Madi Diaz Quotes

You don't want the biggest record deal as far as money goes, you just want to make sure that the people at the label really support your band and the music and stuff.

We'll look at a bunch of deals that are being offered to us, and we decide where to go and continue on I guess. It's not too early to start considering our options with other labels.

You sign your life away, basically, when you sign a record deal, and if you have a platinum album, then you go back in and renegotiate.

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

There was a bidding war between Epic Records and Jive - now RCA - which was bittersweet. Just having labels bid over me was really cool, but I ended up going with Jive because it felt better over there, and they have my favorite artists like Usher, Chris Brown, and Justin Timberlake.

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

I got really noticed by record labels and that's how I got signed.

You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.

The label doesn't do anything but put your record in the store, that's all they do. And tell you, you don't have a single... and tell you, it's not gonna sell... that's what the label does.

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 guess I've learned that there's really no such thing as a bad label, there is only a bad contract.

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 wanted out of my record deal with EMI. They wanted me to record one type of album; I wanted to record the type of music I wanted to make.

I'm very new to the industry. I'm not on the Billboard 200 and that is alarming to me. But when I sat down with my management they said it's not a big deal and that it happens all the time.

I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day.

Actually, we got signed in November of 2000 with Dreamworks which is the most amazing label. We have friends on other labels and though we are not selling millions of records, yet, they treat us with tons of respect and give us some very good guidance.

Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.

After we wrote The Wreckoning, our record label did listen.

My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time.

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

When people see you have a song on MTV, they think you are doing well - but you know, the way the traditional label deal was set up, it is really hard for an artist, unless they sold a lot, to see anything.

My first record deal was an independent record deal back in 1995 or early 1996.

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.

Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.