Quotes About Determination

I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record.

From the age of 14 to about 20, I bombarded record companies and DJs with my demos. I was desperate to get it out there. Most of the time, I got nothing back.

I always thought that if record companies didn't understand me, fine - I'd go and do it by myself.

I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company.

Bananarama were written off from day one. Nobody believed in us but us. We kept having hits despite the record company, despite the press.

I'm pushing ahead on my own - you no longer need a large record company to make you a star.

People thought we were crazy for starting a record company. They really thought I was shooting myself in the foot.

In the early Nineties, after my first round of financial problems, I started a studio in Kensal Road in London right at the time when no record company wanted to hear anything from Leo Sayer.

Missing You' almost didn't get on the No Brakes' album, because the record company said, 'The album's finished. We don't need any more songs.'

I've always known, before I had a record deal, that the thing is to go out and put on the show. I've been doing that from day one.

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.

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

I made a CD in my dorm room and put it on the Internet, and my friends blew it up. Within a few months, I was doing shows across the country without a record deal, without a single, without anything.

Some people choose to go on 'American Idol' or another singing contest, and some people choose to beat down barrooms before anyone even knows who they are, in order to get a fan base, so when they do get a record deal, they have that to put in front of a label.

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.

'The Voice' ignited a fire in me to be an artist and to be a country singer, but not winning ignited an even bigger fire, because I was just like, 'First of all, I know that I want this'; now I wanted it even more, 'cause I didn't know if I had a record deal.

I'm not desperate to sign, like, a record deal. I'm very hungry, but I'm just not desperate for it.

It was actually really hard to get a record deal after 'American Idol.'

That first record, I wrote before I had a record deal.

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

I made this record without a record label.

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

When I first was a part of 'The Monster,' I really wanted to put it out under my name, but no record label thought it was good enough - until Eminem liked it.

When I first started out in the music industry and went to Elektra Records, I didn't go to be an artist, I went to get a record label started. And they said in order to have a label deal, I had to be an artist - so that's what I did.