Avril Lavigne Quotes

Artist development is something that I've been passionate about from my days at Uptown and Motown Records.

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.

I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.

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.'

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

I had to get out of my record deal that I signed with my previous band and get a full solo record deal going so, with all of the paperwork that, that entails it did take a while.

I have inherited two of the most important brands in hip-hop, Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella. Reid and Universal Music Group have given me the opportunity to manage the companies I have contributed to my whole career. I feel this is a giant step for me and the entire artist community.

I was signed to A&M, I was signed to Lou Adler, who had a company within a company, which was A&M Records, and everything - James Taylor, Rita Coolidge, Carole King - I worked on all of that stuff.

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

I certainly don't want to be a record label guy.

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.

If you have good songs and a real desire to make music, the next thing to do, instead of approach record companies, is to get yourself a really good manager because then it allows you to focus on your profession of being a musician. Then they can focus on the darker art of the record label and the music industry.

I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me.

Island Records was the first record label to... acknowledge me. After that, quickly, Republic Records, and then Atlantic Records, Sony Records and Warner Bros. It was all the labels at once. It was absolutely insane, like, knowing that this many record labels were interested in me.

David Bendeth was introduced to me by an entertainment lawyer friend.

If it wasn't for the TLC story, many artists would not have smartened up, and you wouldn't have the Lil Waynes and people with their own labels.

I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don't think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me.

The Shades never recorded anything, Little Daddy and the Bachelors recorded a couple of records, ya.

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.

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 have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers.

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

I'm recording another demo for another batch of record labels that we'll shop it around to.

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