Johnny Mathis Quotes

I just have so much love for my record label.

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

I actually re-signed with Warner Bros. on my own. They've been really good to us and all the people over there are great; they love me and I love them. So I'm just sticking with them.

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

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

It's not like it used to be where everybody has a record company to belong to.

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

That's my favorite subject because it really levels the playing field for artists these days. You don't have to sell out to the record company. You don't have to get a five hundred thousand dollars, or whatever, and pay them back for the rest of your life to record a record.

I have just enough people paying attention that I have the freedom to be in charge. And I have a great record company - Nonesuch understands what I'm about.

I was signed by L.A. Reid on Arista Records when I was 16. He understood me and believed in me. Arista folded and I got put on RCA or whatever, then there were new people there, and every six months it changes and more new people come in.

I don't want a record company, but I need one, unfortunately.

HAG Records, is a company that I've owned. I've had a couple of gospel releases on it. We developed a pretty good distribution setup there and we do have something to use in case they don't want to sign us.

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

I'm from Israel, so America has no limits. I started a record label, and then I started managing other artists, like Liza Minelli.

I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company.

I once worked at a record label called London Records. The company was owned by Roger Ames, one of the most successful figures in the British music industry. Roger always placed a value on loafing, on holidays, on not being in the office all the time.

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

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

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 feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music.

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

If anything, I'm the most hesitant to bring on a label. That terrifies me. I think people believe major labels are linked to success. They're absolutely not that.

Roc was only supposed to be our distributor, but then they ended up recruiting me as the label's artist. They said they really liked my album 'Everything You Wanted.'

When you get a record deal, you got to be pretty headstrong, know your direction.

I had every major label in the world - I mean, any label that dealt with rap music wanted to sign me. I ended up going with Jive Records because I liked everything about 'em.