Quotes About Success

The Beatles were just a band that made it very, very big, that's all.

Hollywood is about playing the game, and I can't think of any successful actresses who didn't play the game. There's a lot more renegades in the music business, from Patti Smith to Janis Joplin.

I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully.

I never really set out to do anything in the charts with music. It came as a total surprise that I did, and it's fun.

If anyone can figure out how to balance my celebrity and my dual careers in music and film, it's me. I don't feel frightened; I feel challenged.

It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.

I think Behind the Music is good for people like Leif Garrett and Motley Crue.

I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.

I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.

When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.

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

We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.

There were no guarantees that country music, whose roots were in the South, were ready for Charley Pride.

The music business is strictly business.

I intend to put them on the charts.

If my peers had a significant impact on my music, my music would probably be a lot more popular.

If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.

I'm a survivor in a business that constantly rejects you.

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.

There's a new hit rock group or singer every five minutes, but with country music, you have one hit and those people love you forever.

Creating art (music, books, films, etc.) can be beautiful and liberating, but trying to sell art, well, that is the movie business. There are few winners, and lots and lots of losers.

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.