Olly Murs Quotes

I'm not heart-broken if I don't have a hit. But I guess a hit would help. It makes the money go up a bit.

If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.

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.

The Katy Perry stuff, those are great songs.

I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked at that time.

Any vehicle that conveys great songs and the ability to perform them, whether it's 'N Sync or the Backstreet Boys or One Direction, is all good.

If I have a hit, then I hope the people who like the hit song go out and buy my album so they can hear it all.

If there is a good musical reason, I think it might draw more attention and sell, though it is not guaranteed. To make a record without a musical reason, you have to either be a pop star who sells automatically or just be lucky.

I'm saying One Direction are brilliant! And I'm not kidding. Because their songs are really good.

I would hope somebody out there will still want to hear a Backstreet Boys song when I'm 50-something.

BTS as a group sort of took off with the success of our 2015 album that had our hit single 'I Need U.'

We were overwhelmed by how much the first album connected with people, but I wouldn't put us in the 'pop star' realm.

I think great music sells records, and I also think, do you want to be a reality star, or someone that actually has credibility? Because you can't have both.

We've never tried to write radio hits. If I hear our song on the radio, it's cool, and I'm proud, but it's never a goal.

I have sung some great songs, and fortunately, all have gone to become hits.

I just feel really lucky to have had some hits because we had a lot of time where we didn't have them. It's better to have a hit. You can ask anyone - U2, Green Day - and they'll tell you the same thing.

We never said we were hard-core or that we didn't want our music crossing over or being popular.

Any song that does well, we're happy with. All we can do is keep writing great songs and hope that one catches on.

I wanted to be the country version of Stevie Nicks, but before you knew it, I was heading in a pop direction, touring the world, having No. 1 singles, and loving every minute of it.

There's gonna be a lot of great songs, but there ain't going to be another 'Trap Queen.'

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.

It was really weird to have a hit. Of course, we had a certain level of fame in the Pixies, but nothing I had ever done had been mall-kid friendly.

Pop music has always been about the mainstream and what appeals to the public.

If it turns out to be a hit, well, good luck dealing with fame. And if it's not a hit and you can still survive and make music you believe in, well, then you're truly blessed. I think that's where we are now.

You can tell when you're in a hit.