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The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

I started my own record label.

I think all record companies should be run by a musician. Just as you wouldn't trust your health to an electrician.

CMS has a track record of successfully overseeing the many contractors our programs depend on to function. Unfortunately, a subset of those contracts for HealthCare.gov have not met expectations.

Somebody who knows what they're doing, who has a good track record, they come across as very articulate, bright and looking for a challenge - that's absolutely my kind of hire.

At this point I've got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when 'Weird Al' wants to go parody, it's not meant to make them look bad... it's meant to be a tribute.

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

I didn't have a record player.

Consider the track record of your naysayers. How many dreams have they successfully brought into this world?

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.

Empathic, emotionally intelligent work environments have a good track record of increasing creativity, improving problem solving and raising productivity.

I have a 41-year track record of investing excellence… what do you have?

I don't hear record companies coming up with any good ideas or suggestions. Historically, if it ain't their idea, it ain't no good, so you got that to contend with.

The record companies really do conspire against the artists. Especially the black artists

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

McDonald's is almost 50 years old. For 47 years we had a pretty consistent track record of being able to deliver admirable sales.

Records used to be documents, but now record companies want product.

I hear some new artists that sound country but the record labels and country radio lean more toward a more rock feel for what gets signed to a label and played on the radio.

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.

I challenge record companies to show me evidence of a single penny they've lost due to Napster.

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

...Environmental groups are too often alarmists. They have an awful track record, so they've lost credibility with the public.

Record labels today are much less patient: Artists have a bad record, and they're gone.

And looking at today's music scene, I think it's cool that there are a lot of consumers and fans not limited by what radio and the record companies tell them to buy.

The rise of the Internet has caused the demise of the record labels, and has destroyed the music business of old, but it's also created new opportunities for young artists.

Hillary's [Clinton] policies on climate change are a problem too. We ignore her track record at our peril.

I hate record labels. They think they know everything. I want to hear them try to sing it.

We were 6 feet under. A lot of people gave up on us, including fans and critics and show promoters and record labels.

Record labels have enjoyed a 100-year monopoly of selling plastic and now they're up against a different format.

I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.

It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore.

Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big.

In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.

You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.

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.

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.

Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you're its chief executive officer, much of the credit flows to you and you develop a good track record.

Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.

The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.

I just have so much love for my record label.

I think record companies are criminals.

It's all false pressure; you put the heat on yourself, you get it from the networks and record companies and movie studios. You put more pressure on yourself to make everything that much harder.

I think we have a great track record on being relevant, on identifying consumer trends, needs and wants.

I have a long track record of really horrible relationships and a divorce behind me; so I'm not the guy to ask. I just got really fortunate with this one.

Oh, you know record companies. . . at the end of the day, it's business. If you analyse it, you're just a piece of meat. The minute you go bad, it's: 'Next!'.

Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live.

The people who run record companies now wouldn't know a song if it flew up their nose and died. They haven't a clue, and they don't care. You tell them that, and they go, Yeah? So, your point is?

There are no record companies in Waikiki.

It's always push and pull with a record company.