Roberta Flack Quotes

Bollywood is huge. Anything that's made in large quantity will evidently overshadow others. But that won't stop artistes from making albums. A person who has faith in his music will go ahead.

I certainly hope my music is in no way, shape or form influenced by anything that would be known as a jam band. If it is, then I'm going to do something else.

I would never take part in one of those Eighties nostalgia tours, although I've been asked many times, because it's like admitting you have nothing new to offer. As long as I can keep making music I'm happy with, and people want to come to my gigs to hear it, I'll carry on.

I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.

In postscript let's just say that I am very fortunate cause I've gotten to work with a lot of great bands!

So many of my friends are still trying to get record deals, and I've had one for 10 years now, where my only goal is to make the best music I can make. I've been very lucky. I have great faith that I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be, and whatever happens is going to be absolutely right for me.

All the music that I've made in the past I've believed in. I think some of it has been more commercially successful than others, but it wasn't premeditated.

You never know when you put out an album that's unique whether it'll get beat up for it or not.

I hope to have a long career, and I don't want to be defined by things that aren't the music.

You don't see me in the club. And the reason is because I would rather be in the studio mixing these musical potions. Now sometimes they blow up in my face, and there's a lot of smoke. But that's who I am. Music is what I do.

When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.

I still enjoy playing some of those early Straits songs, and I'm proud of what we did, and certainly we had some great times. It's what we all wanted when we were kids. But you've got to have the resilience to ride that thing, to pick up that ball and run with it. Because you will keep picking it up and keep running.

I'm trying to break down preconceptions about what pop music is.

I have a gut instinctive feeling that I will be as massive as Madonna, as massive as Michael Jackson... Whitney Houston, sure.

There's a lot of pressure that comes from the mainstream stuff, and already people who have been saying - people who don't know any better - have been saying things to me like, 'You should really think about neosoul. You'd definitely be more successful in that.' But that's not my expression.

There's certain artists that are meant to have certain paths and go the way of the corporate world. And then there are artists who are artists.

There's successes you have in your career. For me, for example, as a guitar player, as somebody in a band putting out albums, the success that we have in our field and how we're viewed by our fans; that type of success means more than anything to us.

My music's gotten much more famous than me.

It's really weird how the rock world is quickly becoming like the jazz world. How if you do OK, or get a tiny bit of success, that's considered a sellout, whether you did anything different or not.

I wanted to try a different way of making music. That's what made me try different things with my voice.

I really wanted a No. 1 single from my first album, but I would not do anything different. It was real and honest and I didn't pretend anything.

I want to be an artist, not be in the business of making hit records. Once I figured that out, everything became clear.

Tears for Fears was always very personal, but at the same time, it was always big business, a lot of pressure.

Film music has given me everything - career and popularity.

Once we put 'So Anxious' out, it was a wrap.