Nicky Jam Quotes

David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.

I just write songs and hope that they do well. I'm sure there is some pressure from someone at the label, but I'd rather keep away from it.

I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.

I just want to make good music. That's it. That's what I care about.

The joy of songwriting only gets messed up if you are trying to follow up a big success, or you are trying to create a hit single, or if you have conscious thoughts of a particular outcome for the music.

I do not like people writing songs and then other people singing them. A lot of people don't even sing their own songs anymore. It's like producers these days have ghost producers; 'I don't produce, but I am a producer.'

I sat down one night and wrote the line rock, rock, rock everybody.

You're only as good as your last collection, which is an enormous pressure.

I started putting down my own pen and spending some time searching for the best songs out there possible. It doesn't matter if I wrote them or not.

In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It's not so competitive.

If people go into music with the idea of competing with other artists, then they're doing it for all the wrong reasons.

I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.

Most of the time, you're writing for radio, you're writing for a label, you're writing to stick a hit, and you end up coming out with something that isn't necessarily genuine.

I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

There is always a lot of pressure at Chelsea, but we are used to this and have to make sure we keep winning games.

I've been hearing what a lot of people been doing and what a lot of people been putting out musically, I've been listening.

I think at a club like Liverpool you always feel a bit of pressure. You should. But it doesn't bother me.

When you are in the second position and you want to be champions, you are always under pressure.

Lyrics mean a lot to me, and I won't record a song unless I can feel it. That's something I learned from Carter Stanley. Even when he wasn't perfect technically, he got inside a song and sold it emotionally.

Pressure has always been more of a friend than a foe for me with songwriting.

My biggest worry is that we have to keep making good music, and I want to do well, but I wonder if I will be able to.

There's always pressure at a big club.

Sometimes when people play for their country, I think there is that little bit of fear and pressure.

Tears for Fears was always very personal, but at the same time, it was always big business, a lot of pressure.

All I ever thought about was music and being a musician.