Peter Lawford Quotes

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

I would love to continue working behind the scenes in music - to produce and manage up-and-coming musical talent would be a dream!

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

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

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.

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 decided to combine my musical background, business education and creative abilities - and go into the record business.

I just have so much love for my record label.

I know it is common nowadays for artists to start labels but this is a thoroughly constructed vehicle for inspired talent. This is a market that we've been living, breathing and eating for our entire lives - one where a huge void currently exists. Favored Nations is a long-term commitment.

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

Shoot, there's a committee to tell you everything at a record label. You definitely have to know who you are if you want to look like you at the end of the process. We've all seen people get record contracts, and by the time they're spit out by the machine, we don't even recognize them.

I started my own record label.

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

If you want a studio to back you, you want to be doing something that's been done to death!

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.

I am a record executive and I shall be right there in your face with my records.

I'm still involved in the business of Cheap Trick, so I keep my eye on that kind of stuff.

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

I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands.

I got all these books about, like, what you need to know to enter the entertainment industry. And I remember I sent my music to record labels, and I took these little DVDs and sent them all over the place. And either no one got back to me or they just kept saying, 'You're too different.'

Bob Hurwitz, the president of Nonesuch, the company that releases my records, is a mentor. He taught me how to assemble a script to record an album.

Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to start a record label.

The record company didn't know what we looked like at first. They were all excited about our tapes.

I've always wanted to push someone who's not really known but has mad talent. I don't know if I'm going to do a publishing company or a record label, but I'm interested in pushing artists in any sense.

I never had to ask Def Jam for anything.