Do not let any record company disturb your creative flow. You are not writing for the record company. You're writing for the public.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I didn't need to depend on the record company to publish my records.
You don't need a record company to turn you into anything.
Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart.
I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.
Record companies would rather you stay dumb, not even think of it as a business, so they can either rip you off or get you out of the way in five years to make way for the new groups.
I don't think that old-fashioned idea of record companies exists any more.
But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.
The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
Mostly I've never let record companies become involved with my music, which was a very smart thing that my first manager Dave Robinson did, to keep them out of it.
The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.