Alison Moyet Quotes

I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life.

My aspirations aren't to sell millions of records, but to write really good songs.

It feels so satisfying to hear a song I wrote come out of the radio.

So, once I've written a song, you know, I'm pretty happy with what the song is on its own terms.

I ain't heard anyone play like I do in my band and I am very happy about that.

It is nice to make a record and people like it, and it's encouraging.

I feel like when you make an album, it really has to hold its ground. It has to make a stamp.

I just hope that I'll stay around musically for as long as I can. I love to think that I will still be satisfying myself and other people as a musician until the day I die.

I feel happy about the songs I've written. I'm a great lover of the craft of songwriting, and I sure admire it in other people when I see it - past and present. I feel comfortable with what I have accomplished. I feel happy to be able to work in that environment, and that I have a lot of songs left to be written, somewhere.

I haven't many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.

I remember Elvis as a young man hanging around the Sun Studios. Even then, I knew this kid had a tremendous talent. He was a dynamic young boy. His phraseology, his way of looking at a song, was as unique as Sinatra's. I was a tremendous fan, and had Elvis lived, there would have been no end to his inventiveness.

I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way.

I'm so blessed that I can still be here to bring the music and have new generations of fans. My Pops would be so proud.

At the end of the day, it's nice to walk away from a set knowing that you're doing a movie that is not just for money and is not just pure entertainment.

I don't make music for any other reason than me enjoying music, and I am also glad that I am able to make a living of this.

Yes, I’ve made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with the thought of being paid for it...I have written because it fulfilled me. ... I did it for the pure joy of the things. And if you can do it for joy, you can do it forever.

The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world.

I think about legacy a lot, hopefully at the end of the day they say I was a good bluesman. That's all I want.

Writing is its own reward.

Every song I ever wrote, I wrote to be heard. So, if I was given a choice that 50 years from now I could either have a dollar or knowing that some kid was listening to my song, I'd go with the kid listening to my song.

I'd love to have a lifetime career. If you look at people like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, people who have been there forever and who still make relevant music that people want to listen to - that would be amazing. I hope to be able to do that. But above all else, I feel like I just want to be happy.

The idea of massive amounts of fame-having my face on Walgreens end-caps and pizza boxes-I don't fantasize about that. I'm happy with just being a songwriter. I'd rather have smaller numbers [of fans] that are really into what I'm doing than a massive amount of people that don't really know what I'm about.

No one can sing like June Carter so I just tried to sing my very best.

I always assume that nothing that I make is going to be a success, that everything I make is going to be a failure - not a failure but not some huge box- office success. If something is an artistic success, I'll be happy, but I'll maybe be the only person that's happy.

If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter.