Connor Franta Quotes

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

This is truly a blessing. Breyon Prescott, Peter Edge and Tom Corson believe in me and have introduced me to a home that also believes and knows exactly what to do with the type of music I'm doing.

I just have so much love for my record label.

I was with PolyGram; that was the big label that I was with for the longest, like 12 years.

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

I once worked at a record label called London Records. The company was owned by Roger Ames, one of the most successful figures in the British music industry. Roger always placed a value on loafing, on holidays, on not being in the office all the time.

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 want to have a publishing company and a record label, and I want to manage five artists... eventually.

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

I'm not interested in anything besides making some good music, helping some artists, being an executive. I'm pretty happy with that.

When I was 17-years-old, I was in the music business.

When I was young, I was offered my first recording contract in 1971 and was offered quite a bit of money if I would change my character and be a '70s version of Cher.

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.

I don't really like meetings, I like recording and performing music. I need to set myself up for when the time does come that I need better distribution or just a bigger team behind me.

If you're part of a record company, you're a manufactured product. It doesn't mean that you're not talented.

If I was rich enough, I would love to launch my own record label. I would love to try and give all my musically talented friends a start in the industry.

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.

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 TV. I love being behind the scenes on a TV show but there's something about, I don't know there's something very special when you've signed an artist and that first record comes in and it's a good record. It is an indescribable feeling.

I did my thing with Jive. I was a national recording artist, but I had run into a wall.

Shady's great; I love Shady Records.

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

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

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.

I've been through the entire gamut of the music industry - I've been playing in clubs since I was 14, and I've been on Warner Bros, on Sony - I've had lots of successes and some serious times of struggle.