Top 1200 Record Deal Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I've had a record deal before and I was willing to do whatever they wanted me to do and I thought that would be it. By the end of it, you know, I hated myself.

I don't have anything to prove anymore. I don't have a record deal, no one has any expectations, I'm in a position of freedom. I don't need anyone's approval.

I wanted to be part of pop culture, so I started songwriting, and I got signed to my first record deal.

I was a total nerd and had, like, two friends, and then I left my school and got signed to a record deal.

The artist is the lowest form of life on the rung of the ladder. The publishers are usually businessmen who deal with businessmen. They deal with promotional people. They deal with financial people. They deal with accountants. They deal with people who work on higher levels. They deal with tax people, but have absolutely no interest in artists, in individual artists, especially very young artists.

I got a record deal with Sony, and I really just put acting aside. But it's a love.

I had my own booth at Fan Fair when I was 9 or 10 years old. I made a little record and I had a manager in Missouri, so we came up to Fan Fair to sell those records and try to get me a record deal. Clearly it wasn't meant to be at 10 years old, but my memory is that I went to use the bathroom, and I met Sylvia. I was in shock.

When I first got the record deal, I thought it felt like I won the lottery. But I always worked hard at it.

The minute we first started recording 'Defend Yourself,' I thought, 'Yeah. We're going to have to deal with a really terrible review from Pitchfork for this record.'

Before I had a record deal, I was living in New York and playing anywhere I could, from somebody's house to an open mic to coffeeshops.

I've always known, before I had a record deal, that the thing is to go out and put on the show. I've been doing that from day one.

You're just so excited that you have this record deal or this movie opportunity that you don't stand up for yourself and say, This is what I want to do.

Now my record deal helps me to do things for free or give more time to my community than I could otherwise.

I don't know one Jewish person that doesn't want to have a deal, a good deal, a proper deal, but a really good deal.

I'm openly gay, and I've got a major label record deal in Nashville, and it happened when I was 42 years old. It's not supposed to happen that way.

I think, back in the day, when I was first starting to make music, all I wanted to do was to get a record deal.

I believe that Brexit, whether it's a bad deal or no deal, is a big deal - too big for anyone to ignore - but it's not a done deal.

Even before I got the record deal, I never really used singing to get girls. I always felt weird about that.

'Record Without A Cover' was about allowing the medium to come through, making a record that was not a document of a performance but a record that could change with time, and would be different from one copy to the next.

[Sandy] Kress says [Betsy] DeVos's record on school choice in Michigan sealed the deal.

With a Grammy, if you're releasing your record with a major label, you have a chance with any record. You also have a very long shot with every record.

I just like making music. Record, record, record.

At the end of the day, you sign a record deal and you understand where it could go if you had the right song.

I have a great family that loves me, a record deal at 14, and I get to do what I love every day.

A development deal is where they're giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they'll put an album out.

I keep in touch with these people who knew me long before I got a record deal.

To drive though the streets of Manhattan to sign a record deal was like a movie. It was crazy - pretty hard to put into words.

Well, I tried to get a record deal in 1966 or '67, and everyone thought I was too eclectic.

I started DJing, breakdancing and MCing in the '70s and I got my record deal in 1979 with 'Christmas Rap.'

I’m half crazy but I know the Devil real. I should know, I signed a record deal.

I put a list together. It was like: Get health insurance, get a car, get a bigger apartment, travel more, get a record deal, get a publishing deal, sell 10,000 units, be a part of a No. 1 album, make a million dollars. I got to check off 90 percent of the stuff last year. I hit some serious landmarks in 2015.

I think, actually, I was the first person to ever sign a simultaneous video and recording deal with a record company.

The first record was basically a quick, fast record. The second record, we were going for more of a poppier sound - like a heavy pop sound. For 'Rocket to Russia,' we'd sort of reached our pinnacle. We'd gotten really good at what we were doing, so that's like my favorite record - that's a really good record. It's just great from beginning to end.

I walked out of the Chinese restaurant with a fat check, a record deal, and a box of shrimp egg foo yung!

When I first tried to get a record deal for my original music, labels didn’t understand what these instruments were meant to be doing

Record Without A Cover' was about allowing the medium to come through, making a record that was not a document of a performance but a record that could change with time, and would be different from one copy to the next.

I grew up listening to everything, and when I got signed to a record deal out of Nashville, that was my introduction to what was happening in country music.

To actually get together and make a band record feels like a bit of a big deal, and that can be quite daunting when you're musicians.

When I was growing up, my mother would always say, 'It will go on your permanent record.' There was no 'permanent record.' If there were a 'permanent record,' I'd never be able to be a lawyer. I was such a bum in elementary school and high school... There is a permanent record today, and it's called the Internet.

As long as we keep learning new music and getting better musically, there's a good chance that the record deal won't change anything.

When I signed my first record deal, I brought it over to my lawyer to look over.

You do a deal - business deal, real estate deal, stock deal - protect yourself at all times. I got that from boxing. That's from A to Z: that covers everything in life. And it started when I heard it in the ring. They don't say that in basketball or football or any other sport that I know of but boxing.

I'm not desperate to sign, like, a record deal. I'm very hungry, but I'm just not desperate for it.

I got a publishing deal with BMG, they were supportive, and some money to record demos

When I was 17, I signed my record deal and passed my driver's test. It was a very good year!

It don't make sense: either you a soldier from the start, Or a actor with a record deal tryin' to play the part.

Making a record's really hard. You deal with the money stuff - you never have the budget you need. You're working with so many egos.

I'm never going to be a woman who doesn't work. At 12 I was emancipated from my parents so I could sign my first record deal. I think I was born working!

When I was growing up, my mother would always say, 'It will go on your permanent record.' There was no 'permanent record.' If there were a 'permanent record,' I'd never be able to be a lawyer. I was such a bum, in elementary school and high school... There is a permanent record today and it's called the Internet.

When you get your first record deal, you will do anything, because you just want to sing.

I never thought in my wildest dreams I'd ever be offered a record deal, and to get a Christmas No. 1 would be huge for any performer, let alone an ex-footballer.

'Back 2 Da Basics' was my way of saying I'm done and out of the streets and I'm going to get a record deal and be a rapper for real.

I tried out for American Idol, I got a record deal, and now it's like my best days are ahead of me.

I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn't even expect to get a record deal.

I can't believe I got a major-label record deal. My music was quirky, and my voice was so odd and high and girlish, it was like a weird novelty act.

The Roots - we signed our first record deal when I was about 19 years old.

Originally, I thought of being a photographer and nearly went to art school, but I got a record deal instead.

This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.

I had this dream that you get this record deal, and you're a star, and everybody loves you - but I was a youngster, and it didn't work out that way.

I don't think that much anymore in terms of 'write a record, record a record, tour a record,' because in my own mind, things have changed, in that I'm just an ongoing artist. I'm not quite sure what the next project needs to be until it presents himself, and then I know. I just follow dutifully while I'm being led.