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A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist. -- Lady Gaga
I started DJing, breakdancing and MCing in the '70s and I got my record deal in 1979 with 'Christmas Rap.' -- Kurtis Blow
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. -- G-Eazy
To drive though the streets of Manhattan to sign a record deal was like a movie. It was crazy - pretty hard to put into words. -- James Bay
I feel like I am a celebrity for no reason, like people are resentful I didn't have to play bars for 10 years to get a record deal. -- Carrie Underwood
I started growing my hair in December '89. I was seventeen. I signed my record deal and said I ain't combing my hair no more. I don't have too. -- Busta Rhymes
I don't have anything to prove anymore. I don't have a record deal, no one has any expectations, I'm in a position of freedom. I don't need anyone's approval. -- Juliana Hatfield
I can't believe I got a major-label record deal. My music was quirky, and my voice was so odd and high and girlish, it was like a weird novelty act. -- Juliana Hatfield
You're just so excited that you have this record deal or this movie opportunity that you don't stand up for yourself and say, This is what I want to do. -- Solange Knowles
I have to work really hard to get the record deal - I have to spend years at it to get good. I have to practice to be good at guitar. -- Taylor Swift
What's interesting is often people think life changes when you have a record deal and you do all kinds of stuff. Obviously your life changes, but nothing changes your life like getting married and having kids. -- Jamie Cullum
The Midwest breeds funny, eccentric people, to varying degrees. You play shows not because you're expecting to get a record deal, but to do something fun outside of mowing lawns. Everything else is just gravy... Or mustard. -- Patrick Carney
I had to get out of my record deal that I signed with my previous band and get a full solo record deal going so, with all of the paperwork that, that entails it did take a while. -- Sebastian Bach
People think when you get a record deal all your problems will go away. We know that the bigger we get, the more problems we'll have. I guess Puff Daddy was somewhat - what's the word? - prophetic in that respect. -- Brad Delson
I'd gone from being this art student messing about with music to this girl with a record deal, magazine front covers and all this hype. In many ways, it was everything I ever wanted, but when it happened all I felt was total, paralysing fear. -- Florence Welch
When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup. -- Janelle Monae
Though I still have no semblance of a life outside of Nine Inch Nails at the moment, I realize my goals have gone from getting a record deal or selling another record to being a better person, more well-rounded, having friends, having a relationship with somebody. -- Trent Reznor
And it took me about 11 years to get a record deal, and I just had to work around and come to terms with the fact that what I was doing was going to be different, and I just had to wait until somebody was ready to jump on the bandwagon. -- Lee Ann Womack
I was turning 20 during my first record. Those decade birthdays always kind of cause me, it seems, to reflect, look back, and then look forward. I just was closing this period of my life where I was living in a car and scrambling my whole life to then signing a six-record deal with Atlantic. -- Jewel
I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company. -- Jay-Z
I had knockback after knockback before I got anywhere. After I got my first record deal I thought that was it, then Gut Records went into liquidation. I was 20. I had no idea what that meant. I had a few days to get myself out of that contract or my work would be owned by someone else. -- Jessie J
Nine Inch Nails was born out of Cleveland, Ohio, with me and a friend in a studio working on demos at night. Got a record deal with a small, little label, went on tour in a van, and a couple years later found that somehow we touched a nerve, and that first record resonated with a bunch of people. -- Trent Reznor
It was a lot easier to write songs before I had a record deal, because the record labels and the industry doesn't mean to put pressure on you, but they do. They don't realize that they are, but you end up having a pressure there that you feel. At times I feel myself wanting to say, 'Just let me do what I do.' -- Ashton Shepherd
Da Pak was a group out of Chicago. It was a put-together group. We actually met for the first time at this showcase. They were like 'Yo, you should do a song together.' So we did. It just so happened that the name of the song was 'Wolf Pak.' They said, 'Y'all should be a group called Da Pak, and here's a record deal.' -- Lupe Fiasco
I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then when I was in my second year of college, I was like, 'Yeah, you guys don't need to send me money anymore. My DJ gigs are good enough. I'm selling music; I think I'm gonna have a record deal. I can pay my tuition.' -- Kaskade
I have a huge scarf from Hermes that I bought the day I signed my record deal. I had never had an Hermes scarf. And I ran to buy one, thinking, 'Now, this is a symbol, I need one, I need an Hermes scarf,' which actually now I'm quite embarrassed about. Most of the time I twist it so much that no one notices it, and just bundle it around me. -- Lou Doillon
Why do I, Mandy Moore, get a record deal? -- Mandy Moore
I'm Taylor, I'm 11 and I want a record deal. -- Taylor Swift
Getting a record deal is a meaningless thing now. -- Oscar Isaac
My first record deal was an independent record deal back in 1995 or early 1996. -- Joe Nichols
If you don't have a record deal, you've got to be a record company. -- Mary Gauthier
Everytime we put a record out, we lose people that can't deal with the growth. -- Lars Ulrich
I got a publishing deal with BMG, they were supportive, and some money to record demos. -- Duncan Sheik
I got a publishing deal with BMG, they were supportive, and some money to record demos -- Duncan Sheik
Well, I had a record deal since I was 18, and it got me where I am. -- Shelby Lynne
When you get your first record deal, you will do anything, because you just want to sing. -- Joss Stone
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You don't need a record deal. You'll have the industry begging for you, when you build your buzz. -- Russell Simmons
Well, I tried to get a record deal in 1966 or '67, and everyone thought I was too eclectic. -- Carly Simon
I got a record deal with Sony, and I really just put acting aside. But it's a love. -- Sophie B. Hawkins
I'm one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tried to get a record deal. -- Michelle Shocked
When I was 17, I signed my record deal and passed my driver's test. It was a very good year! -- Conor Maynard
It only took me six months to get a record deal, but it took me 20 years to have a hit. -- Shane McAnally
I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn't even expect to get a record deal. -- Norah Jones
I had a record deal with Sony in the beginning of the 90s, and I was rapping and singing in my band. -- Volker Bertelmann
I walked out of the Chinese restaurant with a fat check, a record deal, and a box of shrimp egg foo yung! -- Solomon Burke
Now my record deal helps me to do things for free or give more time to my community than I could otherwise. -- Erykah Badu
Do you ever think about when you outta here? Record deal and video, outta here!? Mercedes Benz and Range Rover, outta here!? -- KRS-One
I have a great family that loves me, a record deal at 14, and I get to do what I love every day. -- Coco Jones
It don't make sense: either you a soldier from the start, Or a actor with a record deal tryin' to play the part. -- Xzibit
A development deal is where they're giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they'll put an album out. -- Taylor Swift
As long as we keep learning new music and getting better musically, there's a good chance that the record deal won't change anything. -- Mike Gordon
Criticism didn't really stop us and it shouldn't ever stop anyone, because critics are only the people who can't get a record deal themselves. -- Paul McCartney
At the end of the day, you sign a record deal and you understand where it could go if you had the right song. -- Tinie Tempah
When I first tried to get a record deal for my original music, labels didn't understand what these instruments were meant to be doing -- Suzanne Ciani
To actually get together and make a band record feels like a bit of a big deal, and that can be quite daunting when you're musicians. -- Tracey Thorn
Before I had a record deal, I was living in New York and playing anywhere I could, from somebody's house to an open mic to coffeeshops. -- Langhorne Slim
I started as a writer and when I sent my demos out everyone wanted to know who was singing and if that person wanted a record deal. -- Brian McKnight
I started singing when I was 18 and landed my first record deal with RCA when I was 26 after a lot of grafting singing in pubs and clubs. -- Bonnie Tyler
I never sought out a record deal. It caught me with my pants down. I was just a musician doing my thing, I didn't even send my records out. -- Jamie Cullum
Once I started looking for a record deal, I had a trainer. And the trainer told me that I would never sell a record if I didn't lose weight. -- Jill Scott
What I did to celebrate was I went home to my 535-square-foot apartment by myself and ate supper by myself. That was how I celebrated getting a record deal. -- Josh Turner
I grew up listening to everything, and when I got signed to a record deal out of Nashville, that was my introduction to what was happening in country music. -- Mary Chapin Carpenter
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. -- Joss Stone
I'm never going to be a woman who doesn't work. At 12 I was emancipated from my parents so I could sign my first record deal. I think I was born working! -- Jessica Simpson
There isn't a single artist out there, I'm sure, who wouldn't take the most perfect record deal. If the right record deal came along, like, the perfect deal, we'd definitely take it. -- Madi Diaz
As I grew older, I actually was prepared to go into fine arts school and do a degree. That was what I was actually settled upon when I was offered a record deal. -- PJ Harvey
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. -- Adam Rich
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. -- Natasha Bedingfield
When I got a record deal I said, 'I'm only wearing jeans. I'm not wearing frilly dresses.' Dancing around in sequins is just not who I am. I wanted to be heard, not seen. -- Miranda Lambert

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