Music Success Quotes

#1. Quotes = Success
Music = Success
Failure = Success
Loyalty = Success
Books = Success
Mistakes = Success
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These are the lessons for today, try to put them in your bag and start using them one by one!

Deyth Banger

#2. It's very easy for me to keep a low profile because the focus I feel is always on the music. Success and fame are two different things. And so I feel the success is always towards the music, which means that I can have a very normal and private lifestyle.

Enya

#3. Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.

Norah Jones

#4. For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them

Karl Lagerfeld

#5. Success in walking is not to let your right foot know what your left foot doeth. Your heart must furnish such music that in keeping time to it your feet will carry you around the globe without knowing it.

John Burroughs

#6. On YouTube, when you have a big viral success with a song that isn't your own, the natural inclination for most YouTubers is to keep doing that. What you really should do is show people that you actually have substance and can write your own music.

Charlie Puth

#7. People see my current success but don't realize I've worked hard to get where I am. I used to clean garbage off the Philadelphia docks and put a lot of time into developing my music.

Kevin Eubanks

#8. I think that with the success of, like, VH1's 'Behind The Music' and stuff like that, the fact that it's so successful, it's clear that people are interested in rock lives.

Allison Anders

#9. There's so many people in the music business or even in general who will tell you that you can't do this or that just because you haven't already had success but I feel like anyone can do anything they put their mind to as long as they stay devoted and stay passionate.

Jeremy Davis

#10. Success is based on music, not where you're from.

Estelle

#11. To Me, The Best Part Of Success, Is The Journey!

Latif Mercado

#12. I was trying to uphold what I thought feminism was as best I could by supporting women, by trying to create an opportunity to get women to get together, play music together and celebrate the fact that we are having great success making music on our own and together.

Sarah McLachlan

#13. When the mind runs free , write a song . music pours happiness into the soul and a happy soul creates eternal success

Kelsey Valentine

#14. Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.

Henry Flynt

#15. I believe that great success is possible in any field - from music to mathematics to macro trading.

Paul Tudor Jones

#16. Things can turn ugly so quickly in the music business, especially if you have an unexpected success.

Dean Wareham

#17. I was fortunate enough to hook up with Quincy Jones and had a lot of success. But the music of the '80s really changed when the '90s hit. For me to chase that dream or career of music, I started a family, started on 'Melrose Place,' so it was something I didn't have the time or energy.

Jack Wagner

#18. Mozart, who was buried in a pauper's grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his early thirties had poured out his inexhaustible gift of music, leaving the world richer because he had passed that way. To leave the world richer - that is the ultimate success.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#19. In a way, to have whatever people talk about as "crossover success," I think it means you start making bad music. I mean, when I'm flipping through the channels and see the VMAs or something, I don't really see any music there.

Conor Oberst

#20. When you grow up in the music industry, trying to be Britney Spears because that's what sells records and then you realize, 'All I have to do is be myself? I should have thought of that a long time ago,' it feels good to have success come from what's actually inside of you.

Jessica Simpson

#21. A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

Chet Atkins

#22. If you were to hold me to a standard of, 'What are you doing, singing about a scratch-off ticket at your level of success?' then my music's gonna be ridiculous.

Brad Paisley

#23. I've always done quite well as far as the charts are concerned. And yet I always felt I conveyed the spirit of the music I love, which didn't have any chart success.

Steven Morrissey

#24. The greatest predictor of musical success is the quality and the quantity of practice time.

Michael Griffin

#25. I want to burn as a beacon of possibility. I don't want nobody to misconstrue the commercial success I've had as anything other than an example of what black music is capable of. And what it's capable of is being more than just black. I'm not black or white anymore. I'm Cee Lo Green.

CeeLo Green

#26. Time and persistence has shown me that I can succeed at sharing my art with others as a musician while running my own music business. And that kind of success is as good as I could have ever wished for.

Bradley Joseph

#27. Jazz has a strong following in certain circles and there are annual jazz festivals in Puerto Plata and at Casa de Teatro in the capital. Grammy-winning Dominican jazz pianist Michael Camilo has had success on a global level. The classical music and ballet

Ginnie Bedggood

#28. I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.

Dan Hill

#29. I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.

Jon Bon Jovi

#30. The most crucial ingredient by far for success in music is ... what happens in the practice room.

William Westney

#31. It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.

Zubin Mehta

#32. My goals are - I don't need much. I'm a simple man. I think that success is having fun. And when I'm having fun doing music, I'm happy. If I can make a little money on the side doing it, I'm really happy.

Bruno Mars

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

Conor Oberst

#34. I already have success. I had it a long time ago. It's nothing to do with my music. Music is secondary, at this point. The good stuff is really good, but I have success because I'm at peace and I'm a good person in my everyday life and that's important.

Lana Del Rey

#35. Success was one of my weakest points. I was so ill-prepared for it. I never appreciated within myself the gift of success. I never accepted it. People gave me so much momentum and love, and people really got my music, but I didn't accept it. That's probably one of my biggest regrets.

Sophie B. Hawkins

#36. It is never easy for anyone to have success in music.

Billy Sheehan

#37. Music has always been a huge passion in my life. I've just had such success with my acting that it's really been right alongside of it, and I've always been writing and playing and singing.

Olivia D'Abo

#38. I wanted to resign from the planet, not just music. It stopped being fun with success. Money got in the way. Everybody got greedy, including me. Fear set in. I got miserable when I became a commodity.

Artie Shaw

#39. I guess something that I've noticed from American acts who had success in touring is more of an explanation as to their music. Which is I think quite funny. I think British acts might like to leave more to the imagination - maybe a bit more obscure perhaps - a bit more shy.

Ben Lovett

#40. If I have one success in my relationship history, it's with the people who listen to my music. I think that they'll be there with me forever, and I'll be there with them forever. And I'm totally satisfied with that.

Fiona Apple

#41. I studied music since I was four years old, and from that moment I became part of a family. And that family has taught me things; not only musical things, but things I have to face in life, and that is where the success of the system lies

Gustavo Dudamel

#42. I've never left music behind, but I've had success in television.

Vanilla Ice

#43. The most rewarding thing of my success has been the ability to use my music for many different causes that have become important to me.

Five For Fighting

#44. When making music I sink myself into the process as deeply as I can and forget all of the success.

Enya

#45. Some people are the greatest people on Earth with good hearts and will get in the studio and make the most negative music in the world for the sake of success. That's what the music business does to you. That's what capitalism does to you.

Lupe Fiasco

#46. The joy of songwriting only gets messed up if you are trying to follow up a big success, or you are trying to create a hit single, or if you have conscious thoughts of a particular outcome for the music.

Tim Finn

#47. I can't sing. As a singist I am not a success. I am saddest when I sing. So are those who hear me. They are sadder even than I am.

Artemas Ward

#48. The number one success in music supervision is when you can satisfy everybody on every level, creatively and in terms of the budget. That's when I'm most stoked, when we can balance the left-brained stuff and the right-brained stuff.

Liza Richardson

#49. I've been playing music for over 20 years now. I started playing when I was 14 years old. To everyone who has said I was an overnight success ... where have you been the last 20 years?

Randy Houser

#50. What we've had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we're doing - the music.

Janis Joplin

#51. The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial; it was something very personal to me.

Enya

#52. I grew up with music very much in my life. I achieved success by combining my training as an accountant with my family upbringing and love of music.

Zarin Mehta

#53. Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent.

Alejo Carpentier

#54. Failures Are The Cornerstones Of Success!

Latif Mercado

#55. A true measure of success is just to work hard and get my music out there and just be myself and be real.

William Beckett

#56. A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

#57. You just plant a few seeds, cultivate the shoots, and watch your career grow and branch out. It takes time and dedication. There are no overnight success stories in the music business!

Christopher Tin

#58. It's not just the 'Grammys' that I've pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success.

Alanis Morissette

#59. Independence has been key to the success and sustained growth of electronic music over the past 25 years.

Richie Hawtin

#60. Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser if you're making music until you prove otherwise.

K'naan

#61. Success happened little by little for me. I tasted the flavor of fame in small doses: I started at 10 years old when I won a music contest; I was performing at birthday parties, company meetings.

Shakira

#62. My secret to success is that I've always loved good music and people.

Sid Bernstein

#63. I know that when I like music, when it touches my heart, that it will touch your heart, too. That, I think, is the secret to my success.

Andre Rieu

#64. My fame came from my success as a country music singer.

Mindy McCready

#65. Lights are to drama what music is to the lyrics of a song. The greatest part of my success in the theatre I attribute to my feeling for colors, translated into effects of light.

David Belasco

#66. A lot of the lessons that are taught in football will promote success in anything you get into after football; for me, it just happens to be music. Being disciplined. Good character. Trying to do the right thing, and working hard.

Sam Hunt

#67. Just because you're a star on television doesn't mean that you can be a music phenomenon or an artist. You have to have the material to back it, and it's all about hit songs. I can name you every 'Idol' winner and why they didn't go on to have success - their songs. The ones who have - their songs.

Kara DioGuardi

#68. I think that part of my success was the fact that I would literally threaten your life if you got in-between me and what I wanted to do with my music. I was so drunk and in-your-face and so ADHD and so unhinged that I kind of got what I wanted.

Richard Patrick

#69. One of my dreams is to expand and make sure African music and Afro Beats music is really on the map. I would like to be a contribution to that success.

Ice Prince

#70. What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve.

Johann Sebastian Bach

#71. Success in the music industry isn't something that you wait for or hope for. It is something that you create, day after day.

Simon S. Tam

#72. If you make good music, people believe in you, but you have to have your websites poppin', you got to be on these blogs, you got to be at all these types of events. You got to be everywhere, and doing everything, and the more they see and hear you, the more chance you have at success.

Jadakiss

#73. There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'

R. Kelly

#74. Fortunately I've got a weak character, so I never did decide to dedicate myself to only one of my professions. And I'm very glad. After all, if I'd rejected chess or music then my life wouldn't have been two times, but a hundred times less interesting.

Mark Taimanov

#75. In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it's not what my writing is about. And if I start making it about that, it becomes impure.

David Friedman

#76. My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.

Wynonna Judd

#77. We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us.

Jerry Garcia

#78. A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of.

Michael Bolton

#79. The basic success of the conga came from ... that basic principle of African music and dance: everybody participates. The conga eradicated the distinction between performer and audience, broke down the wall of the proscenium ...

Ned Sublette

#80. My success set me up for life, and it meant that I could retire from the music industry at 27 to spend time with my newborn daughter and my wife. My time away from the spotlight allowed me to rediscover my love for music, and I'm doing it for me now and no one else.

Rick Astley

#81. It is not that I don't like contemporary country music because I do. I love it. I have recorded a lot and have had great success recording records that have not been very traditional country records.

Vince Gill

#82. Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically ... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately it was a band that didn't have any future.

Wayne Kramer

#83. If you look at an old piece of sheet music, there's all kinds of text on it, there are ads, there are proclamations of the greatest songs' success, there's artwork. So there is a tactile, physical experience of learning the song and the way it's notated.

Beck

#84. I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music 'made it' the same way. It's all different. There's no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.

Taylor Swift

#85. In business, you can have one massive success that earns $50 million overnight, and that's it. You're successful. End of story. But in the music business, you have to keep on doing it.

Noel Gallagher

#86. My music is very innovative, in a class by itself. Nobody else is saying anything of value. What I'm trying to do is get people to think, to alter their consciousness. It's not your typical platinum formula for success.

Wendy O. Williams

#87. Success means to wake up, grow up, and show up, living your unique self, giving your unique gifts to the larger evolutionary symphony of life which needs your music.

Marc Gafni

#88. It is an awesome tragedy in this life that, when asking what a person is and they reply doctor or lawyer or engineer, we don't say Well thats a nice little hobby, but why don't you take up writing or painting or music?

D.A. Botta

#89. I was wondering, do we get the best of Swedish music or just the best of Swedish music that speaks English? Sweden has a population of nine million. And with all these acts coming out it just seems like very ripe for musical success. I don't know how they do it.

Mike Pesca

#90. Five years after I started CD Baby, when it was a big success, the media said I had revolutionized the music business. But 'revolution' is a term that people use only when you're successful. Before that, you're just a quirky person who does things differently.

Derek Sivers

#91. If people are highly successful in their profession they lose their senses. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time for conversation. They lose their sense of proportion.

Virginia Woolf

#92. I sang in the coffee houses ... in the early 60's with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I had this deep, bassy voice. But I had incredible passion for the music I was singing.

Judy Collins

#93. It might take some here and there, but Apple's market share in the global computer business has really shrunk pretty far, and where they've been making success recently is not in the computer business but in the iPod music business.

Kevin Rollins

#94. When you're young and you play music, you have a peer group, you come out of a scene. There's a lot of people you know, and then you have some success, and it all goes away.

Adam Duritz

#95. The musicians are good and their music is catchy - it pulls the kids in in droves. Mike Bickle admitted to me that the music was a big part of their success at attracting young people.

Roger Ross Williams

#96. I've experienced tons of failure. I've been making music for 30 years, and I'd say failure and success have happened in equal measure.

Moby

#97. I'm always trying to push myself into unfamiliar places with the music, sometimes without success, I have to admit. But I'd rather be there than relying on a style that people recognize and want to follow.

Michael Gira

#98. If I die tomorrow, I've done the two hardest things anybody can do in this life with the least amount of security - music and acting - and I've had success in both. I can't really complain. I try not to live my life that way.

Yul Vazquez

#99. I would love to make my music and be completely anonymous, but that doesn't work. You can't have success and be faceless.

Sarah McLachlan

#100. Even when I do commercials, I try to tell a story about the product. With music, I try to tell the story of the person's struggle for success. And I believe every word I say. I never read anything on the air I don't believe in. I think people sense that about me, and they respond to it.

Casey Kasem