Quotes About Fame

Luckily, I think, I never really wanted to be famous, I just wanted to make movies.

I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.

I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.

The Beach Boys are not a superstar group. The music is the superstar of the group.

Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music.

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

Suckle was the first West Indian DJ and he had this fantastic source of music.

If I could just have my music be played for many people no matter what method or way is used, I would reply that that is not the case.

You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.

I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. This town is about music. It's about the kind of music I like.

I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.

I don't really need to be remembered. I hope the music's remembered.

Making music for Radiohead is like going to the bathroom, I'm just going to the bathroom constantly, and millions are watching me go to the bathroom.

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

I'm well known because I do music at a professional level, and a certain magnitude.

I get all these loser preps coming up to me asking for autographs and all this crap, and I really want to tell them, 'My music is not for people like you!

I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart] of rock music.

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.

[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

When we were at the Apollo, Holiday was a block away. I asked her for her autograph.

Your music sounds better on the radio, for some reason. It's an amazing feeling. I hope it never goes away.

I'm uncomfortable with being famous. I hate it. But I love making music. I love getting paid to do it, and I love getting on my boat after I get paid to do it.

I didn't get into music to become famous and I didn't get into music to become rich either - I got into because I liked it.