Music Excellence Quotes

I have no confidence issues with the impact or the quality of the music. No one in hip-hop, before this point and to this point, with all due respect, has done this.

I found out how great the E Street Band is. The reality of a band that you can't scoop aside, can't put in a corner.

I've received many awards, but I'm most proud of the ones for my country's music.

I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.

There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.

Barney Kessel is definitely the best guitar player in this world, or any other world.

My vision for G.O.O.D. Music is just carrying on with the tradition of putting out high-quality music, high-quality art. G.O.O.D. Music is entrenched in the culture of hip-hop. It's entrenched in the culture, period.

Our goal is just to put the best music out there possible.

I always think that you should be striving to write your best song.

It's amazing to be nominated for the Brits' Critics' Choice Award 2016. It's such a significant award that highlights the importance of new music, so it's a genuine honour to have been nominated alongside some other incredible new acts from the U.K.

My goal is a Grammy so my songs will have to be good.

Great songs stand out wherever they're from.

I want Grammys.

Great music will always rise to the top if you give it a chance.

One thing with Backstreet Boys, we never try to rush out an album. We always try to make quality music that can stand the test of time.

Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived.

The Grammys are just the pinnacle of music.

I think that 'Tell the Truth' is one of the best rock records ever made by me or anyone - I really do.

I think every artist should go for a Grammy.

Black music is too big and too powerful not to have its own awards show.

All John Coltrane's records are amazing.

I only want to be associated with music that is high quality. That's my main criteria.

I think the Grammy is like the award, you know.

I just want to work with the big people and the people who make great music.

I was in this public high school in Princeton, and it had this topnotch jazz program - if you were a musician of any kind of caliber, your holy grail was to be in that orchestra. It was that claim to fame of the school, of the town, other than the university. But it was better than the university band.