Quotes About Achievement

The music industry really is a meritocracy on a creative level.

That's where people go wrong in the music industry: they get all these fancy things and think that they deserve them, but they really haven't done anything to earn them yet.

My fantasy had always been making a music video and performing with music that I had created.

I've always dreamed of doing a music video.

I would love to do a musical. I would love that. I would have to find the right book, the right story, but some day I'm going to make one. I would really like to go off and direct a musical. That's what I would really like to do when I grow up.

The GRAMMY was a huge deal. It's the height of any musical career.

I'm making my Broadway musical debut at the age of 73 - it's a kind of interesting career arc.

My musical journey with A. R. Rahman is filled with personal milestones and realisations.

Maybe I've got to admit that what I did here was enough. I can make some more films. Maybe I'll direct a film. Maybe I'll have my musical put on stage. But nothing, really, to be absolutely honest, competes with making a very successful pop band for 10 years of my life.

The film was fair to his musical achievement and gave him every opportunity to explain himself.

I never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one.

I went to the University of Michigan and have a BFA in Musical Theatre.

I may never get my own action figure, but at least I think what I'm doing is really legitimate musically.

When you spend two to three years working on an album that I feel very happy with the end result, there is nothing I would change. Musically, I have achieved what I set out to do.

I'm doing exactly what I always wanted to do, and I still like what I can do musically.

'Once on This Island' is one of my favorite musicals, so to have the lead in that would be great.

Acting, musicals, bringing out an album - not many people have done that. Anthony Newley, Barbra Streisand?

I have written a lot of musical theatre over my life - two Olivier Award-winning musicals - and I still don't think I'm ready to be the boss in the room.

I'm a jazz musician in that I have achieved Grade 3 on the French horn.

I think, as a musician and person, Justin Timberlake is someone I've always looked up to.

I've also become much more the musician I've always wanted to be.

There are things that I am very proud of and there are things that you are not so proud of. But I think that applies to any musician.

I don't claim to be a musician, I didn't go to Julliard.

As a musician, I've accomplished what I hoped to accomplish.