American Quote by Dan Hill Download Open image “The hits I had in the '80s - I made those deals directly with American companies.” — Dan Hill ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare American Companies Deals Directly Had Hits Made Those
I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia. — Rick Springfield Copy Share Image
I started buying records in the 80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we were listening… — Steven Sater Copy Share Image
I broke into the business in the '80s, and the '80s was based on hyper-exaggerated reactions. — Paul Heyman Copy Share Image
What was great about the 80s was that you still had record companies who would get behind developing you as an artist. You had… — Marc Almond Copy Share Image
I think, back in the day, when I was first starting to make music, all I wanted to do was to get a record… — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
I think, back in the '80s when I was having hits all the time, I took it for granted. — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
I grew up in an era where the record companies just sold records to everybody, and the whole family bought songs. — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
Well, I tried to get a record deal in 1966 or '67, and everyone thought I was too eclectic. — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
Back in the '80s and '90s, when there was still a record business, there was pressure on anyone who was fortunate to have a… — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
I had a record deal with Sony in the beginning of the 90s, and I was rapping and singing in my band. — Volker Bertelmann Copy Share Image
A British pressing with a compilation of the best stuff really, I mean actually not only that but, these were all kind of semi… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
With Dollars And Cents on the album, we had it as a band jam and I sometimes spend evenings playing with records over the… — Colin Greenwood Copy Share Image
Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged. — Dan Hill Copy Share Image
In a world where people are hungry for quick fixes and sound bites, for instant gratification, there's no patience for the long, slow rebuilding… — Dan Hill Copy Share Image
I did have one bad accident up north near Deerhurst. I was driving back in the winter on these snowy roads, and these two… — Dan Hill Copy Share Image
Some stresses are unavoidable - it's just part of life. One of the things I do to avoid stress is not work with people… — Dan Hill Copy Share Image
You can tell black artists are front and centre when Usher discovers and launches Justin Bieber. — Dan Hill Copy Share Image
The stuff I write I'm very proud of, but I'm smart enough to know I'll never get on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' next… — Dan Hill Copy Share Image
When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song. — Dan Hill Copy Share Image
Flipping through the 'Toronto Star' one day in 2008, I noticed a piece about a phenomenal boxer from the Philippines who had won several… — Dan Hill Copy Share Image
Woody Allen movies notwithstanding, therapy, in the early eighties, was not exactly a hot conversation starter. Nor was it a favoured activity for dysfunctional… — Dan Hill Copy Share Image
To be sure, boxing has always been, at best, a shady and sometimes cutthroat business, buttressed by hype and tomfoolery rivalling, at times, that… — Dan Hill Copy Share Image
My dad was one of four children. His three siblings were female, and he loved and protected them. — Dan Hill Copy Share Image
If we don't invest now in so-called priority neighbourhoods with music classes, athletic facilities, and skills training and mentoring, we will all pay more… — Dan Hill Copy Share Image
I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
William Maxwell's my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for 'The New Yorker' called Maeve Brennan,… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
I really like a lot of American country stuff, so my music has that influence, but I don't like to be set within a… — Jade Bird Copy Share Image
I certainly don't think that the heirs of the American Revolution were a particularly noble class. — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
Congress passed the American Rescue Plan Act in a tremendous investment to support millions of workers without a paycheck and behind on bills. — Jake Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy and employ almost half of the working population. Yet because of their size, they rarely… — Dan Lipinski Copy Share Image
Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and put clear… — Nick Park Copy Share Image
France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
New York and San Francisco are distinctly different. San Francisco is driving the American media, not New York. You have young, microwaved millionaires and… — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image