Quotes About Achievement

I did my first recording. It was called The Champ.

I'm a multi-platinum recording artist; my passion is food.

I dreamed of recording a guitar album since I started playing, but I just never felt ready. I never felt like I was the player that I wanted to be. But I had this epiphany: you're never going to feel ready.

I think we were probably playing live for about 12 months before we got a recording deal.

I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.

I have been recording for five decades now.

I'm very motivated by the occasional creative payoff that comes when something goes really well, be it a song, a recording or performance. The payoff is enormous - when you get it. Most of the time, though, I'm filled with self-loathing and general frustration at the limitations I have as a musician.

I want a hit. I don't think anybody spends 12 months writing and recording an album, making something cool, and says, 'Great, I hope this doesn't sell.' I don't understand that mind-set. I want hits: a big bunch of them.

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

I learned that being sort of legitimately recognized by a legitimate and traditional recording academy, it made people look at us a bit differently. Not everyone, but some people.

Dre's from Compton, I'm from Brooklyn, and we both wanted to make a better life for ourselves, right? And we both - somehow, we're both recording engineers, that's how we got our break.

Money definitely does not equal success in recording.

Piper took me one step further in that it got my first real recording contract but the band just didn't quite mature. It didn't break things open, but it got me to the door.

I think, actually, I was the first person to ever sign a simultaneous video and recording deal with a record company.

I bought some equipment and then I started recording real heavy, in my room, when I was like 16.

I've lived with my dyslexia and gone on to have a successful recording career, but academically I never had a chance in hell because I didn't fall into that bracket.

I never thought I'd be able to say 25 years about anything, really, much less be a recording artist for 25 years.

Recording with Meek Mill for me was like when Allen Iverson played with Michael Jordan for the first time.

I was really close to being this guy who used to be in this band who is still playing and trying to get some recordings together, but I got really lucky.

I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.

Records are made to be broken.

I'm proud of all our records. Even the crap ones.

I think sometimes I guess you see records, say you want to get there and use that as motivation. In a way, it's kind of cool if there is a possibility to rewrite history and be up there with the greats of Olympic history.

People have said to me, You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument. But I've got 10 gold records.