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Long made it possible for me to get on records, so what little money he did take from me, if any at all, he was entitled to it. He didn't take something from me.

— Brownie McGhee

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

By the age of 17, for me, we had got an recording contract, and, boom, I was gone.

— Tommy Lee

So why sign your name in blood for more? It seemed like a sensible arrangement for me. I didn't sell large numbers of records and the record company paid advances they rarely recouped.

— David Knopfler

Well, I had a record deal since I was 18, and it got me where I am.

— Shelby Lynne

I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing.

— Jo Stafford

If you look at my record, I have a clean record.

— Rafael dos Anjos

✗Opposing Perspectives

I worked a long time to get good at what I'm doing, and nobody handed me a recording contract because of who my father is.

— Alexa Ray Joel

I never sought out a record deal. It caught me with my pants down. I was just a musician doing my thing, I didn't even send my records out.

— Jamie Cullum

In one week, I went from being a girl who owed a guy thousands of dollars - my manager Anthony was paying for my outfits, paying for my food; I was sleeping in his parents' basement - to taking meetings with every major label in America. The next morning, I had a record deal and wrote him a cheque to pay back all that money.

— Halsey

At the time I attempted to purchase the rights back for the 3 Homestead records, but the owner demanded an outrageous sum in the neighborhood of $10,000, about 10 times more money than I could get my hands on at the time.

— Mark Edwards

If you are a musician who has released albums, it would perhaps be morbidly interesting to know how much you would be owed if everyone who now has your music had actually bought your record.

— Henry Rollins