Albums Quote by Taylor Swift

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

I don't have a development deal, but the one thing I have learned is never say never. I will consider things as they come.

— Nina Garcia

As an artist, to release music is what you look forward to. That's what everybody looks forward to when they sign a deal. It…

— Short Dawg

I'm not just going to get a deal; I'm going to get the deal. And in my deal I got by signing with No…

— Logic

Basically the deal he offered us, you know what I mean? We in business, it was a business deal. So it was like bigger…

— Mobb Deep

Do you have a record contract? I have a recording agreement. What's the difference? One is an agreement and one is a contract! I…

— Bob Marley

A lot of new artists sign their deal and then go into a development stage for a year or two or sometimes never get…

— Maren Morris

When you sign a contract, that's your deal. Everyone has different deals anyway.

— Toni Duggan

Just because you signed a deal, it doesn't mean anything, or that you'll be on the radio tomorrow.

— Griff

Andrew [Ridgeley] and I had demoed a couple of our songs very cheaply, and we weren't expecting any kind of record deal. We just…

— George Michael

A contract player has to do what he's told, and play the parts others pick out for him. As far as the studio is…

— Van Heflin

I got signed to a development deal when I was 15. That fell through after about a year when the company merged with another…

— Lights