Michael Bacon Quotes

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

By the age of 17, for me, we had got an recording contract, and, boom, I was gone.

A record deal is my dream.

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

I'ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary.

Well, I had a record deal since I was 18, and it got me where I am.

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

I knew what I wanted to be, but I didn't know exactly how to get there. I thought you move to Nashville, you sing downtown, and someone discovers you, and you become a country music star. I had no idea.

The stuff I write I'm very proud of, but I'm smart enough to know I'll never get on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' next to Elvis Costello.

Most of my friends in Nashville - almost all of them - seem to have had hits in the '70s, either as artists or songwriters or producers.

It only took me six months to get a record deal, but it took me 20 years to have a hit.

But now it's kind of a given that a 15-year-old would have a record deal and sell a quarter of a million records. No one's expecting her to answer any deep theological questions. And I'll tell you, I was asked some deep theological questions from the git-go.

There were aspects of stardom I didn't like, which were of no consequence, really, but the positive things far outweighed the negative. By the time I came to write 'Setting Sons,' I felt my writing was more like prose, set to music.

I have a lot of successful musician pals, and as I get older, I find that I'm lucky to be a writer. I have great anonymity compared to musicians who sell the same number of records as I do books.

My first break was in my home country with some pop songs that became hits, writing for French singers Christophe & Francoise Hardy, which became hits.

When I was a little girl, my dream was just to hear my song on the radio. It was very fascinating to me, and I was like, 'How do I do that?' Now it's like, 'Oh my God, my song is on the radio!'

I'm a pretty successful songwriter and known in some circles, but I didn't think the story of my career was of any real entertainment value.

I'm just an artist that makes good music and has a good idea to make money off of that.

I'd like to sell out worldwide stadium tours. That'd be something. Or to have sixty number ones on Billboard.

'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.

Before you have a hit song, all you're doing is banging on the door and screaming, 'I've got something I want to play...' Now with the hit songs, they're like, 'Okay man, we're listening. Whaddya got for us?'

My next baby will be my new record.

I want to sell out arenas and sell millions of records.

I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far as I know, had been on an airplane until Columbia sent us to Los Angeles.

People are always coming up to me, thinking I've got some magic wand that can make them a star and I want to tell them that no one can do that. Making hit records is not that easy. But it took me time to realize that myself.