Another Quote by Leslie Uggams

Mitch Miller knew exactly what he wanted me to sing. He didn't want me to improvise at all.

— Johnny Mathis

James Burton was playing some pure roots stuff. Gram Parsons took an interest in that record [in '68-'69] and he admired it. I never…

— Steve Young

I wanted to become a better entertainer, and I learned from my brother James Andrews. And I've been studying some tape of James Brown…

— Trombone Shorty

Since I was 18 I was in the record industry doing my own thing, and I had to be that strong person.

— Amy Macdonald

With my quick success, I didn't have time to learn the ropes of the music business. Because my first record was such a hit,…

— Phoebe Snow

For the amount of talent I had (and I couldn't dance, act, or tell a joke) I enjoyed a tremendous career.

— Perry Como

I always thought that I would have a recording career.

— Joely Fisher

I was a folk singer who became totally over the edge with country music. I found my voice and style working with Gram Parsons.…

— Emmylou Harris

I tried hard to create my own records when a lot of them belonged to Steve Davis, so to see someone else beat yours,…

— Stephen Hendry

My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late '60s with my work with the MC5…

— Jon Landau

If I was to spend time working out what the record company got - and those in that team of people around us -…

— Liz Mitchell

When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be…

— Anonymous