It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label...Most people don't have any dignity in the first place. Kurt Cobain
If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes. Dave Van Ronk
If you're not on a major label today, you're not gonna get played. They've got the market sewed up. Mickey Gilley
Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign. Robyn Hitchcock
You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way. Mary Chapin Carpenter
I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous. Neko Case