Missy Elliott Quotes

Getting a record deal is a meaningless thing now.

If I was rich enough, I would love to launch my own record label. I would love to try and give all my musically talented friends a start in the industry.

So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it's great that now, 25 years later, we're not only putting out our own music, but are able to put out music by other bands. That's really exciting for us.

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.

I would love to continue working behind the scenes in music - to produce and manage up-and-coming musical talent would be a dream!

I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day.

I think, back in the day, when I was first starting to make music, all I wanted to do was to get a record deal.

I've been through the entire gamut of the music industry - I've been playing in clubs since I was 14, and I've been on Warner Bros, on Sony - I've had lots of successes and some serious times of struggle.

I went through a string of A&R men who all thought I should be doing something different. One thought I should be a dance diva; another thought I should do Rock n' Roll; and one thought I shouldn't even be singing at all!

Shoot, there's a committee to tell you everything at a record label. You definitely have to know who you are if you want to look like you at the end of the process. We've all seen people get record contracts, and by the time they're spit out by the machine, we don't even recognize them.

I started my own record label.

I can't believe I got a major-label record deal. My music was quirky, and my voice was so odd and high and girlish, it was like a weird novelty act.

My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time.

I was initially signed to a German label a few years ago.

I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands.

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

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

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

You wait all your life to be signed by a major label, and then when they sign you, they don't want you to do what you want to do.

I've been with Def Jam Records for five years and they gave me my first recording contract so for that I'm forever grateful.

I've been doing my record label for 15 years called Dim Mak. I started my label when I was 19 in '96. I started putting out an eclectic roster of artists. In 2003, we found a band called Bloc Party, and in 2004, we started getting remixes for Bloc Party, and at the same time I was throwing Dim Mak parties in Los Angeles.

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

The new independent spirit at Warner Music is a perfect fit for a stand-alone label like Maverick.

I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend that the record industry is an insidious affair. It's this terrible collision between art and commerce, and it will always be that way.

This is a very screwed-up business. Record labels don't sign a lot of bands these days. We just want to find a home and stay there and make records and do our thing and not have to look over our shoulder.