Hits Quotes - page 11

It's funny, because I don't have a very addictive personality in any way except for things like stories or books or movies or TV. I just get, like, completely enamored and lost in that world, especially when one really hits the right way. Like, I just can't do anything else. (Mae Whitman)
Sometimes you just have to get a shock to grow up and wake up, and I've had lots of shocks because it's as though I don't learn the lessons, so something new comes and hits me. View quote
Marianne Faithfull
We didn't just want to go out and do that whole greatest hits thing. View quote
Andy Taylor
MTV definitely has the effect of narrowing the range of music that hits the mainstream. On the other hand, isn't that the effect of television in general? View quote
Ann Powers
Because my musical background is so diverse, it lends me to have very much my own style and it helps me to relate to the music as I'm going to play it. I just write. And if it comes out country, it's a country song. The funny thing is, I write all across the board. I just write what hits me at the time. View quote
Casey James
I write when the urge hits me, getting the words down as fast as I can type and then I step back from what I just wrote and start a dialectical process where I begin challenging my own writing. View quote
Donald McKay
Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets. View quote
George Murray
I'm trying to be like the old Roc- A-Fella and Bad Boy, influencing people culturally but having hits at the same time. View quote
Hit-Boy
Having glue stuck to your face in winter is not fun. It freezes as it hits the skin. View quote
Jay Ryan
You don't have to be African American to really enjoy 'Frisky Business'. But as far as being black, a lot of people in New York have been stopped and frisked, so that hits home for them. View quote
Jessica Williams
I think 'Teenage Wasteland' was one of those cult hits like 'My So-Called Life', something that came along and got a lot of viewers and then somehow fell into a bad timeslot that nobody ever watched, and then the network pulled the plug prematurely. (Jewel Staite)
I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people. View quote
Magnus Scheving
Record labels collude with some of the radio stations, and the radio stations have their play lists, dependent upon what they call the, quote, 'hits.' What's commercially viable gets recycled, endlessly repeated, and as a result of that, the progressive music can't break in. View quote
Michael Eric Dyson
We came from the '60s era, when we started and made so many hits. The song value from the '60s was so darn good, you've got The Beatles, The Beach Boys, all of Motown, and plenty of other people, too... amazing records, amazing songs. View quote
Mike Love
I actually have heard of acts who only do their new album, and don't do their hits. I've never been in that mind set. View quote
Mike Love
Risk is the sort of word that is easy to discuss upfront but tough to handle when it comes time to pay the piper. There will always be some who wimp out and second-guess when the pain hits, but that is a childish reaction. View quote
Nathan Myhrvold
I'm no different from anybody else with two arms, two legs, and forty-two hundred hits. View quote
Pete Rose
I'm not going to say that every record I've put out was the greatest record in history, but I'd stand by even the bad ones. Don't make excuses, make hits. View quote
Pete Waterman
I'd like to do a pop album with an R and B influence. I definitely want to have those big ballads with the uptempo hits as well. View quote
Pia Toscano
There's only a couple stats that matter. No one cares how many blocked shots a guy has, how many hits. View quote
Paul Coffey
Michael had to pound me a couple of times to convince me not to go stage a rescue." Shane shrugged. "He hits like a girl, for a vampire. (Rachel Caine)
I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia. View quote
Rick Springfield
Not to be arrogant, but I have a lot of hits, so my phone stay ringing, but it's consistent. View quote
Rico Love
Three thousand hits is something that should stand for itself. View quote
Rod Carew
You can hear some artists, hear five of their albums and still have no idea who they are. But if you've heard most of what I've recorded, you know me. You go from 'Honesty' to 'Going Through Hell' - you can listen to the hits, and they pretty much reflect who I am. 'Take a Back Road' is the same thing. View quote
Rodney Atkins