It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record.
A song is a song and a hit record can change a life.
I'd love to have a hit record. I don't believe anyone that says they wouldn't like that.
I haven't had a big hit record in America since 1987.
I don't believe in the philosophy of stumbling across hit records.
Every country I've had different hit records, so we have to change the set to fit the country.
In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records.
I got me a hit record and I ain't never made a cent from it.
I've just been fortunate to havehad a lot of hit records, though Human Wheels doesn't qualify as a hit record-but it's really the best single I've ever had.
As long as you're giving up quality records and you're makin' hit records, people are always gonna want to hear a hit, and they'll always want to be attached to something that's doin' great.
It's a trip to have a Greatest Hits record. It's a trip.
Things like 'Lucky Man' were never written to even be a record, let alone a hit record.
I've been around for such a long time. My first hit record was over 20 years ago and the people who bought my records then are married now and they probably still play these records and their children like them.
China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain't right.
I'm not going to say that every record I've put out was the greatest record in history, but I'd stand by even the bad ones. Don't make excuses, make hits.
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 think it would be a hit. I was wrong every time!
Every record I have done was because I was a person's friend. The only time we did not continue to be friends was if the record did not become a hit. If it did, we became great friends.
In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any more records. That was it, period.
You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins' name on your record as a producer and it was on RCA, you could work the road. It didn't have to be a big hit record, it just had to have that on it.
Any artist, when he goes in to record, should have the feeling that any song he records can be a hit. This may sound egotistical, but it makes sense.
A band like Depeche Mode would go out and record them hitting a trash can with a steel rod or something and recording it. And that would be one of their sounds of the drums. I love the creativeness of that kind of really raw sampling.
