Steve Stoute Quotes

Whether it be Beyonce or Justin Bieber, we see singers who have absolutely nothing to offer anyone as they walk off stage clutching three Grammys in each hand.

Nothing wrong with pop!

I think what's more important to The Prodigy is that, whatever number your album goes in at, or the single, or however many plays it gets, or doesn't get, or awards you get, or don't get; our reward, as a band, is to write the best album we can and then go to Download festival and rip it to pieces.

I don't want to be the cranky old guy, but a lot of critics are too forgiving of mediocre artists. When you see these 'American Idol' people on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' being written about as serious artists, there's something wrong with that. You can erase them from the history of rock n' roll, and you wouldn't notice.

I think it has been a weird mistake to have people with their own music careers going on and judging people because when they're too critical, it affects them. They don't want to be that honest, because they need to keep their appearance up.

I had no idea what to expect when we did Ladies' Night. I didn't think it was going to get nominated for a Grammy. I didn't know that we would have to perform on the MTV Awards show.

The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do with musicianship.

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.

I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.

Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.

I'm hungry for VMAs and Grammys. That's my main goal.

Even though the popularity and the fanbase is much much greater, and more people have heard about me through things like the Grammys and the Ivors and touring and word of mouth, it doesn't reflect in the sales of the record and doesn't go into my pocket.

Why don't the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap - like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided.

I have a love-hate relationship with the Grammys because I don't see the music world as a competitive sport.

Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more.

Adele's amazing, I think the world of her and her music and I think Tinie Tempah is cool. To work with someone like Kanye West would be awesome.

Books don't live and die by awards. You don't listen to an Hector Lavoe album because it won some awards.

If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren't going to be interested.

I'd much rather be worrying about playing that note in tune, and picking out the best way to arrange the song, rather than thinking about pricing for the download. It's not art.

The fact is that we take music very seriously.

I believe that I'm going to have a Grammy.

I'm a genuine lover of music. I've always watched the Grammys from home.

My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.

I would love to have a song that I wrote by myself to win a 'Song of the Year' award.

I plan on making a lot more records, and hopefully one of them will be Grammy worthy.