Gunther Schuller Quotes

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

I just have so much love for my record label.

I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company.

The record companies don't give you a chance, like in the old days when they went, 'Here's a pile of money. Go make a good record!'

Getting a record deal is a meaningless thing now.

I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend that the record industry is an insidious affair. It's this terrible collision between art and commerce, and it will always be that way.

If you're part of a record company, you're a manufactured product. It doesn't mean that you're not talented.

The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.

Motown's policy was to build one act at a time or their favorites.

So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it's great that now, 25 years later, we're not only putting out our own music, but are able to put out music by other bands. That's really exciting for us.

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.

You don't want the biggest record deal as far as money goes, you just want to make sure that the people at the label really support your band and the music and stuff.

I have just enough people paying attention that I have the freedom to be in charge. And I have a great record company - Nonesuch understands what I'm about.

Doing things in my day was simple: you either signed to a big label or you signed to a very small label, and you worked with that one, and then they eventually signed you on to a big one.

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

The Shades never recorded anything, Little Daddy and the Bachelors recorded a couple of records, ya.

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

I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labels weren't that interested in me, and the smaller labels didn't have any money to do anything.

My first record deal was an independent record deal back in 1995 or early 1996.

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.

You rarely get money out of labels, except for when they open up a budget for a project. Other than that, it's a do-or-die type thing.

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

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

Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business.

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.