Hayley Orrantia Quotes

I was signed to A&M, I was signed to Lou Adler, who had a company within a company, which was A&M Records, and everything - James Taylor, Rita Coolidge, Carole King - I worked on all of that stuff.

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

I was kicked off a record label and didn't get picked up again. It was devastating at first because I thought, 'Oh my God. My career is over. What's gonna happen? What am I going to do?' Once I got that I could have a career, a very good career, without having a hit record, then I changed.

Doing things in my day was simple: you either signed to a big label or you signed to a very small label, and you worked with that one, and then they eventually signed you on to a big one.

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 love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me.

Since I was 17, I had been just making records and promoting them.

I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.

You know, Simon he's an artist representative, but Randy and Paula actually were in the industry as artists so they had, you know, the information that they offered to us from their aspect.

Jimmy Iovine has been telling me since 2012 that I needed to start my own label with my own artists. This was when he first met me and 'Bandz a Make Her Dance' was first taking off.

In 1985, I went to work for MTM Records, Mary Tyler Moore's Nashville record label, and stayed three years. After that, I spent two years as an independent promoter, then worked for MCA Nashville Records, DreamWorks Nashville, and Universal Music Nashville.

A lot of people are trying to get me to go solo. It's just a thing I have to deal with a lot. Record labels are always trying to get me to go solo.

I have a lot of musician friends. I worked in radio as a music director, and I know everybody hears about the George Straits and the Garth Brooks and the Kenny Chesneys and all that, but for every major star, there are thousands who didn't quite make it.

After giving countless hit songs, I felt saturated. I decided to do music only for my own films and music albums. And so, I decided to start my own music label.

I want to have a publishing company and a record label, and I want to manage five artists... eventually.

Just because I run an indie label doesn't mean I don't think Jay-Z is nice.

Even to be flown out to New York was mind boggling for me, and signing with Columbia was great because they really understood my vision. Of all the labels that I met, they were the ones that really seemed to understand that I was really about the music, the writing, and the lyrics, so it was really fulfilling to sign with them.

I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business.

There's artists that I'm working with on a new label of mine. Foxy Nova and Supa Nova.

So there was a way for you to get promoted and survive as an artist without worrying about AM radio hits.

The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.

I certainly don't want to be a record label guy.

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

I'd done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never thought I'd have a record label.

I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones.