Louis Walsh Quotes

Success is based on music, not where you're from.

I worked very hard and I earned all the attention I'm getting.

Nobody's going to sell 10 million records by not working hard.

I wouldn't have a No. 1 record or song if I wasn't a hardworking person.

Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you're trying to be famous, your work usually suffers.

At Pixar, 'Wall-E' was our ninth film, and they've all been successes - more than that, they've all really touched people. Everybody wonders, 'How do you do it?' Well, how do you not do it? You just work hard.

You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of whatever truth you can find in it, and if you are really lucky, a terrific partner and I have that and those four things worked out for me.

Something like 'Much Ado' happens, and even 'Avengers' happens because of the years of building connections and doing the work and proving yourself.

Starting out with music, I was very successful, and me getting into film, I definitely look forward to giving it my all. What you put in is what you get out.

Nothing in this league was ever given to me.

I think it's difficult to say what exactly made me become a successful DJ. It depends on so many different things. If I were given an award, I would thank my family, friends, Tiesto and the great team behind me for all their support and hard work. Without them, I wouldn't be where I am today.

I practised for some two months for the 'Kaanta Laaga' video. I gave my best to the song and the success is well-deserved.

I'm tryna be the biggest artist I could be.

I have goodwill in the film industry because I have always been disciplined.

We've been playing together since we were 13, and from the age of 18, we've had a record contract. I think that we've been incredibly lucky, yeah. But we deserve it.

Every step, every bit of success, it's gotta be earned.

Luck has a lot to do with being a musician.

Nobody is going to hand you a music career.

The bigger your songs get, the bigger the festivals you play at will be, until you make it to Ultra. It happened super quick for me. I'm still in shock, actually. I have to pinch myself a lot.

So many people say, 'So, what, are you a party girl?' And I say, 'I'm a walking good time.' Do I sometimes go out and drink? Hell, yes. But could I have a number one song if I wasn't also working hard? Maybe that needs a little more respect.

A guy said to me, 'You're so lucky. You have people like Ray Charles, Barbra Streisand and The Beatles doing your songs.' I figured out, though, the harder I work the luckier I get. The secret of anything is to surround yourself with good people if you want a good product.

The sacrifice musicians make, the results they achieve are fantastic. These are the big people as far as I am concerned. So if they are temperamental, I don't hold it against them after all they had to go through to get to the top.

I moved to Nashville with the same kind of mindset that I had in L.A., and that is to make sure you don't get outworked by anybody and make sure you're always writing songs and take every opportunity to play that you can.

When I was, like, 18, that's when I started to really take my own craft seriously and just noticed people were enjoying it. And when I put out my first mixtape, that's when I realized I could make this a career.

After your debut, it doesn't matter whether your parents are actors or factory workers. All that matters is whether you can get the job done.