Quotes About Career

Music has always been a big part of Cheech & Chong's career, so it's just natural. You know, I was a musician before I met Cheech and had a record with Motown, and so I've got the cred.

My career record was 5-2 in penalty shootouts.

I'll put my conservative record up against anybody's record. I have a 10-year career in public service, and I'm proud of the things I've been able to accomplish.

My record shows that I'm not the kind of player who wants to change clubs every season, and I would have no problem playing in England for many more years.

I left the entertainment industry part of my life behind in 1983, when we decided not to work with major record companies anymore.

I used to run record companies, and I went to the advertising business at 29 years old.

I never knew much about business. But I've been made happy. The TV and commercials have been very fortunate for me and my career. And Atlantic Records has always been wonderful to me. I don't think I could have chosen a better record company.

I told the record company I didn't feel the need to be at red-carpet events. I wanted a career. But I wanted to keep myself intact as a person.

For a long time, I felt like I failed myself, my career, and my record company.

When I made 'A Few Small Repairs' and it did well, I followed that up with having a baby, and that was not received well at my record company. I was written off, and that had a bearing on my career.

I don't know what record company would sign a 45-year-old former 80s pop star.

As a young singer, a record company wanted me to be a rock singer. I told them I couldn't because I didn't understand the music.

I dropped out of law school when I got my record deal.

I had pretty much raised my kids and my first wife and I were divorced, so I began, in earnest, to start my musical career again. Going for the big record deal and all of that.

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.

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.

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

I was really fearful that I was going to lose my record deal. It's really scary as a female to not have that success early on in your career, 'cause you don't know how many chances you are going to get.

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 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.

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