Quotes About Opportunity

Well, I had a record deal since I was 18, and it got me where I am.

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

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 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.

I was in musical theater when I first started, so there was always both acting and singing. But as far as getting a record deal, that took time. The majority of that time, I was acting.

I've been able to experience so many things since I've had my record deal.

I had a publishing deal way before I had a record deal.

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 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 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.'

I think as I've gotten older I think it was a blessing that I didn't get a record deal until my late 20s because I think it allowed me to really grow up as Carly not as Carly Pearce.

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

When I tried to get a record deal, only one label wanted me. The rest said 'oh, we've already got a girl with a guitar.' Can you imagine them ever saying that to a guy?

I made my living as a theater actor before I got my record deal.

Mark Ronson was a dear friend through family and through growing up in New York, being in that scene, and Mark came to a show and really liked it and asked us to join his record label Allido records, or 'all I do' records, and that was sort of a development deal.

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'm not ruling out music forever. I'd love to do that, but if I ever did, I don't think it would be with a record label or anything like that. It might even look like me finding a band and kind of playing in bars.

If a new artist comes, and he doesn't have a good record label to invest in him, then there is no point.

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.