Jon Secada Quotes

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

We turned what is virtually a glorified independent label into one of the powerhouse labels in the town.

I certainly don't want to be a record label guy.

I remember telling the head of Warner Brothers that if they'd just make a video for 'Ol' Red'... and if it didn't work, they could drop me from the label.

I don't want a record company, but I need one, unfortunately.

I just have so much love for my record label.

I think that there will always be artists out there who think they need to sign a major label deal in order to be successful. And that machine is what is going to work for them - there's tons of examples of pop stars who need that machine.

I know being on a major label is meant to be antiquated, but we're fine with it.

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

I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers.

I should be the one to say what I do. It's just not done that way anymore in Nashville, and I can't do it the other way. That's how our record label came about.

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.

The last album, 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run.' I was really proud of, but then I didn't actually know whether it was going to come out on any label at all. So I didn't know if anyone was going to hear it. Then of course we ended up doing another EP after that called 'Closer.'

I am going into the adult market because they don't care what label you are signed to or who you know.

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

If you had ever heard my album you would know that I could never consider the music business!

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

If I start trying to make a record for what I think could possibly get played on radio, I'm dead.

My passion is music, you know, and music influences culture, influences lifestyle, which leads me to 'Roc-A-Wear'. I was forced to be an entrepreneur, so that led me to be CEO of 'Roc-A-Fella' records, which lead to Def Jam.

The signing of the Sex Pistols was a turning point for Virgin. It put the company on the map and, over the years, attracted bands such as Genesis, the Rolling Stones, Lenny Kravitz, and Janet Jackson. It also attracted Culture Club, who were ground-breaking.

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

Being on United Artists was almost as bad as not being on any label at all. They were the crappiest in the business. All they did was movie soundtracks. Now, they were making an effort to become much hipper - signing people like Bobby Womack and what have you.

I never had to ask Def Jam for anything.

Roc was only supposed to be our distributor, but then they ended up recruiting me as the label's artist. They said they really liked my album 'Everything You Wanted.'

I've always wanted to release records in America. That's where I believe the music belongs, and the style and the eclectic musical mix that we put together kind of belongs here.