Quotes About Recognition

I'm well known because I do music at a professional level, and a certain magnitude.

I get all these loser preps coming up to me asking for autographs and all this crap, and I really want to tell them, 'My music is not for people like you!

It means so much being a part of country music and the Opry.

It's hard to be taken seriously if you're a young, female artist making pop music; you never know how people are going to react.

It would be nice to hear someone accidentally whistle something of mine, somewhere, just once.

People acceptin' me for me, people lovin' my music was big for me.

I was just glad to get the Grammy. I didn't know what the thing was. It's the honor what I loved.

Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the mainstream popular music.

[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

I'm older than I was, and I'm still washed-up, and I haven't changed my music one iota. It's just much easier to do this when people are being nice to you.

Your music sounds better on the radio, for some reason. It's an amazing feeling. I hope it never goes away.

When someone pursues music through your music, that's the greatest accolade anybody can get.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

The only thing my mother would say to me about my music - I'd say, "Mom, listen to this," and she'd say, "Junior, I know who you are."

He stole my music but he gave me my name.

I feel very, very gratified when people are complimentary to what I have done or appreciated it with sincerity... It makes me feel that maybe I did do something that was proper and that was right.

I'm now a legend, whether I want to be or not.

I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music.

I appreciate all the people that can respect and appreciate my music.

Radio continues to be the very best advertising music performers have. No one who ever grabbed a Grammy got there without radio.

I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully.

It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.

Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.

Johnny Cashs' face belongs on Mount Rushmore.