Approach Quote by Les Baxter

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

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.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

Musicians should understand that it is not just about creating one hit but to sustain it at the top.

— Shankar Mahadevan

Obviously the trouble with having a hit with something like a cover of a ballad, you attract a whole new set of listeners, which…

— Tracey Thorn

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

I've never been burdened with a hit record, so I don't have to play the same songs. I play songs people think they like.

— Robyn Hitchcock

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

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think,…

— Edgar Allan Poe

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

There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind ... the only yardstick by which the result should be judged…

— Duke Ellington

I never think any song really feels like a 'hit' - a song either feels good or bad, in my opinion.

— Astrid S

Sometimes memorable music doesn't necessarily have to be a hit.

— Henry Mancini