Stefflon Don Quotes

I'm not desperate to sign, like, a record deal. I'm very hungry, but I'm just not desperate for it.

A record deal is my dream.

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.

Well, I had a record deal since I was 18, and it got me where I am.

I knew what I wanted to be, but I didn't know exactly how to get there. I thought you move to Nashville, you sing downtown, and someone discovers you, and you become a country music star. I had no idea.

I took temp jobs, recorded a demo in the evenings and eventually shopped a record deal. All I knew was that I wanted to write songs; thankfully, I also got to sing them.

I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.

At 18, I finally came into a relationship with a record label. My family got back on its feet. I was happy.

When you get a record deal, you got to be pretty headstrong, know your direction.

When I got my deal with Cash Money, it changed my whole life.

It was actually really hard to get a record deal after 'American Idol.'

My number one goal is to take over the music business and run a really great record company.

I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business.

I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.

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.

We had an EP out and all of a sudden we find record companies are interested in us, and we're thinking, 'Oh, that's really nice, but we don't think we're ready for it.'

I'm really happy with Elektra, I don't have anything bad to say about them at all. I always knew a major label was the right place for me to be. I never really had an opportunity to go to an independent label anyway.

I was kicked off a record label and didn't get picked up again. It was devastating at first because I thought, 'Oh my God. My career is over. What's gonna happen? What am I going to do?' Once I got that I could have a career, a very good career, without having a hit record, then I changed.

Well, I tried to get a record deal in 1966 or '67, and everyone thought I was too eclectic.

I'd done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never thought I'd have a record label.

I want to be the president of Columbia Records, maybe C.E.O. - kind of like L.A. Reid.

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.

It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that people are paid tremendous money to sing.

The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich.

Drake was a fan before a friend. He already was a Cash Money millionaire. When opportunity came, maybe we put the most on the table. That was my thinking because I just thought that this was a very talented young man. We saw a future with him, so it was about him being comfortable.