Richard Marx Quotes

I always knew 'My Dawg' would be a hit, but I didn't even know what a hit was. When I made the song I knew it sounded hard.

Sometimes, I make 50 songs and pick out the best 10. I've been in the studio all day, all night, making the beat, writing the raps. You never know what's gonna be a hit.

We always make music and continue to make hits.

It doesn't take long to make catchy songs. That's not my problem.

When I'm making songs, I never call them hits. I knew 'Bandz A Make Her Dance' was a good record, but I never knew it was gonna be a hit.

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.

Things like 'Lucky Man' were never written to even be a record, let alone a hit record.

Mike Campbell and Don Henley and I wrote 'The Heart of the Matter,' which was a huge hit for Don.

I just sat down and thought, I'm going to write a song today, I'm going to give it a try. So I just stuck it on a tape like everything else. That was just another song.

I've had this song in a drawer for a long time, maybe seven or eight years. Every time I'd do an album, I'd take it out and listen to it, and always liked what it had to say. Plus when Garth came in and sang on it, that made it really special.

The moment I wrote my first song, I got addicted.

If you're thinking the road ahead is a little shorter than the one behind you, you're thinking about trying to write a good song and hoping to make a decent record of it.

I think it's all about making records when you're inspired to make them.

I think that every song has to be like it could be the biggest hit of my album.

I just write a song, and it just comes out however it wants to. And some of them are catchy songs like 'Here Comes The Sun,' and some of them aren't, you know.

I can write a song in about an hour if it's a simple country song.

Putting together a hit record is like putting together a puzzle.

I spent the summer of '88 indoors, writing 'Shoot You Down,' 'Bye Bye Badman,' and 'Don't Stop.'

I wrote 'Don't Stop' just like I wrote 'Pumped Up Kicks' - I didn't try to make either a hit. I just wanted to write a song I liked.

If you're thinking about making a hit song, and you think I want everybody in the world to love it, then you kind of make it up, and you do it.

I record into my phone as soon as I hear a track. Melody comes first for me, and then my gibberish usually forms into lyrics and a concept from there.

I want every song on it to be a hit.

I have some lofty goals. I want 'You Broke Up With Me' to go Number One.

When I'm recording, I usually just mumble and hum a melody and then fill the words in as I go.

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