it. There was no way I was going to have people make decisions for me or wake up one day and find that I was broke because I never bothered to read a contract.

You can now be a master of your own destiny. I'm not sure why you would sign up with a record label.

I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in.

I guess I've learned that there's really no such thing as a bad label, there is only a bad contract.

There isn't a single artist out there, I'm sure, who wouldn't take the most perfect record deal. If the right record deal came along, like, the perfect deal, we'd definitely take it.

I'm the only girl songwriter that fights for a lot of things. I fight for songwriting fees, which record labels want you to shut up about.

To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didn't sign to Atlantic just for the money.

We'll look at a bunch of deals that are being offered to us, and we decide where to go and continue on I guess. It's not too early to start considering our options with other labels.

I hate record labels. They think they know everything. I want to hear them try to sing it.

I wanted out of my record deal with EMI. They wanted me to record one type of album; I wanted to record the type of music I wanted to make.

The first time Kyuss was about to get signed, they're like, 'We'd like to sign you!' and we just said, 'No! Forget it!' because we thought people were always trying to invade everything.

I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it.

When a record co. finds a guy now, they want to own everything. They want to own the rights to market that person's particular name. They want a piece of the action all the way through.

Any artist manages his own business along with his manager. Every band should.

I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I'd have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do.

Make sure you know what you are signing when you sign a recording contract.