#record deal

I'm one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tried to get a record deal. ↗

— Michelle Shocked

#deal #few #get #i #never

I had to get out of my record deal that I signed with my previous band and get a full solo record deal going so, with all of the paperwork that, that entails it did take a while. ↗

— Sebastian Bach

#deal #did #entails #full #get

I had pretty much raised my kids and my first wife and I were divorced, so I began, in earnest, to start my musical career again. Going for the big record deal and all of that. ↗

— Jimmy Carl Black

#began #big #career #deal #divorced

People think when you get a record deal all your problems will go away. We know that the bigger we get, the more problems we'll have. I guess Puff Daddy was somewhat - what's the word? - prophetic in that respect. ↗

— Brad Delson

#bigger #daddy #deal #get #go

I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company. ↗

— Jay-Z

#because #beginning #businessman #ceo #company

I was turning 20 during my first record. Those decade birthdays always kind of cause me, it seems, to reflect, look back, and then look forward. I just was closing this period of my life where I was living in a car and scrambling my whole life to then signing a six-record deal with Atlantic. ↗

— Jewel

#atlantic #back #birthdays #car #cause

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. ↗

— Solange Knowles

#excited #i #just #movie #opportunity

Well, I had a record deal since I was 18, and it got me where I am. ↗

— Shelby Lynne

#deal #got #had #i #i am

You don't want the biggest record deal as far as money goes, you just want to make sure that the people at the label really support your band and the music and stuff. ↗

— Adam Rich

#band #biggest #deal #far #goes

When I signed a record deal, I was always told by execs I needed to be like everybody else, that I had to show my midriff, things that would take away from who I want to be as an artist. ↗

— Jessica Simpson

#artist #away #deal #else #everybody