Snoh Aalegra Quotes

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

I was with PolyGram; that was the big label that I was with for the longest, like 12 years.

I was initially signed to a German label a few years ago.

By the age of 17, for me, we had got an recording contract, and, boom, I was gone.

Jimmy Iovine signed me personally to a million-dollar contract, and I lost my identity for a long time. That system is so predicated on making a hit, or you're out of here.

When I was 13, I was saying that I wanted to be signed to a label. I was begging my dad to get me signed with somebody.

To be honest, when you grow up in the music business, people heard me sing from a young age, and you get offered development deals and things like that.

I've been with Def Jam Records for five years and they gave me my first recording contract so for that I'm forever grateful.

When I was 17-years-old, I was in the music business.

When I was young, I was offered my first recording contract in 1971 and was offered quite a bit of money if I would change my character and be a '70s version of Cher.

Artist development is something that I've been passionate about from my days at Uptown and Motown Records.

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

This is truly a blessing. Breyon Prescott, Peter Edge and Tom Corson believe in me and have introduced me to a home that also believes and knows exactly what to do with the type of music I'm doing.

I would love to continue working behind the scenes in music - to produce and manage up-and-coming musical talent would be a dream!

I was actually signed at a very young age - I was 12 - and one thing led to another, and I ended up in a mutual split from the label. But it was probably the best thing that could have ever happened, because I was able to kind of leave the industry side of it for a minute and focus on the independent side.

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.

After two years in the songwriting world, I wrote 'All About That Bass.' L.A. Reid heard it and signed me as an artist.

My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time.

My first record deal was an independent record deal back in 1995 or early 1996.

What made me want to become a recording artist; I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to record with them. That label was Def Jam Records.

I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fired, and I'd be left with the record company. And then - because they got fired - the record company wouldn't do anything for me.

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

When I was 19 I had a record deal.

After university, I set out to see if I could make a career in music. It was a tough journey at first, but by the time I was 23 I'd been signed by A&M Records.

I had a publishing deal way before I had a record deal.