Jaleel White Quotes

I've been very fortunate with the scripts I've had and the people I worked with.

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

I don't really like meetings, I like recording and performing music. I need to set myself up for when the time does come that I need better distribution or just a bigger team behind me.

I love the music business very much.

I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film.

I once worked at a record label called London Records. The company was owned by Roger Ames, one of the most successful figures in the British music industry. Roger always placed a value on loafing, on holidays, on not being in the office all the time.

I never had to ask Def Jam for anything.

When I was 17-years-old, I was in the music business.

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

I've never been in the music industry, only acting.

I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades.

Mostly I've never let record companies become involved with my music, which was a very smart thing that my first manager Dave Robinson did, to keep them out of it.

Being a recording artist, selling music, selling concerts out, having a reality show, starting film; it's great, it's beautiful.

I was very fortunate in the '70s to work with the best actors, the best directors, the best cinematographers.

You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage.

There are no record companies in Waikiki.

You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.

This is truly a blessing. Breyon Prescott, Peter Edge and Tom Corson believe in me and have introduced me to a home that also believes and knows exactly what to do with the type of music I'm doing.

There are very few record companies who will entertain a middle-aged woman coming to them with original material.

Today the kids that are out now they make a hit record and they put them right out on the stage with 10,000 people out there and they don't know anything about the business yet.

I just have so much love for my record label.

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 feel like I've been fortunate enough that I've gotten to meet and work with some really passionate people.

Someone told me there was a publisher that could find a good home for my songs, but I didn't want to give up my pursuit of a career in the business as an artist.

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