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Quotes About Charts

The Government are very keen on amassing statistics - they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams.
~ Josiah Stamp
I'm not going to lie. I check the iTunes charts. It's all about the iTunes charts. I only go on the Internet for the iTunes charts and basketball blogs.
~ Nate Ruess
China Whales follow the whale-roads. Geese, roads of magnetized air. To go great distance, exactitudes matter. Yet how often the heart that set out for Peru arrives in China, Steering hard. consulting the charts the whole journey.
~ Jane Hirshfield
Your voice is vibrant for only a certain part of your life. There are some records I've always wanted to make, and I don't know if I want to waste this time beating on the door of the charts.
~ Kathy Mattea
There's so many inspiring women dominating the charts, so I feel like I'm definitely a part of a wave that's just really interesting and really cool.
~ Mabel
Since the big band started I'm just always swamped with movies and things. It certainly pays the bills and it's very satisfying, because I get to write all these big charts and all this crazy music.
~ Brian Setzer
It's not difficult getting into the charts in Sweden. It's a very different musical climate, and in a very good way, I think, because artists like Jose Gonzalez or The Knife can actually get on the charts.
~ Jens Lekman
With statistics, graphs, and charts, the country's highest-ranking soccer fan proposed a training plan for the speechless coach.
~ Kati Marton
Professionals are forced to read mountains of research to stay ahead of the competition, forced to develop complex financial models and sophisticated charts, and, most importantly, explain themselves to impatient and demanding investors once a month through newsletters and presentations. All
~ David Schneider
Quantcast combines powerful web analytics with easy-to-read charts and data.
~ Matt Mullenweg
Before 'American Idol' and all this stuff, I was obsessed with music charts, and I used to go online to find out what was popular in other countries. I'd log on to the BBC website, and that's how I found out about artists like Natasha Bedingfield, Daniel Bedingfield and Take That.
~ David Archuleta
Man, I was scared. I didn't know what to think. All of a sudden, I got a record climbing the charts, and I'm out in the streets. You know, workin' on the docks. And the first week, it sold something like 40,000 in New Orleans.
~ Aaron Neville
After reviewing the polygraph charts in private, the polygraph examiner told me that I had passed and that he believed I had nothing to do with the anthrax letters.
~ Steven Hatfill
I'm watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
~ Al Yankovic
I feel very ready to be a pop star. I feel like that's something that I deserve, and I feel prepared for being number one in the charts!
~ Daniel Rigby
I remember seeing the song in some diners on the selection gadget that plays records at the table while you were eating. We were never told if the songs ever got on any charts.
~ Phil Harris
Because record companies do not routinely release sales figures the way film studios do, the weekly charts in trade publications like 'Billboard' provide the best independent measure of record appeal.
~ Robert Hilburn
You can never predict a hit.
~ John Gourley
Chart numbers can be deceiving. An album doesn't have to sell that much these days to show up really high on the charts.
~ Kerry King
Deep down, I always had a belief I would get on the charts.
~ Lil Dicky
I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak. Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
~ Al Yankovic
The bestseller charts, a sure indicator of public taste, tell us with relentless frequency that Marian Keyes or Jeffrey Archer is a better author, by some dizzying six-figure sum, both in numbers of copies and money, than, say, J. M. Coetzee or Patrick White. Are they right?
~ Neel Mukherjee
after midnight Just words. No more pictures. No charts or plays or poems. Now it's just about the words.
~ Andrew Smith
I must have some sort of record in failing to get into the charts.
~ Frida Lyngstad