Young M.A Quotes

Anything can wait for a hit record. That, after all, is what everyone wants at the end of the day.

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

It only took me six months to get a record deal, but it took me 20 years to have a hit.

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.

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

I think the music industry is something that's very separate from music. So, by always staying on the music side of it, I've found success.

I never had to ask Def Jam for anything.

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

Jimmy Iovine signed me personally to a million-dollar contract, and I lost my identity for a long time. That system is so predicated on making a hit, or you're out of here.

The end game is always a hit song.

For the first six years of my career I was independent. I got on to a major and did my thing there. I had platinum and gold records and all that.

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

To be successful to me meant to have a hit record in England. I never looked outside England.

I have had the good fortune to experience both the limelight and the traffic light as a musician. I did my first recording on my own and it was available at concerts. The second to seventh were released on small and then large labels. My eighth to 14th were done under my own steam once again, but with the benefit of the Internet.

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

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.

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

I want to sell out arenas and make an album and work with some of the best artists in the world.

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

We're thrilled to expand our relationship, knowing that with the great team at the Music Group, Word, and Warner Bros., and with their proven record of excellence, we're looking ahead to an even brighter future for Curb.

I made this record without a record label.

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

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

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.

At the end of the day, you sign a record deal and you understand where it could go if you had the right song.