Mark Ronson Quotes

I want to be successful. Not just money. Just making a successful record and a successful show... I could feel successful without selling a million records.

I always thought my records were number one; it's just the charts didn't think so.

Some musicians like to decorate their walls with discs saying: '1 million records sold in America.' I prefer to put up discs marking sales in lesser-known countries.

I've always known I would be a success, but I was surprised at the way it came.

I'm competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record.

It can be disheartening to see acts that don't necessarily have any input on their own material to do so well in the charts.

Obviously Spawn was at the top of the charts at that point so you get a lot of opportunities.

Getting to No. 1 makes everyone feel better; of course it does. But it's swings and roundabouts with these things. Sometimes you make a great record, and it clicks with people. And other times it passes them by; there's nothing you can do. It's still the same record.

I cleaned up my act, and I made this rap thing work for me. I thought people would respect me for that. But instead, it's, 'Oh, he's sold all these records, and now he thinks he's all that.'

Even with G.O.O.D. Music, we have artists that have done very well, and we've had artists that haven't. Being attached to Kanye is only going to get you so far. You've still got to have the records and the talent and the artistry on your own to carry it.

We never could have foreseen the success of 'Babel.' It's not like banjo records were soaring up the charts, you know.

I think our first record was a fluke, really. The fact that it went platinum and all that, it was all due to one video and the timing being just right.

I want to make more fans, sell records.

My life since the Miss Universe win has changed completely, in fact I do not think my life will ever be the same again.

I never thought I would grow up writing a book.

I could not be more proud of the countless lives that I have changed since I began my coaching and mentoring career!

I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of these came as a terrible shock and, like anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After.

The way I change my life is to act as if I am the person I really want to be.

Technology being the way it is, and record sales being the way it is, there are not too many things that you need to depend on a label for that you can't go out and do yourself.

Just because you sell lots of records it doesn't mean to say you're any good. Look at Phil Collins.

Phil Collins sold five times as many records as I did. Does that make him nearly as influential as I am? Nope.

We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments. When you're headed for a breakthrough moment, it's kind of scary because you say, 'If I break through then I have to make great change in my life.'

Knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means to undergo a transformation; one could even say that the knowledge is the transformation.

It's amazing to know that 5 years ago I was writing songs in a basement in the ghetto and now I'm writing for Michael Jackson. I'd be a fool not to say it's a dream come true.

I'm not anti single. I'm not one of them niggas that say "Aww record sales ain't everything." No. I wanna sell good. I would love a platinum record on radio and charts.