Music Fame Quotes

I really felt like 'Chandelier' was a big pop song. But we weren't sure what would happen if I wasn't willing to show my face and do promo and go on tour and do the traditional kind of pop strategy. So I had no expectations.

I know Pentatonix. I knew them before they were even a group.

After putting out songs with 26 million views on YouTube, your life changes a little bit. Suddenly everyone's like, 'Where's the album?'

None of my heroes were big rock stars, and I thought, 'This isn't how it's meant to be.' It wasn't about making music so much as selling it.

Winning 'American Idol' really anoints you the opportunity to have a great career; it does not anoint you a career.

I think - I honestly think that my story is not 100 percent that unique. I think that I'm - just the whole rock star part kind of throws an interesting twist on it.

I refuse to age disgracefully in rock 'n' roll.

There's not a platinum record hanging in my house anywhere. It doesn't exist here. I'm over it. They're all in the garage, wrapped up in bubblewrap.

Look at Macklemore! Perfect comparison, we're two artists from the same city who both had meteoric rises at different periods. I probably sold more albums, because in that era you couldn't steal them; you had to go to a record store to buy them. But Macklemore had more power.

You don't really need a lot of hype and to be famous to sell songs.

I'd love to have a hit record. I don't believe anyone that says they wouldn't like that.

Like every artist that comes out, you want to make a mark; you want to be a household name and you want to be someone that people are going to look back in ten years/fifteen years' time and go, 'I love this guy Olly Murs. He was brilliant back in the day; he was someone I really, really liked.'

The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.

It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.

I'll never take any credit for Lady Gaga or Katy Perry's success. But I knew within a month that Gaga was going to be huge.

When I was younger and had made the decision to make a career in music, becoming famous was something that I dreamt about.

When you look at what people consider success in the music industry, it's just terrible music.

Never in my life have I met bigger rockstars than Sugar Ray.

I've always wanted to have one of those hits on the radio, but we haven't really been able to crack that code.

I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture.

I knew Kanye way before he was signed.

I try to not think too much about how people are receiving my music. And I'm not really famous enough that it's a problem.

After bands become successful, they always make that choice to do the record about how cool or how hard it is to be in a successful band.

I hate fame. There's this assumption that everyone wants it - that by being a musician, I've signed up for it at some point. But personally, what I signed up for is sharing my music. I've always said I'd rather have four No. 10 songs than one No. 1 hit.

It's a weird thing to say you want people to be sick of your song, but I guess that's what happens if your song goes really well.