Yo Yo Honey Singh Quotes

When 'I'm Sorry' came out and became such a huge hit, that made 'Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree' start selling. Then that became a huge, huge hit.

I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.

I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.

I don't think it's so hard to be commercial and interesting. Look at Prince, or Neil Young.

At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.

You don't really write a hit song - you write a great song, and then, if the public decides it's a hit, they take over from there. The song becomes its own monster.

Our entire family is replete with sentiments of patriotism. Uncle Swarna Singh left for his heavenly abode in jail in 1910, two or three years after my birth. Uncle Ajit Singh is leading the life of an exile in foreign countries.

Look, when a song becomes a hit, it happens because of its tune and melody, and not for the lyrics in the first place.

When I'm in the studio with other rappers, we talk about social issues.

Hip-hop music has done a very good job of maintaining the political context, where they stand and not giving a sh-t what people think.

What is a hit? Who can tell? Who decides what a hit sounds like? I needed to remind myself that a hit is whatever people decide is a hit. I don't make hits; I make music. People make hits.

I think it's a shame that 'Woman in Chains' wasn't a hit at the time, although it's become one of people's favorite songs.

If I wasn't rapping about politics, then I might have been just another person trying to sell albums, and I might have sounded like everyone else out there.

I'd love it if one of my songs became a hit.

For the first four or five years I was in Korea, I took a lot of direction from my management and label in terms of what people want. I found myself trying to fit into that thing I never felt comfortable with because the critique I got was that I was too American, and too sophisticated and polished in terms of my musicality and it won't sell.

I have sung some great songs, and fortunately, all have gone to become hits.

Music that speaks of politics is less listened to than the music of partying, but it's still there.

In hindsight, I think my manager and I both knew that 'Someone You Loved' was a special song that we had to put out. But no one was expecting it to do so well.

The video was of paramount importance, because 'Take on Me' was not an instant hit.

Everyone knows it, but no one is willing to digest the fact that the lyrics comprising of slangs can also be a hit among youth.

I was always trying to write standards, songs that anybody can sing. I figured that's where the money was.

I feel like hip-hop is the new pop because it has a lot of influence because of our culture.

Interscope Records has always been a heat-seeking missile when it comes to shifts in popular culture, whether inciting them or reacting to them swiftly.

When scoring music, the idea is to ensure that your song makes it to the playlist on your audiences' music player and stands out from the multitude of songs released every day.

In pop music, people take a stand. When you look at a Beyonce or a Kendrick Lamar, they are going to tell you what they think. And audiences totally get it. They totally love it, and they are totally hungry for it. But in our conservatory training, I think it's a little lacking.