Able Quote by Curtis Jackson

When new artists come out and they're not being cosigned or some company doesn't have a stake in it, or someone's not getting paid…

— Pharoahe Monch

There are a lot of producers who basically have their sound, and if the artist works with them, you almost know what the record's…

— Jon Brion

Most bands have a sound that they're already identified with, so for the producer it becomes a process of helping them find their muse…

— Jerry Harrison

The thing that got me started on Twitter was just basically pressure from management and the record company saying, 'Hey, this is what all…

— Blake Shelton

A lot of getting a song done is booking the studio time.

— Kurt Vile

It's a social media time, where you have YouTube and everything it's kind of like you see my career grow up on camera. But…

— Young De

My responsibility is to the artist first. There's something that artists intrinsically know about their music and their fanbase that neither the record company…

— Nile Rodgers

If you're an unknown artist you're lucky to get an hour in a studio - it's a hierarchy and if you don't have hits,…

— John Lennon

Now we know that, the way contracts are set up, it's not really made for artists to get rich from selling records - that's…

— Lisa Lopes

The way to judge a new artist is by listening to their albums and gauging the progress that they make from the first record…

— Big Boi

A development deal is where they're giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they'll put an album out.

— Taylor Swift

To make a record requires a strategy; it's not just throwing somebody in the studio and seeing how it goes. Some artists are self-contained,…

— Tom Corson