Music Reception Quotes

We were the ones that from the beginning said that 'Wide Open Spaces' was a hit. 'This is a hit, people are going to relate to it.'

I don't know if a song is going to be a hit or it's going to flop. I never know. I just do the music and if people like it, they like it.

I was asked, 'Why do you think the male 'X Factor' winners haven't been successful in the past?' And I said, 'Because obviously the body of work that they've brought out wasn't good enough,' and that was it.

If you're making music, you must want to turn other people on to it, whether you're number one in the charts or number 60. I don't know, that's a commercial thing, but just the fact that other people like you... there's no point in making music, otherwise. Otherwise, you might as well make it in your bedroom and leave it there.

It's hard to make music knowing that it's not going to be received by the listener in the way that it should be.

I was frustrated in the past, like, 'Wow, why do they have to throw me in the R&B urban adult contemporary lane?' 'Woman' was a no. 1 hit at Urban AC, so there's no disrespect to that lane. But did it get a fair shot at urban radio? No, I don't think so.

We make our own music, and the songs appeal to the public well, and the public likes them.

My music has been called so many different things over the years. I figure as long as it's selling, call it what you want.

I'm delighted people still enjoy my music all these years later.

New York gave me hell for that 'Purple Swag,' man. They didn't respect me until 'Peso.'

It is one thing to record an album but it's a huge difference when people play it and listen to it and embrace it the way that I do. It has always been my dream to get my music out to the world and have people hear it.

I won't lie - when you're first bringing out music and you want people to notice, you probably overdo it, especially as a girl.

Usually when my music drops, I can go to my hood, I can hear people playing it. Now it comes from performing it, people knowing it and stuff. It's crazy!

I genuinely don't know how many albums I'm going to sell when the new album comes out, because I honestly don't know how many fans I've actually got at the moment.

But when our first album came out, I didn't think it was going to sell a lot of records.

I try to not think too much about how people are receiving my music. And I'm not really famous enough that it's a problem.

Music is my life. The things that people do don't seem interesting to me at all - going out to bars, carrying on, going to parties. What the hell do people do? Shop? Play golf? Have vacations? That doesn't seem interesting to me. To me, my job as a musician is to be a good receptor. A lot of music comes through me.

My worst fear is my music won't connect with the public.

The whole time after you record an album, you're just waiting for the release date. You're waiting for fans to hear it and stuff.

Europe were kind of the first ones to embrace my music; the kids from around the way would come out to my shows and really enjoy it.

When I put out a record or single I don't allow myself to set up expectations like, 'This song must be a number one hit. Its got to sell X amount of records.'

I was aware of all the artists who make good debut records over the years, but no one hears them - and I wanted to make sure that didn't happen in my case.

I went to a radio station on Long Island in 1982, and thank goodness for me, it was so new that there was no receptionist. So the DJ opened up his booth, and took my tape and listened to it and thought it was a hit song.

Just look at 'K-pop' - who would've expected American fans to embrace it? It's really cool to be one of those artists who can break through the American market. I'm not trying to conquer America; I just want to make music and see if people like it.

My father would make record after record, and he'd be so surprised at what would sell and what wouldn't.