Hit Quote by Shankar Mahadevan

I have lost my credibility as a hit maker because of these side excursions into other branches of music; by not being consistent. Consistency…

— Joni Mitchell

In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success,…

— 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

That's the nature of the business. You can have a hit and then nothing happens all of a sudden. But I don't resent it.…

— Leo Sayer

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.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

I think the key to writing hit songs is simplicity.

— Bonnie McKee

The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will.

— Jennifer Lopez

Often by the time writers and producers try to get a new hit song, the industry has already moved on. Whatever you're creating might…

— Poo Bear

You see so many musicians come and go. For me, it's really about the longevity in the music industry. It's not all about having…

— Mustard

Musicians have to do what they do and express it musically. All the blah blah blah will get lost in the dialogue.

— Carlos Alomar

Our idea is simply to play the songs and to emphasize our musicianship.

— Krist Novoselic

Songwriting is like working on a jigsaw puzzle, and it doesn't make any sense until you find that last piece. It has to make…

— Chrissie Hynde