When I signed my first record deal, I brought it over to…

The Roots - we signed our first record deal when I was about 19 years old.

— Black Thought

I wanted to be part of pop culture, so I started songwriting, and I got signed to my first record deal.

— Bebe Rexha

I put a song on Soundcloud, and Annie Mac made it record of the week, and a month later, I signed my record deal.

— Mabel

I’m half crazy but I know the Devil real. I should know, I signed a record deal.

— Bishop Lamont

Back in the Nineties, I was in an R&B group. I signed my first record deal when I was 12.

— Poo Bear

When I signed a record deal, I was always told by execs I needed to be like everybody else, that I had to show…

— Jessica Simpson

It is a horrible demoralizing thing to be a lawyer. You look for such low motives in everyone and everything.

— Katharine Tynan

Has he come armed, then?” she asked anxiously. “Has he brought a pistol or a sword?” Ian shook his head, his dark hair lifting…

— Diana Gabaldon

You expect certain things. You build up in your mind how it's supposed to go down. When you get a record deal, you think…

— Lupe Fiasco

If you don't have a record deal, you've got to be a record company.

— Mary Gauthier

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.

— Cole Swindell

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

— Martie Maguire

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…

— Langhorne Slim

A record deal is my dream.

— Dinah Jane

It was a lot easier to write songs before I had a record deal, because the record labels and the industry doesn't mean to…

— Ashton Shepherd