Any Quote by Ray Charles

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

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

Im sure most artists say this, but my favorite songs are not the hits.

— Darren Hayes

Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs.

— Kara DioGuardi

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

— Guru Randhawa

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

Every album is just a greatest hits of whatever songs are on a pile when I go in to make a record.

— Amanda Palmer

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

It's interesting how some songs really lend themselves to performance in a big public venue and performance by a band and so on, and…

— Walter Becker

I am a true believer that a record should not be a bunch of songs that sound exactly the same.

— Bethany Cosentino

As an artist, you can't expect a producer to just bring you a record. If you walk in and say, 'I want Kanye West's…

— John Gourley

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

— Henry Mancini