Akon Quotes

I want to have hit records, but I'm not searching to say, 'All right, I need this to be in the club. I need this, that.' I'm just making quality music.

I just want to keep saturating the market and radio with as many hit records as I can.

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.

To remain relevant though, I think making great records is the key.

Everybody used to be busy writing songs - great songs - that became hits. Now everybody's writing hits. Everybody's desperately writing a hit because they know they can't survive if they don't have a hit. Where in the past, we were writing a song like 'More Than Words' on a porch, not really believing it was gonna be a hit.

I want every song on it to be a hit.

The truth is, that's what we moved to Nashville to do - to learn how to write hit songs. We weren't necessarily trying to get on college radio. We're trying for mass appeal.

People just want the hottest records. It's not really about all the names attached to the project. It's about the work.

Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.

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

I become more seasoned, it's less interesting to try and compete in the pop market.

The more people who come from musical backgrounds and go into promotion, production, songwriting, A&R, plus get their business head together, the better. They'll not only understand the business aspect, they'll also have a true passion and ear for how quality is represented musically.

I don't believe in the philosophy of stumbling across hit records.

In pop music, the public usually see the results - the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours - but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won't make it.

Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame.

You still have that competitive thing where you want to try to make hits. That won't go away, unless the mayor of show business says my time's up.

There were a lot of times where there was a great deal of fodder recorded and played, because there was a market for it - just as there is today. And there were more bad bands than there were good bands - I think that should always be remembered.

If people knew what made hits they'd make more of them, so to have the illusion of control over one's career isn't something I can even pretend to have.

Music is so hard. It's a struggle to get people to care. It's hard to make an impact in today's world because people aren't buying records anymore.

Nowadays people sell millions of records that can't sing.

I've just been fortunate to havehad a lot of hit records, though Human Wheels doesn't qualify as a hit record-but it's really the best single I've ever had.

People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.

Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.

Artists don't always know. Almost every song I ever recorded that was a hit at the majors that the promotional people picked I didn't think it would be a hit. I was wrong every time!

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