Loren Gray Quotes

From day one when you're singing, you're dreaming about making that first album and making your break into whatever music you want to break into.

It's weird. Prior to having my first record, Corey Hart was just my name.

When you are in your 20's and 30's, you just want a hit record and you don't really care how it happens.

No, in 1968 I still wanted to be a Pop Star, and be about the music. Now, I want to be just about the music.

I was a 10 million-plus selling artist.

I think - I honestly think that my story is not 100 percent that unique. I think that I'm - just the whole rock star part kind of throws an interesting twist on it.

I think I never had this grandiose dream of being any country music star. I just slowly progressed into that's what I'm doing.

I never thought in my wildest dreams I'd ever be offered a record deal, and to get a Christmas No. 1 would be huge for any performer, let alone an ex-footballer.

A moment for me that changed everything was hearing my song on the radio for the first time.

In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.

I'ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary.

I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.

I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.

The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.

I think a lot of my dreams have come true, and my next dream is to have a No. 1 selling album. A Grammy-award-winning album.

As an artist, you dream about accumulating enough successful music to someday do just one greatest-hits album, but to reach the point where you're releasing your second collection of hits is beyond belief.

It will shock many - I've lived a full life and really enjoyed my time as a pop star.

All I could think about was, 'I just wanna blow him away. I wanna make him proud, because I really wanna sign with Timbaland and spend the rest of my career making music with Tim.'

Well, I'm a huge fan of Ryan Adams, who's from North Carolina. And he's beginning to break really quite big.

You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.

I know I will never have a hit single in America.

I would love to sell millions of records, but that's never gonna be the case.

I love Madonna! If you want to see the Madonna I know, just go on YouTube and you'll see those early interviews before the record came out. She was giddy and wonderful and giggly and happy and so excited looking towards the future.

I was always in love with music, but my parents never really saw that I had talent, and it was really just by chance that I made it into the Menuhin School, and from then on my life changed. And that was when I realized, OK, this is what I want to do. But, until then, it was really just a passion, a hobby.

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