Art Quote by Carl Gardner

Artists don't always know. Almost every song I ever recorded that was a hit at the majors that the promotional people picked I didn't…

— Roy Ayers

If someone has given a hit in the industry, and everyone talks about the song and artist, that's a hit.

— Guru Randhawa

You don't really write a hit song - you write a great song, and then, if the public decides it's a hit, they take…

— Nuno Bettencourt

Any artist, when he goes in to record, should have the feeling that any song he records can be a hit. This may sound…

— Ray Charles

Hit songs are mysterious and slippery beasts; few artists have a lock on them. This means that many people, like me, have become fans…

— Dan Hill

That's the nature of the business. You can have a hit and then nothing happens all of a sudden. But I don't resent it.…

— Leo Sayer

In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success,…

— Les Baxter

No matter what, if you write a song that's great that everyone expects to be a hit, then everyone's going to be expecting another…

— LP

Just keep putting out music. Don't think whether it's a hit or not and people will get you.

— Adam Yauch

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.

— Les Baxter

When I first started writing songs, I was probably about ten or twelve years old, and the first thing you think as a songwriter…

— Michael Bacon

You don't know you've got a hit when you write it - because music is all subjective, you know?

— Jim Kerr