Muddy Waters Quotes

I think that becoming a successful rock band is a little like becoming a professional athlete. Nobody plans on it.

I was 19 when I wrote 'Dreams,' and that would have been when it started to happen. The band got signed, and I was probably beginning to see different things besides my small town of Ballybricken.

I got a chance to get an actual label. I performed this slow song, this ballad I have. I just remember going to the first woman I saw in the room and just getting on my knees holding her hand just singing. And I was like, you know what, I got to just sell it. I remember that day they were like, yo we want to sign you. [After] I went into the bathroom, I started crying, [and] I called my mom. I was like momma – I did it.

Music's always been a huge part of my life, and my first record came out in 1981.

The first time I met Beyonce she was about 18 years old, sitting in a makeup chair eating fried chicken, and I knew it was only a matter of time before everyone would know her name.

I've toured the U.S. every single year and I've put a record out every single year whether it was on a major label or not; that doesn't make any difference to me.

I was one of the first artists to make a buzz about '106 & Park.' If it wasn't for that show, I wouldn't be the entertainer that I am today.

I made a dollar a day sweeping a laundry out. Then we made a record that was number two in Los Angeles. We got so excited hearing it on the radio that Carl threw up.

Way before we got a record deal, we were playing clubs seven nights a week, three one-hour sets a night. Then we got the record deal, and we took off on the road and stayed out.

Following in the footsteps of Berry Gordy, I always admire what he did.

When I first came to Def Jam, in '06, all we ever did was win, put up big numbers.

At 18, I finally came into a relationship with a record label. My family got back on its feet. I was happy.

It wasn't the muso thing that got me recognition in the beginning. It was doing 'Wild Thing.'

When Rick Ross made 'Hustlin',' Rick Ross also helped those producers become some of the biggest producers in the world.

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

I've been able to experience so many things since I've had my record deal.

When I got my deal with Cash Money, it changed my whole life.

I got really noticed by record labels and that's how I got signed.

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

Having a Top 10 record changed my life a lot, you know?

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

We've been playing together since we were 13, and from the age of 18, we've had a record contract. I think that we've been incredibly lucky, yeah. But we deserve it.

It was actually really hard to get a record deal after 'American Idol.'

When I went to college, I made my first mixtape, and Sean gave me three verses for it. That was a big reason anyone ever listened to my music. I definitely wouldn't be talking to you now if it wasn't for Big Sean.

We came up with all these crazy ideas that Taylor Swift could be the biggest artist in the world - and it came true - and that we could have five labels and become the biggest independent record company in the world - and it came true.