A Quote by Hayley Orrantia

I am a singer first and foremost. I was lucky enough to have a manager, when I was 15, who knew the heads of a lot of record labels at the time.

Hayley Orrantia

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Hayley Orrantia
American - Actress
Born: February 21, 1994

When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.

Agnetha Faltskog

People don't know how to reach record labels, and a lot of time labels don't listen to stuff that's sent in randomly.

Perez Hilton

I think the 360 deals are what stands out to me, first and foremost. I never would have dreamed that record labels would be taking a piece of touring, merchandise, and everything else. The world has changed so dramatically from when we first started.

Jay DeMarcus

To see a lot of the smaller labels disappear or get gobbled up by the bigger labels, that’s a shame. It was a bit of a shock at first to see the demise of the record stores.

Phil Collins

To see a lot of the smaller labels disappear or get gobbled up by the bigger labels, that's a shame. It was a bit of a shock at first to see the demise of the record stores.

Phil Collins

I am a singer, first and foremost, but the medium happens to be the cello.

Kevin Olusola

I took the song The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face from a folk singer called Bonnie Dobson. I knew her and she had a record with that track on it.

Gordon Lightfoot

Before I was 14, I wanted to be a singer, an actor, or a hockey player. By 15, I knew I was going to be a singer.

Matisyahu

We strongly oppose warning labels on cigarette packs for several reasons: first and foremost, warning labels may improperly imply that it has been scientifically established that smoking causes disease

R. J. Reynolds

I'm not just a singer of funny songs; I am basically, first and foremost, a musician. I'm always recording all styles of music.

Ray Stevens

Island Records was the first record label to... acknowledge me. After that, quickly, Republic Records, and then Atlantic Records, Sony Records and Warner Bros. It was all the labels at once. It was absolutely insane, like, knowing that this many record labels were interested in me.

Shawn Mendes

I think I've been lucky enough to have had an extended adolescence. I'm a lot like I was when I was 15.

Ariel Pink

When we did a lot of that Motown stuff there were four of us on the front line. When we started the evening we'd start from one end of the band and just go along. The lead singer would change all the time. That's the first time that I actually managed to put it into a record.

Roy Wood

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

When I was 15, I had lucky underwear. When that failed, I had a lucky hairdo, then a lucky race number, even lucky race days. After 15 years, I've found the secret to success is hard work.