When I Did The Record, I Was Coming Off A Time When My Contract Had Been Sold And The Music Industry Had Changed A Lot. I Didn't Understand How To Make Records For Big Labels. I Was Waiting For A New Kind Of Record Label To Emerge. - SearchQuotes

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When I did the record, I was coming off a time when my contract had been sold and the music industry had changed a lot. I didn't understand how to make records for big labels. I was waiting for a new kind of record label to emerge.

Matthew Sweet

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