Soccer Mommy Quotes

Getting a record deal is a meaningless thing now.

I wasn't aware that Track Records were interested in the Bonzos.

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

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

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

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

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

I just think that any person who wants music to be their career shouldn't focus on a record label. I have seen friends who sign to a label too early in their career, and they lost control over their music, and their releases were delayed or never put out.

I put a song on Soundcloud, and Annie Mac made it record of the week, and a month later, I signed my record deal.

I was talking to different labels: Columbia, RCA, Epic. I decided not to sign with Epic even after L.A. Reid offered me a crazy deal.

If a new artist comes, and he doesn't have a good record label to invest in him, then there is no point.

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

I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend that the record industry is an insidious affair. It's this terrible collision between art and commerce, and it will always be that way.

This is a very screwed-up business. Record labels don't sign a lot of bands these days. We just want to find a home and stay there and make records and do our thing and not have to look over our shoulder.

I'm really happy with Elektra, I don't have anything bad to say about them at all. I always knew a major label was the right place for me to be. I never really had an opportunity to go to an independent label anyway.

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.

We turned what is virtually a glorified independent label into one of the powerhouse labels in the town.

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

So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it's great that now, 25 years later, we're not only putting out our own music, but are able to put out music by other bands. That's really exciting for us.

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

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.

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.

There was a bidding war between Epic Records and Jive - now RCA - which was bittersweet. Just having labels bid over me was really cool, but I ended up going with Jive because it felt better over there, and they have my favorite artists like Usher, Chris Brown, and Justin Timberlake.

One of the first groups we signed was the Fifth Dimension.

I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day.