Being successful Quote by Bonnie Raitt

I didn't want to be that artist that is successful as a result of someone else. Not that that's wrong, but I felt like…

— Kiesza

I became an artist because I couldn't become anything else.

— Mati Klarwein

My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose…

— Wynonna Judd

With any level of success you get some non-musical things that come along - money, ego - and it's easy to lose your perspective…

— Joe Walsh

People have always said that I could have been a highly successful pop artist, if only that were my intention. It never was. My…

— Todd Rundgren

I found the most difficult thing when you became successful - when I had the record album, it won Album of the Year -…

— Bob Newhart

I had no idea that I could sustain a career as an artist. But, I loved music and wanted to be in the music…

— Ray Stevens

A lot of people considered my career as an artist largely over. Two albums got shelved. But I've made music since I was a…

— Mike Posner

The more I abandon ideas of myself as a musician, the better a singer I become.

— Dan Bejar

You're taught that it's not very likely for you to become successful... that odds are you're going to be a struggling artist for the…

— Kali Uchis

I didn't have any great talent. I didn't want to become a rock star or an author.

— Kumar Mangalam Birla

I was never successful in a noteworthy way, no one wrote about me, and I didn't have recognition. I've met a lot of musicians…

— Lana Del Rey