Keith Sweat Quotes

I've never tried to achieve anything. I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.

When you're No. 1 or No. 300, you still get to play and write the songs.

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

I never had huge amounts of money when I was young. I had huge amounts of fame, and I always had the sense of labor and recompense. I always said I don't want to work for pay, but I want to get paid for my song.

I thought I was just going to be a songwriter for other people! And now I get to put out my own music, which is amazing.

We think accolades are nice, awards are great, but we make music for the people.

I thought, I'm in my late 50s now, am I ever gonna get the chance to do another album again?

It's easier to make an album, harder to figure out how to get people to notice it.

If it turns out to be a hit, well, good luck dealing with fame. And if it's not a hit and you can still survive and make music you believe in, well, then you're truly blessed. I think that's where we are now.

Singing is my dream and, while it may have not been a commercial success, critically I was thrilled with the reception my first album got.

We had an EP out and all of a sudden we find record companies are interested in us, and we're thinking, 'Oh, that's really nice, but we don't think we're ready for it.'

I would love to make my music and be completely anonymous, but that doesn't work. You can't have success and be faceless.

I just started writing for my own amusement and occasionally singing in little clubs around Los Angeles. Then I wrote 'The Rose,' and through a series of divine things that I had no control over and had no idea were going to happen, it got in the movie, and that changed everything.

I got behind that pencil and nothing happened for many years, but since they put me in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, I've turned around. I took a good look at myself and said, I think it's time to get back at work.

It's like half the campaign of selling a record is trying to convince people that you're an artist. Well, I am an artist. This is what I do.

With fame, I'm able to create more. With every success, you have more freedom to create.

I always love making albums. I'm passionate about it and it's something that's healthy for the soul and spirit.

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.

But 'Cuban Linx' was a project that really needed to come, and I really wanted to get it off my chest because I know that the fans were really skeptical about it, like 'is this really gonna be what it's supposed to be?' So once everybody caught it for what it was and everybody was happy, that's mission accomplished for me.

I had a long, long time to make 'Rubberband,' and I originally thought that that record would last two years. Once I got over realizing that that's not gonna happen, and sort of got my perspective back, I realized, 'Man I'm really fortunate. I get to write music, make music for a living.'

I'm a rather multifaceted person - or at least I like to fashion myself as such - so my dreams are multifaceted. For example, I had a dream of winning a Grammy, right? I've done that three times over.

Fortunately, the music from the first record really connected with people, and I was really proud of that.

For me to be here at album number six, it's kind of a way to say, 'Thank you for allowing me to be here... to still be around.'

I'd rather be a musician than a rock star.

I really do think that getting the golden ticket for 'American Idol,' it's just the start of something really great.