Charts Quote by Valerie Simpson Download Open image “It's a songwriter's dream to have a song recorded and run up the charts.” — Valerie Simpson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Charts Dream Dream Song Dreams Recorded Run Song Song Recorded Songwriter Songwriter Dream Up
My dream many years ago would've been to continue to write and record songs in record/album form for years to come, but now records… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it — Sean Lennon Copy Share Image
In order to make a normal-sized record, a singer songwriter should have a couple dozen finished songs. Once they go through the process of… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
It's really such a personal journey, making a record, but even more so writing the songs. — Shania Twain Copy Share Image
I think that's an interesting point of being a songwriter, is to write songs that make people think. — Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi Copy Share Image
If I hear one of my songs by anybody, it's a dream come true every time for me as a songwriter, because I want… — Smokey Robinson Copy Share Image
Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's… — Nanci Griffith Copy Share Image
As an artist, you dream about accumulating enough successful music to someday do just one greatest-hits album, but to reach the point where you're… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
That's something that I think as a songwriter you have to ask yourself - why you're doing it. The world certainly doesn't need more… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
Once you write and record a song, it becomes everyone else's song. — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
You know, we have two families: the one we're born into, and the one that we make for ourselves afterwards. — Valerie Simpson Copy Share Image
My daughters are here, and that makes me feel good. And with the spirit of Nick Ashford, I think I'll make it through. I… — Valerie Simpson Copy Share Image
If you don't try and force it, a song will find the proper moment to come to life. — Valerie Simpson Copy Share Image
Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like… — Valerie Simpson Copy Share Image
It's interesting when you've been a partner with someone for so long. So now to sing solo and starting all over again I am… — Valerie Simpson Copy Share Image
In transition I think the spirit goes somewhere, but I don't think it leaves. — Valerie Simpson Copy Share Image
Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all… — Valerie Simpson Copy Share Image
In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into everyone else's space. — Valerie Simpson Copy Share Image
I don't know what I want to do. There are people who want me to do things. There's a possible book. There are lots… — Valerie Simpson Copy Share Image
We stand on our songs and we stand on the songs that we wrote for other people. That gives us a higher platform. — Valerie Simpson Copy Share Image
If you look at the charts every year, there may be five or ten memorable songs from each year. — Randy Jackson Copy Share Image
When I used to put an album out, I knew everyone on the charts. There weren't that many bands. Now, I couldn't even name… — Joe Cocker Copy Share Image
Lula is off the charts. You cannot reproduce Lula; and you will always have to count him in. — Fernando Haddad Copy Share Image
Even when I lost my job at CBS News, I set up shop in my youngest daughter's bedroom and started Brainstormin' Productions and the… — Hannah Storm Copy Share Image
It was an honor to have our album and names mentioned on the Billboard charts. — Momo Hirai Copy Share Image
If you look at the charts, there's not a lot of people that have become big from a podcast that didn't already have platforms. — Alex Cooper Copy Share Image
My energy levels are off the charts. I can run all day, I breathe well, and I sweat a lot, so the toxins and… — Larry Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I never envisioned being number one for five weeks, knocking Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men off the charts. That's the scariest thing and… — Sir Mix-a-Lot Copy Share Image
I'd had my time in the charts and made loads of money. I was no longer hungry for success. — Rick Astley Copy Share Image
