Complicated Quote by John Waters

I don't think you need a record deal to write songs. You don't need any other reason than you want to do it. It's…

— Andy Taylor

When it comes to the business side of it, as much as you might hate it, the reality is that you give the record…

— Paolo Nutini

To produce a proper album, you have to be in the studio and collaborate with all your singers. It takes a lot of time.

— Hardwell

Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their music is owned by the record company.…

— Roy Ayers

I do pay performance royalties on others' songs I perform live, but I'm not recording these songs and putting them up for sale.

— Prince

You never know how people are going to find songs for their records. Sometimes people will hear songs on someone else's record and really…

— J. J. Cale

The law is against us music composers. We have no legal control over our compositions. Music companies are selling our songs to producers at…

— Rajesh Roshan

All songs are already perfectly written. It is the writer's job to find it and get it on paper.

— Beth Nielsen Chapman

At the end of the day, you sign a record deal and you understand where it could go if you had the right song.

— Tinie Tempah

We have a few artists that seem to sell enough to pay back what it costs to make a record.

— Alan Sparhawk

The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter needs to have producing chops, be a singer, songwriter,…

— Cynthia Weil

You have to create music that people will buy into and show who you are as an artist.

— Leigh-Anne Pinnock