Hasil Adkins Quotes

Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.

I started recording in '67. In the first part of '68, my first single was 'Backup Train.' That was success to a degree. Four years have passed by since then, and I have managed to come up with a few measly sellers.

A lot of my die-hard fans think I have a lot of hits, but I don't.

I don't have a long history of hit singles of my own. I had a few, and I had a little hot streak in the '70s, but I've had a lot of success producing other people.

With The Guess Who, it took us fifty-something singles before we had hits.

The fact is, I've been releasing records longer than I've been releasing films, or at least exactly as long.

I was strictly after hits when it came down to the Jackson 5. That's all I was concerned with.

By the time my first album was out, I had been out in Jamaica three or four years, but I had hits out at that time that were bona fide hits.

I've just been fortunate to havehad a lot of hit records, though Human Wheels doesn't qualify as a hit record-but it's really the best single I've ever had.

We weren't One Hit Wonders. We had a few hits.

There were a lot of songs during my MCA years that I thought should have been singles but were not. You can't worry about what wasn't - I was very lucky to have as many hits as I had.

I have sold 120 million records. Half of those could be in Europe.

I've had a few ditty hits.

I competitively want to produce just as many records for Drake as Kanye West did for Jay Z.

People don't necessarily expect singles from me. They expect full bodies of work.

My first two albums, 'Silverbird and 'Just a Boy,' which had the single 'Long Tall Glasses' on it, were very well received. Then I did another one, 'Another Year,' which did miserably.

I come from a time when pop music was the coin of the cultural realm and in a certain way was the only coin of the realm; movies didn't matter as much, and not TV - it was all about pop music. In the era when I started - which was the early '60s - it was all about singles leading to albums.

All of our early hits, 'Danke Schoen' and 'Red Roses,' were produced by Bobby Darin.

I've only had one platinum album, and it's 'Red River Blue'.

I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.

I've only been making records since 1991. When you look at the long-standing careers of people like Joni, it's not very long!

I started in a band called 'Timbiriche', we toured the world when I was 8; I have 23 albums.

I've had about 140 albums released, and I've done everything I wanted to do.

When I'm on the road with concerts, people ask me to autograph my CDs, but more and more they come up with the cookbooks.

I'm not a one-hit wonder as some suggest. I've had a couple of hits, but still, all of my hits were in the '70s. There was pretty much nothing in the '80s, '90s, or in the first full decade into the next millennium.