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A record deal is my dream.
When I was 19 I had a record deal.
Getting a record deal is a meaningless thing now.
I dropped out of law school when I got my record deal.
I had a publishing deal way before I had a record deal.
I made my living as a theater actor before I got my record deal.
Well, I had a record deal since I was 18, and it got me where I am.
It was actually really hard to get a record deal after 'American Idol.'
The Roots - we signed our first record deal when I was about 19 years old.
I've been able to experience so many things since I've had my record deal.
Because I'm not in a record deal, I don't have to operate in an album format.
I keep in touch with these people who knew me long before I got a record deal.
My first record deal was an independent record deal back in 1995 or early 1996.
When you get a record deal, you got to be pretty headstrong, know your direction.
I got a record deal with Sony, and I really just put acting aside. But it's a love.
It only took me six months to get a record deal, but it took me 20 years to have a hit.
I'm one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tried to get a record deal.
Well, I tried to get a record deal in 1966 or '67, and everyone thought I was too eclectic.
When I was 17, I signed my record deal and passed my driver's test. It was a very good year!
I'm not desperate to sign, like, a record deal. I'm very hungry, but I'm just not desperate for it.
I wanted to be part of pop culture, so I started songwriting, and I got signed to my first record deal.
I don't have a record deal, I'm not looking for one, I don't have a manager, I'm not promoting anything.
I walked out of the Chinese restaurant with a fat check, a record deal, and a box of shrimp egg foo yung!
I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn't even expect to get a record deal.
I was a total nerd and had, like, two friends, and then I left my school and got signed to a record deal.
I started DJing, breakdancing and MCing in the '70s and I got my record deal in 1979 with 'Christmas Rap.'
When I first got the record deal, I thought it felt like I won the lottery. But I always worked hard at it.
Even before I got the record deal, I never really used singing to get girls. I always felt weird about that.
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 always said, if I got a record deal, I'd want to record the best songs I could, whether I wrote them or not.
I put a song on Soundcloud, and Annie Mac made it record of the week, and a month later, I signed my record deal.
I remember at a very early age ringing up record labels I found in the Yellow Pages, and asking them for a record deal.
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.
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.
'Back 2 Da Basics' was my way of saying I'm done and out of the streets and I'm going to get a record deal and be a rapper for real.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Yeah, well I've had a record deal for a long time so I'm kinda used to the cameras and the people, I'm used to dealing with peoples' opinions.
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.
If I had been thrown out into a radio tour when I was 18, or 17, and given a record deal, I don't think... it would have been a total nightmare.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.