Daniel Johnston Quotes

Fame is a thing that happens when you do something you love - nobody wants to be famous for the wrong reasons. It's not my goal, but if being more famous means I can get more music out, that's cool.

I'm tryna be the biggest artist I could be.

I wasn't trying to be famous when I started making music. I mean, that wasn't the first thing I wanted.

I wanted to be famous; I wanted to perform. Those things I really, really wanted more than anything else.

My name's Jennifer Ellison and one day I'm going to be famous!

I have an ounce of Lady Gaga's full-bodied ambition.

I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.

Wanting to be an actor and wanting to be famous are different.

I always wrote, you know, but it was just this thing I did; what I intended was to become a terribly famous artist, perhaps with a stopover as a singer.

I was always obsessed with being famous. I had Marilyn Monroe paper dolls as a child, and I was always obsessed with her. I've just been really driven in that direction, and none of my friends were. So, I don't know what put that bug in me at a young age.

I actually don't know anyone who wants to be famous for fame's sake, at least not anyone I respect. But you need to have a certain amount of power in order to be able to do what you want.

I think I'm no different from any artist in music. At least once, you want to see your name up on the top.

Yes, you can do it. You can dream about being on the cover of magazines; you can dream about being in a film.

I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.

I want to accomplish something for myself and set a bar for myself, for somebody to be like, 'Damn, Trippie legendary. He did such and such.'

I want to be famous. That's my ambition, and there is nothing wrong with it.

Every creativity has a motive. Either one does it for money, for fame, or for passion. My energies go out for passion.

You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.

In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.

I wanted to be successful, not famous.

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day? I couldn't think of anything worse.

It's seen as dirty to be ambitious. What if U2 weren't ambitious? We wouldn't have that gift we have from them.

Madonna had to break through; I knew she was going to make it big, because I could see how ambitious she was, in a very genuine and sweet way.

I tell people, 'It's just like a cliche, but it's true: In Hollywood, dreams can come true.'