Quotes About Success

I'm building an empire. How do you know I won't be the next [Universal Music Group Chairman/CEO] Doug Morris one day? I'm doing a hell of a job, and I'm on the road to that next level.

I think, back in the day, when I was first starting to make music, all I wanted to do was to get a record deal.

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

I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name's getting out there more, thanks to all the good people at Alligator Records and at my management company.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. Ain't nowhere else in the world where you can go from driving a truck to cadillac overnight

The best decision I ever made, period, was to get into the music business.

There's a lot of money in doing score music. You can get a chance to get nominated for an Oscar.

I never had the feeling I ever had to make a dime doing anything.

Ugly girls generally don't become successful in music. And it sucks because it's a standard that just exists.

Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.

Real talent doesn't always win championships, like real music doesn't always win Grammys.

The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.

I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound and knowing the music business the way I do - all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.

If you want to make money in music, get into the band uniform business.

I sat down with my long time business partner and Rap-A-Lot CEO James Prince to review the music that we had and quickly came up with an outstanding track list.

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

The music business is not a good place for people who don't know things.

Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works.

It's pretty cool to see how far music can take you.

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

The artists who endure are the ones who stay focused even after they have reached the top of their profession.

The music industry is really funny, when you have a hit record, everyone knows who are you, everyone wants to do duets with you, then if you have a miss, people suffer from amnesia.

Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.

I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected.