Astrid S Quotes

Nobody ever knows how big a song is going to be.

I had no idea 'Big Green Tractor' was going to be as big a hit as it was. You just can't predict those things.

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.

You can keep rummaging around until you find a song you like, but you can't predict whether it'll hit or not.

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!

When I started playing music, people weren't selling 5 million records. That was not the standard; that was not the focus.

For songs to be big, I don't think there's a certain formula to it.

That's absolutely one of my main goals, to have a number one on Billboard. That's a big thing for me. That means people are buying and listening to your music.

You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma.

Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.

It was really weird to have a hit. Of course, we had a certain level of fame in the Pixies, but nothing I had ever done had been mall-kid friendly.

The record business has always mystified me. Sometimes there are reasons why things sell or don't sell that can't be understood by mere mortals.

It's such a cycle. You'll see a rapper drop a song, and next thing you know, he's gone.

I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.

YouTube was really good for building a kind of core, loyal fanbase. I didn't want to be a YouTube artist as such. I mean, there are people who are able to release albums and live off YouTube, but I felt - and not in an arrogant way - that I could be commercial and credible if I really put my mind to it.

You never know until a song comes out and becomes what it becomes, obviously you can't predict how the masses will react.

I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album.

If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.

Now so many really good groups who have had a first major hit can't get a deal for a second one.

People spend their careers trying to figure out what makes a hit single. But I learned a long time ago that you can't anticipate what people want, because it's always going to change.

When I was nominated for a Grammy, my label dropped me - I have a wariness about trying for a hit.

The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial; it was something very personal to me.

I know I will never have a hit single in America.

I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars.

When you look at what people consider success in the music industry, it's just terrible music.