Music Honor Quotes

My first single I was nominated for a Grammy with 'Crank That,' and I lost a Grammy to Kanye West, but it was still such a big deal for me to be nominated anyway.

When you win a Grammy... you're thinking about you winning. It is amazing. Your peers and folks in the record business are saying, 'This is what we think of you.' And that's why the Grammy will always be, to me, the ultimate in what you get as far as a music trophy, because it is the one.

It's a lot to take in to have won something as prestigious as BBC Music Sound Of.

Coke Studio is a big platform for music in Pakistan and I really feel honored to be a part of it.

There's been a few things that have been insane with 'Rather Be', and being nominated for a Grammy is, like, the pinnacle one.

It's a dream of mine to win a Grammy one day. I'm not saying I'm Grammy-worthy, but it would be a dream come true.

My first Grammy nomination? I was 24 - I was nominated for best new artist of the year.

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

Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.

The Hall Of Fame thing, it's an American thing. We don't have that in England or Germany or Australia or Russia or anywhere in the world apart from America. And it's an institution. What's that got to do with rock and roll?

I'm beyond thankful to be picked as one of MTV's favourite new artists for 2017. I've always viewed MTV as ever evolving, and to be a part of this new chapter is extremely rewarding.

If I win the Mercury Prize, I'll be very honoured. If I don't win it, I won't have lost it. Someone else will have won it. And that will also be good.

I've gotten to go to the Opry a couple of times and stand backstage and watch. But I made it a point not to take a tour or stand in the circle until music took me there. I told myself that was one place I'd never go unless music took me there.

It feels amazing to be on the MTV Brand New list. I was shocked when I got told - a good shocked. I'm proper happy about it.

The biggest honor of my career was when I won R&B Artist of the Year back in the 1970s. I look at that as a major honor.

It's weird to think about being introduced as 'Hall of Fame members Rascal Flatts.'

I believe that I'm going to have a Grammy.

There are musicians who wait all their lives for this award while for me it came with my first album. People have started acknowledging my work because of the Grammy.

By the way, I got a Grammy, which was a big thrill.

One of the high points of my career was winning the Grammy for 'I Will Survive.'

If I get a Grammy, that would be dope.

It's kind of like a college degree... when you get one, no one can take it from you. When you get to say for the rest of your life that you've got a platinum album, that really means something.

I would never do anything that makes the perception of country music worse.

It's an honor to win a Grammy, of course.