“I think 'All Out of Love' is my favorite song because it's been the most successful. It's been in about 30 movies, it's been a number one record, and it keeps getting played on the radio, it's always somewhere.” ThinkingSongLove IsNumbersSuccessfulRecordsMy FavoriteRadioFavorite Song Author:Graham Russell
“When someone tells me what he or she was doing the first time they heard a song of mine, then I've done a good job. If my song becomes about your life, then I'm successful.” IfsFirstsDoneJobsSongSuccessfulHeardMinesFirst TimeGood Job Author:Lyle Lovett
“In our country there's never been a successful progressive struggle that did not have a soundtrack, whether it was the civil rights movement, workers' rights movement, women's rights movement. There's got to be songs at the barricades, and those are the kinds of songs that I try to write.” WritingTryingKindCountrySongStruggleSuccessfulRightsMovementWorkersCivil RightsOur CountryProgressiveWomens RightsCivil Rights MovementSoundtracksBarricadesWorkers Rights Author:Tom Morello
“David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.” IfsWayIdeasFeelingsHomeSongMy OwnHalfSuccessfulStreetsStupidDancingBombsBeing SuccessfulCoveredVansWay HomeHalf WayVan HalenPlaying Someone Author:Eddie Van Halen
“First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.” WritingFirstsTwoRunningSongSuccessfulFiveWonderfulLuckAlbumsPops Author:Barry Manilow
“My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix, as we've talked about. It has very little to do with what people think success is. I actually feel successful right now, even though I don't have an album out, or a video or a song on the radio, because I'm trying to be obedient to His will.” PeopleThinkingFeelsTryingLittlesSongSuccessfulRight NowConceptsRadioAlbumsVideoObedientEscaping Author:Lauryn Hill
“You have to keep challenging yourself. I've always tried to do that, and I'm not saying I've always been successful. Maybe I've rewritten the same song; it's inevitable, but I've always been mindful of taking the writing somewhere else. You can't stick in your little comfort zone.” WritingLittlesSongChallengesSuccessfulComfortSticksInevitableZoneComfort ZoneSomewhere ElseChallenge Yourself Author:Paul Weller
“The one thing I've learned in the last ten years is that successful artists don't get paid to write and sing songs, they get paid for the psychological roller coaster they're going to have to ride. That's the hard work.” WritingYearsHardLastsArtistSongSuccessfulOne ThingHard WorkTenPaidPsychologicalI've LearnedRoller CoasterCoastersThings I've LearnedSuccessful Artists Author:Enrique Iglesias
“The most important ingredient to making a song work is the magic. You've got a melody, you've got words, but on the more successful songs, there's a sort of magic glow that just happens and you can feel it happening. It just makes the songs sort of roll out.” FeelsImportantHappensSongSuccessfulMagicHappeningsMelodyIngredients Author:Paul McCartney
“In 1916, when Johnny Heartfield and I invented photomontage in my studio at the south end of the town at five o'clock one May morning, we had no idea of the immense possibilities, or of the thorny but successful career, that awaited the new invention. On a piece of cardboard we pasted a mishmash of advertisements for hernia belts, student song books and dog food, labels from schnaps and wine bottles, and photographs from picture papers, cut up at will in such a way as to say, in pictures, what would have been banned by the censors if we had said it in words.” IfsWayMayHas BeensSaidBookIdeasEndsSongCareersMorningSuccessfulFivePiecesCuttingDogPossibilityStudentsPaperTownsWineSouthPhotographStudiosInventionLabelsNo IdeaClockBottlesImmensePapersBeltsAdvertisementsBannedSuccessful CareerNew InventionsDog FoodHerniasPaper Cuts Author:George Grosz