Angie Martinez Quotes

I knew what I wanted to be, but I didn't know exactly how to get there. I thought you move to Nashville, you sing downtown, and someone discovers you, and you become a country music star. I had no idea.

I plan on making a lot more records, and hopefully one of them will be Grammy worthy.

I've gotten tons of awards and I believe when it's my time to get a Grammy, I'll get a Grammy.

My goal is a Grammy so my songs will have to be good.

I'm hungry for VMAs and Grammys. That's my main goal.

A Grammy is really nice, but having lots of fans is really nice, too. I think just getting a record out is a success on its own.

Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.

The industry does have some influence on who gets other awards. With the Mercury Prize, they don't. Jon comes from the business, but his heart is still very much in the music. Currently, we have about 12 major names that have said they want to be a part of MUDDA.

I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.

I wouldn't do just a tour, it would have to be an album, and the album would have to beat Pull.

Even in America, we're not a huge act by any means, Major Lazer.

To tell you the truth, the nomination for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame totally surprised me. I had no idea that was coming. I know a lot of people like to say it's enough just to be nominated. But I've been nominated for so many things, I'd like to get this one. I think it's a long shot, considering I never had a No. 1 rock n' roll record.

I've been able to experience so many things since I've had my record deal.

I really didn't think I was going to make records to where I make a living out of it.

For the first six years of my career I was independent. I got on to a major and did my thing there. I had platinum and gold records and all that.

Success happened for me when I dropped my first major label album for Def Jam, 'Live From The Underground.'

I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far as I know, had been on an airplane until Columbia sent us to Los Angeles.

My sons are coming out with music. Square Off, they're called.

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.

We had an EP out and all of a sudden we find record companies are interested in us, and we're thinking, 'Oh, that's really nice, but we don't think we're ready for it.'

I always envisioned myself being a rapper and being in the game and having success, but you never know what it feels like or how you're going to be when you're there.

I want to sell out arenas and make an album and work with some of the best artists in the world.

To come out in the music business, you only really get one shot. A lot of people get to play small gigs first, and build up that way, without anyone really seeing them.

With the 'Silly Boy' track, I mean, people knew about it, but it wasn't really like, 'oh that's Eva Simons.' But when 'Take Over Control' came out, that's when people started to get interested in me personally, which is great because it was something I really believed in.

I was kind of going that route with my country music. Indie country. Which would work, if I was playing on Americana stages. Unless I had a television outlet like 'Glee'.