Quotes About Achievement

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.

I intend to put them on the charts.

Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.

Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints.

But right now we have an advantage of being the number one in music.

Growing up in music motivated me. I applied that to my education and it made me a better person.

All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as I'm concerned.

Real music doesn't always win Grammys

I'm living my dream right now. I get to make music, perform and travel.

I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

My focus is trying to make great music and putting on great shows, and whatever happens beyond that is a bonus to me.

I first started writing music when I was 15 and at 16, I was playing in different cities in Australia. When I was 18, I was voted number one DJ in Australia.

I wore glasses, no music, and I won - I think it was - fifth place. I got a whipping the same day. My mother whipped me for something. Destroyed my ego completely.

I realized the more I made the music for myself, the more successful I was becoming.

My fame came from my success as a country music singer.

Everybody told me this 'girl on the piano' thing was never going to work.

We hate it when our friends become successful.

Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often.

I've been making music since I was damn near born. For me to be a producer and be on my sixteenth year making music is a blessing.

If you will it, it is no dream

I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!

To err is nature, to rectify error is glory.

I am inclined by nature to be optimistic about the capacity of a person to rise higher than he or she has thought possible once interest and ambition are aroused.

You don't really conquer a mountain, you conquer yourself. You overcome sickness & everything else - your pains, aches, fears - to reach the summit.