Arcade Fire

“When a record gets as big as, or a band gets as big as Arcade Fire, there's a percentage of people that know what label that record is on, but there's a much bigger percentage of people that don't know and don't care, like, even what a record label is.”

“I think this is gonna, this record's gonna be really, it's gonna do really well. It's gonna sell at least 4000 copies.”

“When we finally reached out to the band, apparently they were on the verge of signing a contract with a Canadian label. And they got out of it and wound up on merge.”

“After we put out the first Arcade Fire album, more than one booking agent called and said, you know, I could have booked that band. I had that CD sitting in a stack of demos on my desk, and I just never listened to it.”

“We go into things trying to keep a rein on, you know, how much money we're spending, because it's the band's money, too, you know? And so, for better or worse, that does put us in a position of not having made the 50,000 records that we could have sold from th…”