Quotes About Grammys

#1. I was in a bluegrass band. I made two records with a band called the SteelDrivers. They were nominated for two Grammys. I then I was in a rock band called the Junction Brothers; we made kind of '70s hard rock music.

Chris Stapleton

#2. The only thing that I really want to do is just be respected in the music industry ... And whether that means selling albums or winning Grammys or people just liking your music, thats what I really want to do.

Kris Allen

#3. This is what I do to keep my head screwed on semi-straight and keep my heart open. Whenever I sing, that's why I sing. Whether it's at the Grammys, whether it's in the bathroom, whether it's in front of 10,000 people or three people, by my guru's grace, my head stays in that place.

Krishna Das

#4. Thank you so much for breaking my heart because you got me four Grammys.

Sam Smith

#5. I think the Grammys are nothing more than some gigantic promotional machine for the music industry. They cater to a low intellect and they feed the masses. They don't honor the arts or the artist for what he created. It's the music business celebrating itself.

Maynard James Keenan

#6. I spent 25 years clearly understanding that I'm not gonna meet Bono or the Edge. But then it happened at the Grammys when we were all backstage and I just about fell out of my shoes.

Kristian Bush

#7. I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.

Beck

#8. Going from someone playing 15-people venues to performing at the Grammys, it was this giant leap and sort of showed me it was possible with what I wanted to do and the kind of music I wanted to write and artist I want to be to impact a lot of people.

Mary Lambert

#9. At the end of the day, the Grammys are about recognizing genres that are making an impact.

Keith Urban

#10. Bigger than the Beatles? Well, how many grammys did they win? Exactly, none, yet I have one, and I've never even released a CD.

Zach Braff

#11. If I was a singer who won those Grammys, I'd be gracing all the magazine covers ... I barely got asked to do an interview.

Robert Glasper

#12. I want to be on stage and perform and win Grammys and help out my family in Bulgaria, because they are struggling, and my mom and dad, too.

Leah LaBelle

#13. I was living in the U.K. I was back in New Zealand for the New Zealand Music Awards, which is like our annual New Zealand GRAMMYs.

Ladyhawke

#14. I think I'm happier, not just because of winning Grammys and selling records, but because it's really fulfilling to have all these things happen with something you love to do.

John Legend

#15. I have records in gold, in platinum, I have two Oscars, I have Grammys and so on.

Celine Dion

#16. My life goal right now is to die a good man, with a good heart, soul, and mind, with a good family, and a couple Grammys.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#17. The last thing I want is to walk into my house after a long day and see all the Grammys and awards. It would make me feel weird.

Alicia Keys

#18. Every year, they ask me to play the Grammys.

Prince

#19. I want the services to look and sound like the Grammys. It's not showy, but we represent God, and it should be first class.

Joel Osteen

#20. I used to love, and I still do, Lee Ann Womack. And Alison Krauss. I mean, how many Grammys does she have? She's just remained solid and true and great, and I respect that.

Kacey Musgraves

#21. Tinseltown is eerily silent when The Oscars, The Emmys and The Grammys, The Sag Awards, and The Golden Globes aren't in full swing.

Amanda Eliasch

#22. I feel so blessed to just have done what I had done. To be able to just use what God has given me is a blessing. You know, never mind the Grammys, never mind the records, never mind all of that. Just to be able to sing.

Whitney Houston

#23. Grammy asshole weekend in LA. Yuck ... The Grammys = the old guard / old media propping up their puppets trying to convince the outside world (and each other) they're relevant.

Trent Reznor

#24. [Justin Bieber]'s rich, right? Grammys are for music and not money. He's making a lot of money. He should be happy with that.

Patrick Carney

#25. The Grammys are supposed to be awards for artistic excellence ... Iggy Azalea's not excellent,

Azealia Banks

#26. Benjamin Franklin didnt win 21 Grammys right?

Kanye West

#27. People always complain about The Grammys because they're not a pop contest, but they're not supposed to be a pop contest. They're about excellence.

Emily Lazar

#28. The Grammys used me for ratings. And they were up 18 percent!

Justin Timberlake

#29. Growing up, people are like, 'Mary, we'll see you at the Grammys.' You're like, 'I'll be at the Grammys.' Then, you're actually at the Grammys! That actually is happening; it's not just something people are saying because they like your music. It's real!

Mary Lambert

#30. People do not respect music anymore ... They go by what's hot ... If you're hot, you deserve 4 or 5 Grammys ... Madonna is a genius and she only has 2 or 3 Grammys ... What is that about?

Timbaland

#31. I don't need material things like gold and platinum records on my wall, Grammys or Hall Of Fame nods.

Tommy Lee

#32. Not many people are able to say that they had in their professional career the chance to perform in two bands that won Grammys and were multiplatinum bands.

Scott Weiland

#33. I want to check the record books and see how many fathers and daughters have won Grammys together.

Norah Jones

#34. Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I'd pick my kids any day over any of it.

Toni Braxton

#35. All my life, I was even just wanted to attend the Grammys, like, just be there, so the fact that I'm nominated for Best New Artist, it feels like a dream.

Tori Kelly

#36. If I can win grammys then that means all you yet to be seen bedroom geniuses will one day TAKEOVER THE WORLD

Skrillex

#37. I have crushes, but they're all too old. Like Beyonce -she has a husband, I might get shot. I went up to give Beyonce a hug at the Grammys and Jay-Z said, watch out buddy! He was kidding, but you know ...

Justin Bieber

#38. When you win an award from the Grammys, it means a lot 'cause it's voted on by 100% by the people. It's not like some old guy sitting at a desk picking. It's doesn't work like that. It's voted on by your peers in the music industry.

Paul Wall

#39. If Americans thought music and art belonged together, they wouldn't have the Grammys.

Kristin Hersh

#40. I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be there.

Christina Aguilera

#41. 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.

Morrissey

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

Tyler Oakley

#43. Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on best male or female or any of that. We had to earn them.

Queen Latifah

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

Trent Reznor

#45. I've got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

Taylor Swift

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

Tyler, The Creator

#47. I want to produce with people that are going to be on the charts and win Grammys because having regular old street songs is cool, but I did all that already.

AraabMuzik

#48. This is the first time I've ever played the Grammys. I finally passed the audition.

Paul McCartney

#49. At the Grammys, you walk down the halls and everyone's got five security guards. You can't talk to anybody. You always feel out of place, like, 'Hey, the rednecks are in town!'

Dave Haywood

#50. I don't know if this is statistically right, but I'm assuming I have the most Grammys of anyone my age, but I haven't won one against a white person.

Kanye West

#51. I've always said I can't tell sometimes that people even have an album out until I see them nominated for a Grammy. I think country gets dumped on across the board by the Grammys.

Toby Keith

#52. I remember when both Gnarls Barkley and Justin [Timberlake] lost for Album of the Year [at the Grammys], and I looked at Justin, and I was like: 'Do you want me to go onstage for you? You know, do you want me to fight?

Kanye West

#53. The Grammys make me hate music, and certainly everyone in the ass-licking music industry.

Trent Reznor

#54. Country is not what you heard on the Grammys.

Crystal Gayle

#55. 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.

Imogen Heap

#56. The interviews have been a little tough due to the fact that we're interviewing dogs. We see a lot of contestants licking themselves, but we're used to that from covering the Grammys.

Melissa Rivers

#57. The Grammys thing doesn't even touch my world at all.

J. Robbins

#58. When those people get up at the Grammys and say, "I thank God", I always imagine God going, "Oh, don't, please don't thank me for that one. Please, oh, that's an awful one! Don't thank me for that - that's a piece of crap !"

Bono

#59. My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it's like awards don't mean anything.

Barbra Streisand

#60. Most of the time - at the Grammys for example - a DJ will perform with just their hands in the air because they can't do anything and that makes it a little awkward, I think.

Tiesto

#61. The night I was recognized for 'Daughters' at the Grammys was the night this record started. I knew I had bought the time to learn everything I needed before I started this one. 'Continuum' is not a shot in the dark, it's not a guesstimation.

John Mayer

#62. Some people won, some people lost [the Grammys] but Taylor Swift gets to wake up as Taylor Swift so she's winning.

Josh Peck

#63. But the Grammys is just not something I can take too seriously. It would be a mistake to hinge my happiness on something so completely out of my control.

Wesley Schultz

#64. I don't measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can't because I'll just end up crushed.

Drake

#65. 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

#66. Real talent doesn't always win championships, like real music doesn't always win Grammys.

Drake

#67. Well, today the Grammys is much much better than the Oscars. I think the differences in the shows are that the Grammys are much wilder. The Oscars is much more people in the industry. And people dress wilder, I think, at the Grammys.

Steve Martin

#68. The only reason someone would be calling this early the morning after the Grammys is to tell me I did something wrong."

The phone goes silent.

"Well, I'm going to have to disagree with that," I tell him. "In my estimation, you definitely did everything right last night.

Katie Delahanty

#69. There is so much good music in the U.S. and there is just a small section that gets recognised at the Grammys.

Patrick Carney

#70. I actually met Deadmau5 for the first time on the red carpet in Hollywood for the Grammys. I was there with my daughter, and he introduced himself to me. He said, 'Hey, I'm from Toronto.' I had a little conversation with him, and then I realized I'm talking to a guy with a giant mouse head.

Paul Shaffer

#71. I wore a mullet to the Grammys! I have no fear.

Zendaya

#72. Everything I know about pop culture I know from 'The Simpsons,' and they say the Grammys aren't very good.

Jonny Greenwood