Quotes About Recognition

Every year, they ask me to play the Grammys.

I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music.

I don't measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can't because I'll just end up crushed.

I want to win Grammys.

I have a love-hate relationship with the Grammys because I don't see the music world as a competitive sport.

Not many people are able to say that they had in their professional career the chance to perform in two bands that won Grammys and were multiplatinum bands.

I spent 25 years clearly understanding that I'm not gonna meet Bono or the Edge. But then it happened at the Grammys when we were all backstage and I just about fell out of my shoes.

Some people have their problems with the Grammys, and it doesn't recognize so many great artists.

The American Music Awards mean more to us; that's a people's award, and we're a people's band. The Grammys are the critics.

That was one thing I wanted to win because, my mom, she didn't really know much else in music, but the Grammys were special to her.

I would not be able to sleep at night and I would practice my Grammys speech. That was definitely me.

Well, 20 Grammys is not bad.

I'm kind of iffy on the Latin Grammys because I think we fought so hard, for example, to get the American side of the Grammys to open categories for us... But I support the Latin Grammys in the sense I'm glad that we have them.

I want Grammys.

I couldn't believe it, this is the first time I've been on the Grammys and it's amazing. I've been dreaming to be here at the Grammys for so long.

You go to the Grammys and you say, 'I don't care if I win or not,' and of course you care.

Most players play with a dream that some day, when they have finished, people will tell their grandchildren that they were a good player. I am the same.

The only thing I don't like is being called the 'grandfather of the cellphone' because that makes me a little older than I prefer to be.

I can't walk through the airport without grandmothers and daughters and little kids saying, 'I watch you on Celebrity Apprentice.' That's a good feeling.

Why do we want to win an award? Yes, my grandmother would be very proud, but I think it's also so people can hear, 'Oh, this show won an award. I guess it's good. I should watch it now.'

I've always wanted grandpa to be proud of me, and I want him to see me play in the NBA.

In '89, I got a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. That's when I started to get into group shows. Suddenly, I sort of 'came out' as an artist.

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

I never took anything for granted.