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The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.

— John Lydon

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

A record company used to be a very good thing, but they ended up soul-destroyingly trapping people in the accounting department. And you couldn't get any further, and the heads of each department were changing all the time, so you couldn't have any permanent relationship within the corporation.

— John Lydon

People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.

— Adam Ant

Those record companies don't know what's happening at all.

— Ritchie Blackmore

Records are made to be broken.

— Terry Vaughn

Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasn't it would be some kind of failure.

— Roland Gift

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

— Edwin Starr

Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart.

— Leif Garrett

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.

— Graham Parker

I don't think that old-fashioned idea of record companies exists any more.

— Sophie Ellis-Bextor

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

— Paul Simon