Dean Jones Quotes

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.

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

You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins' name on your record as a producer and it was on RCA, you could work the road. It didn't have to be a big hit record, it just had to have that on it.

I made a record album in 1960 and it exploded, and I got all these offers for TV.

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

I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.

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

I'm proud of everything I do, but I think I'm the most happy about becoming a rapper. It was my entrance into everything. That helped me get into acting.

We all kind of dreamed about being musicians, but the narrative around being a musician is it'll never happen to you. It's not something that just happens - one in a million shot - all those things that just make you feel like it'll never happen.

When I was doing 'Hot Shot,' I didn't even have an album deal.

Success happened for me when I dropped my first major label album for Def Jam, 'Live From The Underground.'

I've been singing my whole life and I've always wanted to be able to pursue a music career.

I'm going to start a new career as a singer, I think. I'm going to go the way of Russell Crowe.

I just want to sing, I want to work on my music, I want to make my movies, that's all I want to do.

One thing, when you're an actor, you finish something and then you have to worry about what the next gig is. When you're a musician, you can always write your own stuff, and I'm working on new stuff for a new album right now.

If you get a chance to be in a film, that's great. One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley's album, Building the Perfect Beast.

I wanted to have a go at a pop career. My first single, 'Baby I Don't Care', was a hit, and the second, 'Bye Bye Boy', reached the Top 20.

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

We call 'Ain't No Mountain' the golden egg that landed us at Motown.

I've always gone back and forth between acting and music, but for music I'm not trying to be a pop star - I just like to do it.

First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.

I want to sell out arenas and make an album and work with some of the best artists in the world.

I'd be saying, 'No, I'm so not a DJ, I'm a producer.' But no matter how much faith you may have in yourself, until you have a hit you can't really run around telling everyone you're a producer.

I knew I was destined to be a rock star. I just knew it, like I've always had the power of foresight. I feel right now exactly the way I felt after I finished mixing my first solo album 'New York Groove'.

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.