Dolores O'Riordan Quotes

You don't just go to the studio and say, 'I'm going to write a hit.' It becomes a hit when people like your compositions.

We call 'Ain't No Mountain' the golden egg that landed us at Motown.

Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find something that the public would like.

Songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter. But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message. If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.

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.

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.

I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.

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 don't know if a song is going to be a hit or it's going to flop. I never know. I just do the music and if people like it, they like it.

Artists don't always know. Almost every song I ever recorded that was a hit at the majors that the promotional people picked I didn't think it would be a hit. I was wrong every time!

I've never written a song that I thought was a hit.

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

Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained that I have a hard time even thinking I had any impact other than what a normal hit song would have.

But now it's kind of a given that a 15-year-old would have a record deal and sell a quarter of a million records. No one's expecting her to answer any deep theological questions. And I'll tell you, I was asked some deep theological questions from the git-go.

I'm a creative person, and I've got a lot of ideas. People probably thought that my mentality was quick fame because I made 'Rack City' and it blew up fast, but I have over 1,000 songs recorded.

We can even sing off key, but if it's produced properly it can be a hit.

Fleetwood Mac always take a long time to make a record - you know what.

'Marvin Gaye' came about my first day in L.A. It was kind of crazy that that's my first song that I wrote and it blew up that much. What's crazy is the next day I wrote 'See You Again,' so that's pretty interesting. I was trying to prove myself as a songwriter.

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

You put Drake on anything, and it's money.

I am an extremely energetic person, and my party songs have managed to click with the listeners.

I just look to make great music and garner the love the people have always been kind enough to give me.

I wouldn't trade what Coldplay have achieved for any of my songs.

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.