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He asked my girlfriend if we could come over and sing some of the songs that we had written, which we did. After he heard the songs, he said that he knew someone in the record business by the name of Bob Shad.

— Phil Harris

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

He asked if I was a songwriter, and I said yeah, that I was in town because I'd won this contest. He said, okay, then he was gonna play me his hit, and started singing 'When it's time to relax, one beer stands clear... '

— Arthur Godfrey

That was the producer who produced a couple of my solo albums. He produced my second, third and fourth solo albums. It was his project and I just joined him on it. I sang on one and played bass on another one.

— John Entwistle

And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.

— Sally Kellerman

In the Troubadour days, it was all those songwriters that I hung around with all the time, so I could get songs and find out what was going on. So we all knew each other, and we just carried each other's word around.

— Linda Ronstadt

The music business and I were made for each other.

— Jerry Heller

I want people to say about me, 'I know he's making music because he loves it.'

— Hunter Hayes

50 Cent's a songwriter. He understood and liked my music, but he didn't understand me.

— Danny Brown

It was my first big relationship and it was just very abusive. I wouldn't give him the credit of naming him, if he ever reads this. But he was older, in the music business - or so he said.

— Lisa Snowdon

✗Opposing Perspectives

When I met Michael Jordan on a basketball court at an athletic club - we hooped together in Chicago - he came to me and asked me if I wanted to do a song for his upcoming movie. I was like, 'Yeah!' I didn't even ask what it was.

— R. Kelly

We met because Chad was in one of my classes, and I was looking for someone to write music with. I knew that he wrote his own music, and he seemed nice, so I found out he was going to be in a practice room, practicing his trumpet. He'd already said he was too busy to hang out or hear any new people or work on any music, so I stalked him.

— Ian Axel