Careers Quote by Beck

I would imagine after the first recording session with Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and Atlantic Records I began to realize that this is…

— Ben E. King

Before the whole [music] business was calibrated around the selling of records. I never could have imagined that live performance would become kind of…

— Arthur Fogel

R&B and all that stuff was always very spare and spontaneous. Nobody made those records under solid gold situations. It was just in and…

— Ry Cooder

'Beautiful Loser' had a lot of great records. It had a lot of really heartfelt songs on there. But I felt, at the time,…

— Kyle

I've never gotten money from most of those records. And I made those records: In the studio, they'd just give me a bunch of…

— Little Richard

We were excited when we sold our first 10 records. I always felt that if we could get the music out there, and if…

— Greg Ginn

I wasn't interested in fame, and I'm still not. So I never felt I had to match that first record in terms of commercial…

— Corinne Bailey Rae

I'd spent a year and a half without a record deal and had been doing a lot of soul-searching, a lot of self-examination and…

— Lari White

It wasn't just like, "I want to make a record that sounds like classic rock" at all. It was more like, "I want to…

— Carrie Brownstein

So, my records really didn't sell, but musicians started picking up on my sound and my songs and cutting my songs and that turned…

— J. J. Cale

The eighties turned the whole system upside down. They would sign three groups and give them five or ten million dollars each to make…

— Tony Visconti

When the first record came out, I'd go down to radio stations pretty much every day to get the record played, and I would…

— Pat Benatar