Edie Brickell Quotes

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

I've never really aspired to the spotlight; I just wanted to do music, which is kind of weird because music comes with that spotlight.

There is a big difference between No. 1 and No. 2. I don't care who wrote it. I'd love to one day have a No. 1 that I wrote, but if that ain't in the cards, whatever. My job is right now is to make the best music I can and try to get it to the people, whether it be something that I wrote or not. It's my job to be the best I can for the fans.

I think it's all about the people who listen to your music, and loving playing and writing. Once you've got those two, and they're your main two priorities, then radio and TV and all the other stuff that comes with it will come. But that's not the be-all end-all.

I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular.

I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received.

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.

Nas has always been uncomfortable with being famous and accessible. Nas makes music because he loves music, not because he wants the trappings of music, such as fame.

Good bands won't get famous anymore unless they get really lucky.

How lucky can one guy get? I was a runaway, and then I was in one of the biggest bands in the world. I've sold out every arena. I've sold millions and millions of records.

I made an album I'm very proud of, and that's about it.

There were aspects of stardom I didn't like, which were of no consequence, really, but the positive things far outweighed the negative. By the time I came to write 'Setting Sons,' I felt my writing was more like prose, set to music.

Getting to No. 1 makes everyone feel better; of course it does. But it's swings and roundabouts with these things. Sometimes you make a great record, and it clicks with people. And other times it passes them by; there's nothing you can do. It's still the same record.

The way Aventura became successful was so weird. We didn't have a major label. They say everything has a reason, but it's not easy to find. The only thing that was right was the music.

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

I am getting all this fame, but I don't absolutely know what I should rap about.

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

When I started off in music, I started with a real innocence, a real love for the instrument, the writing the songs, the playing the songs and the sharing and the recording and experimenting. It was exciting. Then, this thing called success came, and something happened at some point where I became disenchanted, and I lost the innocence.

Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.

When I started music, I think it was responsible for keeping me sane, because training as a dancer really kept me in good spirits amid all the crazy stuff that happened when I first became popular.

I loved being a rock and roll star, but it wasn't what I wanted in life.

The ultimate revenge is being on Top Of The Pops.

I feel like have a lot of music left to cut in my life.

All these interviews I'm doing - this is the kind of stuff that I was dreaming about doing when I was younger. I was praying for people to want to write about me. I wanted people to hear my music. I wanted to perform. I wanted to be on billboards.

I don't like the word 'rock star' or 'super star.' I am a guitar player, a songwriter who got lucky because I stayed at it and didn't give up, long enough that people noticed me.