Quotes by Richard Marx

About Richard Marx:

Richard Noel Marx is an American adult contemporary and pop/rock singer, songwriter, musician and record producer who sold over 30 million records. He had a stream of hit singles in the late 1980s and 1990s, including "Endless Summer Nights", "Right Here Waiting", "Now and Forever", and "Hazard". Although some of his major hit songs were ballads, many of his songs had a classic rock style, such as "Don't Mean Nothing", "Should've Known Better", "Satisfied", and "Too Late to Say Goodbye".
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I really didn't have any plans to record prior to doing My Own Best Enemy.

Richard Marx

So it was just a case of getting a bunch of songs that I had been writing for years but hadn't recorded together, and the result was My Own Best Enemy.

Richard Marx

Doing my own album provided me the opportunity to say whatever I wanted.

Richard Marx

As a songwriter, there's nothing better than winning Song Of The Year. But I couldn't really celebrate, because it wasn't right. Luther wasn't standing next to me, to receive the award.

Richard Marx

I fell off stage and bruised some ribs. The worst part was that the audience didn't realize I was gone.

Richard Marx

I'm now so keenly aware that I have everything to prove and nothing to lose.

Richard Marx

But I'm just having fun playing and giving Botox injections to the older songs.

Richard Marx

I think really what I'm saying is that I thrive on adversity.

Richard Marx

I think I do better when things are a little tougher.

Richard Marx

When things are too easy I lose interest in them so I find ways to complicate them to get myself interested.

Richard Marx

I've never written a song that I thought was a hit.

Richard Marx

I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about.

Richard Marx

People take songs so literally.

Richard Marx

I've always loved groups like U2 and Coldplay.

Richard Marx

In the past, there has always been so much pressure about carrying a show and promoting a record.

Richard Marx

I don't think I've ever laid out a batch of songs that pick myself apart the way that these do.

Richard Marx

My joke, which isn't really a joke, is that there will be one of two tours: the tour for the album that does well, or the tour for the album that stiffs.

Richard Marx

I can't wait to front my band with these new songs and play for fans, but I've decided to keep my day job too.

Richard Marx

And to any new fans we made along the way, I say... welcome to our party. It's just starting to get going.

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It never ceases to amaze me that I get to do this for a living.

Richard Marx

Author Bio

  • NameRichard Marx
  • DescriptionAmerican musician and songwriter
  • AliasesRichard Noel Marx
  • BornSeptember 16, 1963
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionMusician; Songwriter; Singer-songwriter; Composer