Frankie Ballard Quotes

I got about 6037 songs I wrote myself and I'm trying to get them on the market and I just wish people could hear them and stuff but they'll do pretty good.

When you're young, the goal is to have a hit. You get a little older and the goal becomes to get to make another record.

Even though there are incredible songs floating around Nashville, it's important for me to have my voice heard.

The end game is always a hit song.

When I was a little girl, my dream was just to hear my song on the radio. It was very fascinating to me, and I was like, 'How do I do that?' Now it's like, 'Oh my God, my song is on the radio!'

When I first started writing songs, I was probably about ten or twelve years old, and the first thing you think as a songwriter is, 'Can this be a hit? Can this come out, and people are going to hear the song and like the song, and then they're going to like you, and you'll get famous and rich?' That hasn't changed a bit.

The only way to have longevity is to have good songs.

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

First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.

The whole industry evolves around a great song.

If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.

I'm never doing a new album. I'll probably do nothing but singles. I'm as good as anybody out there lyrically and conceptually and can go toe to toe with the best of them throughout history. But I don't know how much longer I'll be doing it. It's not really fun anymore.

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

Well, Neighbours wanted to do a song on the show, and they asked me what songs I had. I told them I'd just written this song, called Born to Try, and I had just gone overseas and spoken to some people from Song about it.

I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.

I had pretty much raised my kids and my first wife and I were divorced, so I began, in earnest, to start my musical career again. Going for the big record deal and all of that.

After two years in the songwriting world, I wrote 'All About That Bass.' L.A. Reid heard it and signed me as an artist.

You know, I get a lot of people pitching songs to me.

At the end of the day, you sign a record deal and you understand where it could go if you had the right song.

I'm hoping to become a recording artist and make albums and go on tour.

I never intended to set out and be a singer-songwriter. I just sort of became one because I put out my own record.

Put out great music, and that's that.

It only took me six months to get a record deal, but it took me 20 years to have a hit.

I love music, so if I wasn't singing, I would probably still be working in the music industry. I love songwriting, so I'd probably be a songwriter.

I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air.