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You have record companies that sign acts that they think are great, and then they never do anything. Acts that they don't think are really going to do much end up having a career. I don't think anyone really knows what it is that drives somebody to get on their computer and want to download a song.

— Jason Aldean

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

And once the music is out there, when you're selling a record and selling music and people are going to do whatever they want with it, it's kind of hard to resist certain opportunities, especially in the record market now.

— Patrick Carney

I don't know what they're thinking about. Just because someone says, 'I like what you do' or something: They might like it today and tomorrow they might not. I've had that experience with record companies.

— Ornette Coleman

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.

— Roger Waters

People are like, 'Wow you started your own record label,' and treat me like I'm some sort of innovative genius, when I'm not at all. You've got the Internet and music - you put them together, and people hear your music.

— Courtney Barnett

Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.

— Zac Brown

I'm all for sharing music, but when people can download a whole record and pay nothing for it and then they share it with 100,000 other people, it's breaking down the whole business.

— Richie Sambora

And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it's catchy, and you've got a little bit of help, I think that's all you need. But there hasn't been that in music.

— Joan Jett

✗Opposing Perspectives

There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.

— Prince

Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.

— Nile Rodgers

Between the record companies being the way they are and the fact that people can just download one song instead of buying a whole album, it's hard to make a good living nowadays.

— Dimebag Darrell