Quotes About Aspiration

I was very dramatic - very, like, 'It's never going to happen. My life is over at 16 because I'm not already famous. I'm not going to get my record deal. I'm not going to be able to sing for a living.'

I always said, if I got a record deal, I'd want to record the best songs I could, whether I wrote them or not.

A record deal is my dream.

That first record, I wrote before I had a record deal.

Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to start a record label.

I wanted to be the best guitar player in the world. And then my dad got me a portable recorder, so I started writing my own music.

I think what I always want whenever I'm recording is to have even just 2 percent of what the Alabama Shakes have, Brittany Howard.

I should be, right now, a normal 17-year-old sitting in class in high school. Instead, I'm recording, and it's so exciting for me. I can't imagine anything I'd rather be doing right now.

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

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.

I went to college to find myself. That's where I really realized I wanted to be a recording artist and started on the process of figuring out how to do that.

I always thought that I would have a recording career.

My grandmother worked at one of those Bel-Air mansions, and we would go - not too often, but every now and then - to pick her up. Hollywood was probably 12 miles from my house, but it might as well have been a million miles away. The only time I saw that world was on TV. Until I started making records.

When I started recording, I thought I'd be able to do all kinds of records: jazz, country, dance - and I've always wanted to do a gospel album.

I am always thinking about records I want to make.

If you ever want to play bigger places, you need to have records that sound like you're playing in big places.

I want to be the president of Columbia Records, maybe C.E.O. - kind of like L.A. Reid.

For sure I want to achieve records.

The only biography I read was about Al Bell, of Stax Records. I wanted to follow in the footsteps of Al Bell.

My records don't go platinum or gold. I think they go cedar.

I would love to sell millions of records, but that's never gonna be the case.

I might not have a conference championship or a national championship as a head coach, but I had the recruiting factor.

In high school, my dream was to go to the NBA. But when recruiting came around, the letters for football compared to basketball were like 25 to one, and my one wasn't from Duke.

I think everybody has a dream of flying at least once in their life. For me, it's been over and over a recurring dream.