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Shoot, there's a committee to tell you everything at a record label. You definitely have to know who you are if you want to look like you at the end of the process. We've all seen people get record contracts, and by the time they're spit out by the machine, we don't even recognize them.

— Gary Allan

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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.

— Al Jourgensen

You know, if nobody knows who you are, nobody's going to buy your record.

— Trent Reznor

There are a lot of obligations when you put out a record and it does well. People want to talk to you, which is nice. So then you make sure you do that.

— Wesley Schultz

When I did the record, I was coming off a time when my contract had been sold and the music industry had changed a lot. I didn't understand how to make records for big labels. I was waiting for a new kind of record label to emerge.

— Matthew Sweet

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

— Estelle

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

— Sean Parker

I made this record without a record label.

— Jules Shear

Traditionally with debut albums, labels insist on a face, so people know who you are.

— Fleur East

When I first started out in the music industry and went to Elektra Records, I didn't go to be an artist, I went to get a record label started. And they said in order to have a label deal, I had to be an artist - so that's what I did.

— Missy Elliott

More labels should be like that. Instead of putting these records out myself, I should have just signed with them, but they probably don't like my music (laughs).

— Matthew Sweet

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