Glenn Tipton Quotes

In those days it was pretty cut and dry. If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road.

I always saw being in a band a full time job.

Yeah, man I am going to be writing a book soon. The reality of being in a rock band in the music business'.

We never set out to be this punk rock band that's going to stay small and tour in a van forever. We wanted to take our band to a level where we could do everything we want to do.

My band got signed in high school when I was 16, and we all dropped out of high school and went on tour. Then I quit the band because I was the manager, and I was doing everything, so I went solo.

You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way.

Most of the people I know in bands, all they are concerned about is getting to do the next record.

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 had to make a drastic change at Sun Records and I didn't really appreciate country music until I went there.

I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star.

Pantera is the only band I've ever been in, and at the start we used to play covers to make a living.

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.

Any artist manages his own business along with his manager. Every band should.

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

Mark Winchester has left the band. He's decided that he's tired of the road and just wants to concentrate on his career in Nashville. I don't blame him at all. He'll certainly be missed.

The thing is that I've known the guys from Motley Crue longer than just about everybody.

I started touring a little bit in 1973 in support of a record I made for an independent label. In 1975, when I signed with Warner Bros., where I remained happily ensconced for the next 24 years, my touring activity increased considerably.

I think we all appreciate it now just how lucky we are to be in a band like Judas Priest.

Friends of friends had bands in college or in their early 20s and had a moment where they had some kind of interest from a record label or manager. It's always interesting how people handle those decisions and those moments.

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 was initially signed to a German label a few years ago.

At 17, I signed a recording contract right out of high school, so I started touring and traveling the world. I sort of missed out on the college experience.

Before moving to Pennsylvania in 1999, I played bass in a newsroom rock band in South Florida for several years.

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

Way before we got a record deal, we were playing clubs seven nights a week, three one-hour sets a night. Then we got the record deal, and we took off on the road and stayed out.