Tori Kelly Quotes

Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.

When I was 19 I had a record deal.

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.

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

I actually got signed when I was 14 with Sony Sweden. Things didn't really work out with that, but I'm glad I had the opportunity to be exposed to the industry at a young age.

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

I have had the good fortune to experience both the limelight and the traffic light as a musician. I did my first recording on my own and it was available at concerts. The second to seventh were released on small and then large labels. My eighth to 14th were done under my own steam once again, but with the benefit of the Internet.

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

I made this record without a record label.

I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it.

I started my own record label.

We went into that knowing that we were never going to sell a major record 'cause we didn't sound like these bands, so I just thought this was an opportunity for us to make the kind of records that we wanted and make some money at the same time.

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

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 don't see myself ever being in a position where I need to sign to a label.

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

That's the best thing about being with an indie label, it feels like a family. If it's a major label, they put so much pressure on every single.

I did my first album with my own record label.

It's great to be able to find a way to release your music and do what you want to do artistically and not have to just worry about being accepted by the major label industry.

The cool thing about G.O.O.D. Music is it's a bunch of great ideas, and I'm one of those ideas.

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.'

In my music career, I never was interested in working and writing and creating songs based on what kind of rewards I could receive in return - a hit song, per se, is what most contemporary artists have to deal with when they deal with a label.

I've started my own record label - Jeepney Music - and I want to put out my own stuff and also stuff by other Filipino artists.

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