Christina Grimmie Quotes

I got discovered off of YouTube.

People didn't go on YouTube to get famous back when I started.

I started writing music when I was 15 in my bedroom, and I'd post them on MySpace, and from there it shifted to doing covers on YouTube and building my Twitter.

My wife thinks I'm a narcissist, but I just think it's hilarious going on YouTube and seeing these covers. There are so many of them - literally hundreds! It's flattering.

The strange thing was, when I was starting on YouTube, even the paradigm of YouTube and Internet sensation - or whatever - that didn't really exist. So I didn't even know that that was a thing.

My fans were the ones who discovered me on YouTube. I don't ever want to forget that.

I knew I wanted to sing and maybe I had a chance at it, so I just started recording myself maybe five or six times a week and putting them on YouTube as much as I could with hopes that someone would recognize me.

It all started with social media, building a fan base via Tumblr and YouTube, doing covers, and releasing a project with original music. Labels started to peel interest then. It was around the same time I was applying for college.

I really grew my own fan base. I started posting videos on YouTube with the help of my parents.

I make YouTube viral videos all the time, and I made a video called 'Beauty and the Beat,' And as a strange, wacky coincidence, Justin Bieber dropped the song 'Beauty and a Beat.'

Celebrities have more influence to be able to reach out to people, but people are becoming famous on Facebook and social media every day.

The new artist is meeting the general public before they meet the record company. They're able to put the material on YouTube and have a million views before they even meet an executive at a record company, and get the deal based on that.

I would love to continue working behind the scenes in music - to produce and manage up-and-coming musical talent would be a dream!

My priority doesn't lie with the whole website and Facebook and such; I'm still walking down the road in a pair of real shoes. You need to just play as much as you can. Get in front of people, as I've always said. It doesn't matter if it's ten people at an open mic or opening a show for someone. Play all the time.

One of the biggest things that happened for me was YouTube.

You can't call me a Twitter phenomenon or a YouTube one. These things are useful, but so's hard gigging. One year I did 311 shows. I did six in one night alone.

I was not familiar with the Internet thing. Honestly, you know with all kinds of Internet media, I was not that familiar. I was not that kind of guy. Accidentally, 'Gangnam Style' happened, and you have YouTube and all other sorts of stuff like Facebook and Twitter and so on. So after that, I learned and learned.

It's very easy to make a viral video, but longevity and consistency, that's hard.

YouTube is such a funny little world. You can create a fanbase.

YouTube did more for me than 'America's Got Talent.'

When I first started, I wasn't trying to go viral. I just liked making funny videos, content that people would enjoy.

I don't want to be a Snapchat star. I barely want to be a YouTube star.

I was putting songs on Facebook and YouTube just for my friends. When one got over 100 plays, I would do a dance. The first time someone that I didn't know commented, it was a dream come true. A year and a half later, I played 'Fallon.'

I have no interest that I go to India or go to Hollywood or Bollywood. I'm not interested. I am a social media sensation. This is what I like.

I want to encourage the artists that haven't made it that social media is the truth. I made it from Instagram to having a most-added song to radio.