Ari Lennox Quotes

I'm so grateful to Spotify for the enormous support to the reggaeton movement.

You don't know how a song is gonna do; you don't know where it's gonna live. You know if it feels real, if it feels authentic.

It's kind of crazy to see how many people actually listen to my music.

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.

Now so many really good groups who have had a first major hit can't get a deal for a second one.

I actually don't think that I'm gonna sell a lot of records.

The fact that 'Honey, I'm Good' made such a splash and that people were catching it on radio, on Spotify, on Pandora, it's driving everybody to go hear the album.

I am really excited and thankful for opportunity to work with Cotto Promotions, Tidal and Roc Nation.

I think when you have one song that does really well, people love you from that song, or they hate you from that song.

When I first heard 'Let Me Love You,' I knew immediately it was going to be a hit. I believed in it and I had to literally force it down the throats of his record label, who weren't believers at first.

'Fix' was a song that definitely put me on the map and changed everything for in me my career. I'm really thankful for it.

I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.

When I put out 'Video Games' in May 2011, it was a 5:25-minute love song; I was surprised when a lot of people said they were listening to it. I was surprised when it went to the radio, without me even knowing how something like that even happens!

Obviously, it's great to know that your music is being listened to.

I wanted to have a go at a pop career. My first single, 'Baby I Don't Care', was a hit, and the second, 'Bye Bye Boy', reached the Top 20.

I mean that'd be great if we could continue to be staples of alt-rock radio. I don't take that for granted.

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.

YouTube is an amazing platform for young musicians - although it's harder to get noticed now that everyone is on it.

Some musicians like to decorate their walls with discs saying: '1 million records sold in America.' I prefer to put up discs marking sales in lesser-known countries.

I have seen more bad songs make it because of MTV than good ones that haven't.

I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.

I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying my music and telling me about it online.

If people stop being interested, it's because you haven't written a good enough album. Music will always be the most powerful thing. It doesn't matter what record labels or journalists say. It's the song.

Even though I've been reasonably well known for quite a long time, I still can't get a record on daytime radio or on MTV.