Fortune Quote by John Denver

I've never written a song that I thought was a hit.

— Richard Marx

When you're like, 'Yo, we gotta write a hit song, we need a hit song right now,' that never works. Every time that happens,…

— Benny Blanco

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

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

I was always a wannabe 'singer-songwriter' but nothing was happening. I was trying for albums. I was too afraid to quit my job for…

— Anupam Roy

I don't write hits for myself, or for other artists, or to just be writing it. I write it because I was born to…

— Anonymous

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

I never thought of any of our songs as 'hits,' so to speak - we just wrote them for us.

— Matty Healy

Most artists don't know a hit. You can say I want this one to be a hit but it never become that way. The…

— Carl Gardner

I just make the music, and people have the say. When I'm making songs, I never call them hits.

— Juicy J

Everybody used to be busy writing songs - great songs - that became hits. Now everybody's writing hits. Everybody's desperately writing a hit because…

— Nuno Bettencourt

Growing up, I promised myself that if I was every lucky enough to have a hit and also a hit that I had written…

— Freya Ridings