Caroline Corr Quotes

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

If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.

It's really about making the best music you can make. It's really about working hard.

I don't like the word 'rock star' or 'super star.' I am a guitar player, a songwriter who got lucky because I stayed at it and didn't give up, long enough that people noticed me.

I seem to have secured some place in world of music and that's kind of all that really matters to me.

I've always just adored music. It's my first love, really. I admire and respect people in the music business. You really have to work hard and diligently. Sometimes actors can be lazy and get away with it, but you can't do that if you're a musician.

I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

Music is my hustle.

Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often.

It's a bummer sometimes but I always believe that great bands and great music always prevail.

I'm amazed by the ground that I covered. The music's the number-one thing. And if it isn't, you better quit now.

By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.

I love that young bands will do anything to succeed.

I really have a lot of respect for music, the art form of music. It's my whole life. I don't care about any of that other stuff. And I have always felt that way. I'll build a career on my own merits, my own hard work and nothing else.

Slipknot is hard work; I don't care what anybody says.

We were never hip, which is fine with me. We aren't that interested in that whole situation. But all the times how we tried and failed to get across in our music, we actually succeeded on 'Superstar Car Wash.'

It's a dream to be its conductor. Sometimes I think, 'My God, I can't believe it.' It's a dream which came true.

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.

I dedicate all my time to music. And I'm glad that it's paying off in some ways.

It's just interesting how people relate my success when I would like to think that I worked my ass off for a reason and that it's about the music and not because I was on a TV show.

I feel I am fortunate that I could become a composer.

I think my best advice for young guitar players is that it's not an easy road - definitely not; female guitar player or male guitar player, it's not an easy road at all.

You can't please everybody. As long as you make dope music, you're gonna have your fans.

My siblings' first songs in Bollywood - 'Baabuji Zara Dheere' and 'Saawan Aaya Hai' were huge hits. There is no rivalry between us, and we love and support each other.

I know there are many great talents, much more talented than I am, but they haven't been able to achieve what I have.