Maia Mitchell Quotes

I made this record without a record label.

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.

When you don't have a record label and you have been on your own as we have, you can look at all these other ways you can get in touch with other people and get music out there again.

I was actually signed at a very young age - I was 12 - and one thing led to another, and I ended up in a mutual split from the label. But it was probably the best thing that could have ever happened, because I was able to kind of leave the industry side of it for a minute and focus on the independent side.

I'm one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tried to get a record deal.

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

I've been able to experience so many things since I've had my record deal.

When we started playing our music, there weren't really many bigger punk bands. We wrote for ourselves. We weren't expecting to get a record deal or get on the radio.

I'm an independent. I've signed with no label.

I'm not with a label, so I haven't ever felt pressure to be a certain way. I've got a cool team who just love music.

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.

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

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

You can now be a master of your own destiny. I'm not sure why you would sign up with a record label.

That's my favorite subject because it really levels the playing field for artists these days. You don't have to sell out to the record company. You don't have to get a five hundred thousand dollars, or whatever, and pay them back for the rest of your life to record a record.

As an independent artist, you're always figuring out how you're going to fund your next album.

To go indie is a thing. But to put an album in the stores, you need a distribution label.

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

I started singing when I was 18 and landed my first record deal with RCA when I was 26 after a lot of grafting singing in pubs and clubs.

I started my own record label.

I would advise anyone starting out as a singer/songwriter to play live as much possible. You never know who might be in the audience.

I'm an indie artist with major distribution, so one foot in the extreme major music business and one foot in the abyss of indie artists.

I'm pushing ahead on my own - you no longer need a large record company to make you a star.

Things began to pick up for me record-wise when in 1971 I wrote 'She's a Lady' for Tom Jones.

More labels should be like that. Instead of putting these records out myself, I should have just signed with them, but they probably don't like my music (laughs).