Scott McKenzie Quotes

I think 'All Out of Love' is my favorite song because it's been the most successful. It's been in about 30 movies, it's been a number one record, and it keeps getting played on the radio, it's always somewhere.

There's gonna be a lot of great songs, but there ain't going to be another 'Trap Queen.'

It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record.

I really like Ariana Grande, Jessie J, and Nicki Minaj's song, the 'Bang Bang' song. It's the new 'Lady Marmalade.' So good.

My favorite artist in the world is Michael Jackson, and he revolutionized the music video aspect of music.

We call them impact songs, and people buy impact songs. But you just never know what those songs are going to be. One of those songs that really went through the roof for us was 'Big Green Tractor,' which I thought was kind of a fun little ditty song that I never in a million years thought would be as big as it was. But it was.

In 1983 I'd had a number one. I'd sold 6 million copies of Total Eclipse Of The Heart all over the world.

I'm not a pop star.

I think that it's going to be interesting to see where Beyonce's career goes.

Pony' was one of the biggest songs of my career. It was really hard to follow that up.

BTS as a group sort of took off with the success of our 2015 album that had our hit single 'I Need U.'

Look, when a song becomes a hit, it happens because of its tune and melody, and not for the lyrics in the first place.

I'd love it if one of my songs became a hit.

When 'Joker' came out in '73, I finally got a viral hit. Every DJ who heard it played it.

We used to call it recurrent airplay when someone had a hit.

The song This Kiss was definitely my breakthrough song. After that, Breathe was my breakthrough album.

I was such a fan of Cyndi Lauper and her whole 'Girls Just Want to Have Fun' thing.

How could they call him wacko? He's sold more records than anybody in history.

Of course, the kids who had never heard of a person called Ben E. King were then aware of the name associated with the song. That gave a tremendous lift to me as an artist.

Fame came quickly. I was only 19 when I secured my initial recording contract and my first two hit records - 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and 'Cars' - were number ones.

I had no idea 'Big Green Tractor' was going to be as big a hit as it was. You just can't predict those things.

The Katy Perry stuff, those are great songs.

Crossfire's done very well. I knew it was a great song, but I didn't know it would be so big.

It's a weird thing to say you want people to be sick of your song, but I guess that's what happens if your song goes really well.

'If I Can Dream' is my all-time favorite Elvis song. It was a big record, but not as big as it could have been. It was one of those records where you'd think it sold 10 billion copies, but it didn't.