Quotes About Ambition

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 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.

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.

I was very dramatic - very, like, 'It's never going to happen. My life is over at 16 because I'm not already famous. I'm not going to get my record deal. I'm not going to be able to sing for a living.'

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

I was never supposed to get a record deal - that's one in a million.

A record deal is my dream.

I went to Nashville when I was 10. Tried to get a record deal. Everybody was like, 'You're 10. It's not gonna happen. Come back later.'

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

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

Originally, I thought of being a photographer and nearly went to art school, but I got a record deal instead.

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

I started my own record label.

I'm from Israel, so America has no limits. I started a record label, and then I started managing other artists, like Liza Minelli.

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.

When I got my first email from a record label, I decided I didn't want to go in with just one song, so I sat down and kept on writing.

I want to have a publishing company and a record label, and I want to manage five artists... eventually.

Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to start a record label.

I did my first album with my own record label.

I used to be brave. In the past, I've opened a restaurant, had a record label, had my daughter and it was go, go, go with all of these.