Dan Smith Quotes

Recently, I've been working on anew album of material, which should be out in the new Millennium. I'm not sure which song will be put out as a single, but I'm still hoping to get another record in the charts.

The end game is always a hit song.

I've only had one platinum album, and it's 'Red River Blue'.

At the end of the day, you sign a record deal and you understand where it could go if you had the right song.

I just want to keep saturating the market and radio with as many hit records as I can.

After we wrote The Wreckoning, our record label did listen.

My most successful album happened back in the mid-'90s, pre-Internet times, with 'Songs For A Blue Guitar.' We were supported by Island Records; we toured a lot. Songs were licensed to TV commercials and movies.

I really want to make a great record, like my 'Rumours' or 'Thriller.'

When most of my solo/single tracks started making a buzz globally, labels started placing my songs in movies.

I had a lot of songs which, I felt, if they come in an album, they can become bigger hits than in films.

I did a CD way back in 1989, but I never got it off the ground.

In Australia, our first album went four-times platinum. It was massive.

Anything can wait for a hit record. That, after all, is what everyone wants at the end of the day.

I'm continuing to produce and will start a new record soon, as well.

My next baby will be my new record.

It was so simple in the old days. You put out an album, people promoted it, it got in the charts, and you had a hit.

American Idols that come off the show and don't have a hit song - that makes it tough. If you come off the show and the song isn't big, and it takes a couple months to get your single out there - that time could be damaging.

We had an EP out and all of a sudden we find record companies are interested in us, and we're thinking, 'Oh, that's really nice, but we don't think we're ready for it.'

So there was a way for you to get promoted and survive as an artist without worrying about AM radio hits.

It's a songwriter's dream to have a song recorded and run up the charts.

I don't believe in the philosophy of stumbling across hit records.

We turned what is virtually a glorified independent label into one of the powerhouse labels in the town.

I want to sell out arenas and make an album and work with some of the best artists in the world.

I'm about to start working with a singer I met on my last trip: she'll get international exposure, and I'll have a song out in that market sung in Cantonese.

I did my thing with Jive. I was a national recording artist, but I had run into a wall.