David Draiman Quotes

As an artist, you dream about accumulating enough successful music to someday do just one greatest-hits album, but to reach the point where you're releasing your second collection of hits is beyond belief.

It feels great to have a #1 album.

I guess coming after 'Country Grammar' and everybody thinking, 'Well maybe, that was it.' To come back with something like 'Nellyville' and to have people accept it and appreciate it the way they did, that was a great move.

Well, the album 'Intuition' is out and just went platinum officially. So I think to have the music doing what it's doing right now, man, it's the ultimate. Nobody is really selling records out there but we are at a million records and we dropped it at Christmas, so we are just trying to get that thing to like two million, you know.

The first song that I had that went platinum was 'Keep Your Head Up,' which was a long time ago. Then, you get 'one-hit wonder' with that.

Until 'Bangalore Days' happened, a huge commercial success had not happened to me.

You can tell when you're in a hit.

My goal was never to sell many records.

It leaves a good legacy to have five records.

Ruth was probably the greatest athlete to perform in any sport. Never has there been anybody like him.

Just when I think it couldn't get any bigger, 'Tuskegee' reaches a new level of success.

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.

The biggest honor of my career was when I won R&B Artist of the Year back in the 1970s. I look at that as a major honor.

I started The McCoys in 1962, so I'm approaching my 40th year in the entertainment business.

There's been a few things that have been insane with 'Rather Be', and being nominated for a Grammy is, like, the pinnacle one.

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

If we were to use the success of 'Need You Now' as the barometer for every other song, then we'll probably be highly disappointed. That song will probably undoubtedly be the biggest song of our career. We can hopefully have success for 20 years, but we may not ever have the success of that one particular song again.

I was the youngest producer to have a No. 1 record when Kris Kross first came out, and that was a record I held for I don't know how long.

Having two back-to-back No. 1's is unbelievable.

The things that we did in Detroit will never be done again. Our record of holding seven teams under 70 points will never be done again.

I'm beyond thankful to be picked as one of MTV's favourite new artists for 2017. I've always viewed MTV as ever evolving, and to be a part of this new chapter is extremely rewarding.

We always thought if 'Beauty and the Beat' sold even 100,000 copies, we'd be real happy and a successful group, so when it reached a million... Hey, we just laughed about it.

I'm so proud of 'Break a Little.'

I was the first white British woman to reach No 1 on the R&B chart - the American black music chart.

It really is a dream coming true, being on Billboard.