Album Quote by Kenny Chesney

I came into having an artist's career in this very sheepish and directionless way. It's hard to explain, but I was 18 years old…

— Porter Robinson

I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who…

— Robert Smith

There was a long time in my life where I made music that I thought my friends would like, or that I thought would…

— Danny Brown

I put out my first song with no intentions of being famous.

— Ravyn Lenae

I made an album that resonated, and I was lucky that a lot of different kinds of people liked it and contacted me to…

— Peaches

I was never in the business of trying to put my name out there - I was really focused on music and records and…

— Ariel Rechtshaid

One of the big things that broke the band up for me, which I've become much clearer on over the years, was that I…

— James Murphy

People have heard my music, but all my famous songs were made famous by somebody else... But that was my goal.

— J. J. Cale

I've had a great luxury in my career in that I became a very successful songwriter, which made it unnecessary for me to have…

— Eric Carmen

I hadn't known anything else, other than being an artist, and I needed to be a person for a while, really get to know…

— Tove Styrke

I was mainly a songwriter; I really wasn't much of a performer.

— J. J. Cale

I built a reputation as a songwriter in the industry before my own hits. People were used to coming to me for songs. There…

— Emeli Sande