Shura Quotes

I have been fortunate enough to record several singles and a whole album with Chet Atkins.

I've always wanted to produce a whole album for an artist.

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.

Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.

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

I'm a songwriter and I'd love to make that a part of my career.

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'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.

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

I attended a post-college program in L.A. for Music Business and Production. Took several courses involving Music Production, Arrangement, and Songwriting.

My intention when I came into this industry was to be a musician, not necessarily a recording artist, just a musician in general. And that's the reason I went to college and got my degree, which has been great for me. It's helped me a lot with my career.

Growing up as a singer, and a cast member, and now as an adult, a songwriter, I get the luxury of choosing the kinds of songs that I want to sing, because I'll write, you know, hundreds of songs. Even though only 12 appear on the album. That's 12 that I've chosen to sing of my catalog.

As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn't have a day job.

My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.

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.

What made me want to become a recording artist; I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to record with them. That label was Def Jam Records.

I didn't make a solo album until the year 2000.

I love music, so if I wasn't singing, I would probably still be working in the music industry. I love songwriting, so I'd probably be a songwriter.

I had a recording contract with Capitol Records. I loved recording and being in that studio. I made four albums.

I feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music.

I was on mad platinum albums... I produced and wrote on them.

I think I'll be doing music until I die, regardless of whether I'm popular or not. If I ever feel like people aren't receiving my music well anymore, I'll probably go to the backroads and become an executive or just sign artists.

I put out tapes, but I always kept saying, 'Why am I putting all this energy into these tapes?' I was like, 'I'd rather make just an album because I have a vision; I know how I want to do my records.' I always felt like an artist as well.

I never had my mind set on being an entertainer in the music business.

I'm very conscious of the fact that I devoted my life to recording music, recordings and writing songs.