Thelma Houston Quotes

I dropped out of law school when I got my record deal.

It only took me six months to get a record deal, but it took me 20 years to have a hit.

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

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

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 think, back in the day, when I was first starting to make music, all I wanted to do was to get a record deal.

After two years in the songwriting world, I wrote 'All About That Bass.' L.A. Reid heard it and signed me as an artist.

I was signed at 19 years old to a major label, and dropped by the time I was 22.

I took temp jobs, recorded a demo in the evenings and eventually shopped a record deal. All I knew was that I wanted to write songs; thankfully, I also got to sing them.

Actually, we got signed in November of 2000 with Dreamworks which is the most amazing label. We have friends on other labels and though we are not selling millions of records, yet, they treat us with tons of respect and give us some very good guidance.

My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time.

I got a record deal with Sony, and I really just put acting aside. But it's a love.

I am a singer first and foremost. I was lucky enough to have a manager, when I was 15, who knew the heads of a lot of record labels at the time.

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

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.

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

Jimmy Iovine signed me personally to a million-dollar contract, and I lost my identity for a long time. That system is so predicated on making a hit, or you're out of here.

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

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

I'm so glad I didn't go into the big-music industry until I was 19 or 20.

I came to realize that if I was going to succeed in the music industry, I was going to have to learn how to perform my songs myself.

I used to be a Def Jam artist. I was - I survived Def Jam.