"Shout out to everybody who's been encouraging me to continue my singing career."
"With a career spanning over 60 years, novelty country singer Ray Stevens has proved to be the musical Renaissance man."
"If you're 25, you can't pick up a guitar and be the next Jimi Hendrix or be the next Eddie Van Halen. Just, you're going to be 40 by the time you're great, and that's sort of too late to make it in a music career."
"It's just a different type of feeling, and I cannot thank you all enough for showing so much love and support towards my journey and me as a musician."
"As far as my old projects, I still feel like those just led me up to my debut album, you know. It told the story but it told the story leading me up. It's still telling my story on a national or global standpoint."
"Luna had a great debut, but in their first comeback they just topped themselves."
"Bolton has paused his touring plans... to focus on his recovery."
"Taylor Swift has always been making big moves in the music industry."
"With my music, I tapped into a spirit of personal freedom, but that just as easily could have been used for the positive, not destroying anything."
"It was really believing that you know it's great to have this tour."
"Music is my job, that's why I'm putting out the album."
"It's amazing because, you know, we've been a band for 42 years. We've been blind ups been together for 26, and to be in the same club as Elvis and the Beatles and the Stones is not a bad thing, is it?"
"I moved to Los Angeles to pursue music... I got super super into production and I was making connections through doing studio work."
"I think I just peaked in my music career, I mean, it's, it's, it's been a long time coming but I mean I'm just so happy."
"If you become known as a jazz guitar player or a jazz man first you see you'll have longevity, your career will live a long time."
"Purple Rain sent Prince from respected musician to stratospheric superstar."
"I wanted to blow up and have an album sitting and be like cool y'all elected this song to blow up at these three songs here's the album boom."
"Drake could probably take a risk and come out with a record... head first into fatherhood and being wifed up and rapping about that as well."
"Hopefully this is more of him realizing and gaining his spot in hip hop."
"Aerosmith's career made a remarkable resurgence in the late 80s thanks in no small parts of the band's determination to get clean."
"That was Tupac's debut to the world, right there, y'all."
"We need to hear him on solo projects and see how he executes that."
"Superwoman part 2 did amazing things for Lil Mo's career."
"Little Mo finally released her debut album called 'Based on a True Story'."
"You gotta recreate yourself every time, don't get this one song and feel safe."
"If I've done one great thing in my life, at least I pushed John Mayer to become a guitarist."
"I supported myself, you know, I was in a band that was supporting families by making music, I've traveled all over the country, all over the world."
"The best thing he could have did, he got in the studio and worked at it."
"This music's gonna take me a lot farther than anything else."
"I really see you getting a platinum album, and on top of that, you reposted my [ __ ] on Instagram the last two days. You respect fans."
"Miley would go on to build the success from her new look, her new music, and her new attitude."
"For years, Singaporean Chia Amos lived in Russia pursuing his dream as an aspiring classical conductor."
"Pinnacle of her career and was the final one she released while alive, it showcased her first number one hit on the R&B charts and her inaugural entry into the Billboard top 100 with 'don't want to change the world.'"
"She became the biggest pop star in the world."
"Money ceases to give value once you reach a certain stage of music, you just got to take that chance, say, well, it's a chance. And I might live without money before I do that again."
"Tom Cochran finally busted through after fighting through the 70s in the 80s."
"Even the title 'simple dreams' reflects not only the name of one of Ron's best-selling albums but also encapsulates the essence of her approach to life and music."
"Adaptability is super important for a musician to have."
"That's what Garrett did and it's safe to say he's only going to keep moving up in the music world."
"I'm only 26, you know, I still got time on my hands, but to answer your question, I definitely have grown a lot since my first album."
"Draco was carving out his own lane in the rap game, putting his personality into his music, and the fans were loving it."
"She's so young and stuck in the position of topping a monstrous breakout year."
"Nobody told me when to start, nobody's gonna tell me when to stop. I'll release two more records and that'll be it."
"But trying to get past album out trying to think about..."
"Pacifica separates her legacy from her family, becoming a philanthropist, while Robbie pursues his music career."
"For aspiring artists who are lucky enough to be hand-picked for the trainee program, their work is only beginning."
"ASAP Rocky, keep doing what you're doing, man."
"Without you yeah I never heard that in the midwest I didn't play from playing the Spokane."
"Big was like the battery in our back. Once we got signed to Bad Boy, it's like he told us to be nice. We were unstoppable."
"For centuries, people have speculated on Mary Magdalene's relationship to Jesus."
"I want to believe the true fans will support whatever I choose to do."
"Ken's journey: 'From slapping teachers to leading the charge for change...'"
"Phoenix sings Winslow's song and it's perfect, and overnight she becomes a superstar."
"I think Jonah has a lot more music in him... let's see what else we get."
"Travis's career took off when he released his 2018 album Astroworld."
"I think the combination of 'I Get Money' and 'Ayo Technology'... put me in the space that I need to be in with the public musically." - 50 Cent
"Carly's music has come a long way, and one thing about her is if she's going to do something, honey, she's going to go for it."
"For all the albums he's made over the last six years, 21 Savage is an artist who came from nothing."
"Anybody that breaks the law should be arrested. It should be that simple."
"I don't ever see a time where Drake is not gonna be making music."
"Little Kim, she definitely has some hits, she's since fallen off though, but she definitely had some hits, we'll never take that from her."
"I'm more proud of [getting sober] than like any record I've ever made."
"He's doing outside of music, he still really cares about being a good artist or being a great rapper. I think that's the passion that's gotten him so far."
"Hey, that's pretty much as a musician that's essentially as big as you can get."
"Rather than dwelling on his feelings of alienation, David threw himself even further into music."
"I sold out my first show in LA with no radio."
"As a kid, I thought it was an amazing thing to get to be a musician, and I still do."
"I spice was able to go from a completely unknown artist to an overnight rap star."
"I sold my Rolex chain and bought studio equipment."
"He has some of the best runs within the whole hip-hop decade of 2010."
"Joji greater than Filthy Frank. Oh, that's a spicy take. They are both legends in their own right."
"Thank you guys so much for your support, coming to see the shows and any merchandise or anything. I love you."
"You're gonna be preaching in L.A., music is going to blow up. Wow, you're going to be doing a lot of music."
"She threw herself back into her music launching and pushing out her videos, including one in which she literally sings, 'it's expensive to be me ayy, ayy, ayy, while writhing on a bed of money, we stand a lack of subtext.'"
"I thought I was gonna be producing music, but God said shut it down and get in your Bible."
"Barry, after over half a century of making music, you're still very much at the top of your game."
"As soon as you picked up a guitar, you were destined to become one of the world's biggest stars."
"Dude, I can't wait to see if your music evolves... we're all cheering for you."
"Essentially, if Jack stays on track, I believe that he could build up as much of a dedicated fan base as Lil Uzi has."
"I kind of think that Uzi blew up real big and realized that he wasn't getting as big of a slice of the pie as he thought he deserved."
"Young Thug's hard work would pay off, and he would pick up the attention of Atlanta trap legend Gucci Mane."
"If you are an artist, you need to be bigger than your songs."
"Dudes like Jay-Z stored up their whole career... and then they unleash it on one big album."
"I fell in love with that person. That's why I'm going to quit being an idol. I'm going to be a singer."
"It felt like a real watershed moment where KSI was actually trying to be a rapper rather than just messing around on his channel."
"I'm trying to get better and better. I want my album to sell 250,000, 300,000, shit like that."
"He interpreted surviving the shooting as an indication that he had a higher purpose in music rather than crime."
"I wanted that to never stop because I was like you know big thing this [ __ ] ain't gonna last forever so let me hit strike while the iron is hot keep going." - DJ Quik
"I was Mr. condom man but when that [ __ ] record came out it was tough to put on that many condoms." - DJ Quik
"Young thug recognized his talent for music and decided to start rapping."
"I just performed to a level that they hadn't seen before coming out of Detroit."
"What would you tell the upcoming rapper? Be a realist."
"If you do everything that I told you to learn over the course of these 12 weeks here is everything that you would have that guarantees your music career launches perfectly."
"You found that perfect artist voice that works for you."
"I'mma make it happen, y'all, I'm stacking up the money, when I hear the track, I'm hopping on top of that like a bunny."
"Miley Cyrus has the greatest, most distinctive eras when it comes to her career."
"He's obviously doing the music, he's got the Sidemen thing going, which is going really well for them for the music, the boxes, we're bringing."
"Once you have tens of thousands of people that really [ __ ] with you and everything you do, yeah, then you cater to what, you know what I'm saying?"
"Looking back on her music, you can see her evolving with the hindsight of knowing what her sound comes to be."
"Just to catch a 12-hour bus to New York, sleep on the floor in studios, asking God why, never got deterred."
"It blows my mind sometimes when I think of how young she was, she had three albums, influential music, and a long career before she died."
"He proved to himself and the entire world that he is far more than just a drill rapper."
"I wanted to make sure there was a couple of songs from every record so you could kind of get an overview of the whole career."
"Louisa missing the number one was the final nail in the coffin."
"I swear to god who can't tell me that I ain't influenced a [ __ ] career."
"After this [ __ ] body, I'm coming for everybody."
"Trying to put it together, like how do you rap? Oh, you gotta get a studio, you gotta get how much studio equipment? This [__] is expensive."
"I just start taking steps toward what I what I was passionate about which was the music right and then doors start opening I start seeing the results of them steps and I just followed the positivity."
"When you get that first hit record, the biggest change was I had been playing and singing at the same time. I had no idea what to do."
"It really gave me the validation as a musical artist that I've always wanted."
"Ultimately, people have seen taking their street affiliations and churning it into successful music careers."
"Frank Ocean's return in 2016 with the release of visual project 'Endless' and shortly thereafter, his self-released highly anticipated second album 'Blonde', marked a significant moment in his career."
"Casey Veggies, reflecting on departing from Odd Future, stated, 'It's hard to explain really but I just had more of a different vision for my own rap career. I wanted to do my own thing.'"
"Music brought the dynamic duo fame, fortune, and family togetherness."
"Thank you guys and thank you to all the fans as well who have been supporting me along the way."
"It was only a few years prior that Lil Nas X started out with a 9-inch nail sample and a dream."
"Nobody maintains a 20-year career selling 40 million records by accident."
"Lauren Hill's rise to stardom was rapid achieving Milestones that continue to pose a challenge for contemporary rap artists to surpass even two decades after her breakthrough."
"Every producer in my career I've been dying to do music with."
"At least I get better every song like I don't think I'm the best but I'm slowly working on my flow, lyric, I'm trying to get better you know." - RiceGum
"My whole plan for me was music, but God had other plans."
"She wanted to make it through, but then she got into Girls Aloud, it actually worked out much better."
"Set to become a free agent young boy has a chance to cast off the shackles of major label intervention."
"Nine out of 10 players become bass players from one of two reasons: they either failed as a guitar player or no one needed a guitar player."
"One thing I appreciate is being able to be in music for that long."
"Nas is able to sell out large venues City to city state to state off the strength of not only this album but his entire catalog."
"I give Cole and Eve so much credit in the beginning of his career, whereas Colombia and Roc were like, 'Hey Cole, you have no single, nothing is sticking.'"
"Thankfully Angel and her family escaped and she was out of there by age 10 and has built a phenomenal music career since then which she has used to tell her story and reach out to those who need to hear the same."
"he released his debut album with RCA Records self-titled in 2019 with 16 songs a couple of which that we spoke about in this video like creep on me disrespectful in 24 hours"
"The day I stop, I don't ever want to go down to that fork in the road. I don't want to have a shitty music career, and I don't want to be in prison."
"Flight reacts: life's about positive vibes, nothing but."
"[...] she made it her career last by being a guitarist for other big acts including divas las vegas where she played guitar for celine dion and anastasia."
"Barely Breathing was a one-hit wonder song that helped launch a career in music through wildly different avenues than constantly touring and performing live."
"To be the next BTS, you have to stop trying to be the next BTS."
"Take Me Home Country Roads changed the career trajectory of John Denver."
"I want to be on my own tours, turning up like that, crowd surfing with my older fans."
"I knew I was gonna win a Grammy, I knew I would work with Jay-Z one day."
"Working with Jay-Z is still like the highest honor over any artist."
"If I never rap anymore from 2005, I still did more than anybody did."
"After her star-making appearance on Britain's Got Talent, Susan Boyle secured a place in all of our hearts."
"There's no retirement in hip-hop, it's all about passion."
"The riff that made me want to play guitar for the rest of my life and do it for a living was 'Through The Never' by Metallica."
"There should be a natural evolution for every artist who becomes successful to put somebody else on."
"I I just had the time of my life. I moved from a small town in upstate Connecticut and went straight to the Sunset Strip with a pile of 500 flyers from my band."
"The decision point and commitment to music seriously got the ball rolling."
"He had a successful solo career and is one of the most famous songwriters of the past century."
"We keep pushing on, we keep creating in the hope that one day we will be successful and make our living from our music and our creation."
"There's no place like it for me, singing live."
"Kodak had something special; he would just need to stay focused, keep making music, build up a body of work, and not get in trouble."
"Janet Jackson is an artist that always had a massive career because she had what you call a machine behind her."
"Nobody wins if the artist isn't moving or active." - Akon
"I just feel like I really want to do music. It's something I wanted to do as a kid."
"Even though it hasn't all the way boomed, I still feel successful in my own right because of that moment. I've never done that before, never got that opportunity."
"I saw Red Rocks and then all my you know my team's like hey we want to make an announcement that you sold out Red Rocks."
"The next time you hear from me I'll be singing." - Demi Lovato
"It's hard bro, it's hard, it's still hard, like it's so [expletive] it's pretty wild."
"Despite the mockery, Slim Jesus never let the internet bully him out of the rap game."
"Slim Jesus continued to drop song after song, always racking up at least a few hundred thousand, if not a million views a piece."
"I hope we see a lot more people like Pop Smoke turning their street stories into gold and breaking out of the situations that they're stuck in."
"Snoop says starting to perform so young helped him get over his stage fright."
"Snoop saw himself as a positive role model and hoped that his success would be something other kids in the hood would be able to emulate."
"Queen Bey has been dominating the charts since she was 17 years old and singing with Destiny's Child... surprise released an album, performed in multiple Superbowl commercials, and even performed with Prince at the Grammys."
"I realized that I really can rap you know what I'm saying and [] like you know I can really do this []."
"There are not many things that I will tell you to go do, but music is just one of those things that you would really need to get down if you want to make it in the world."
"I want to stop music, I don't. I want to keep doing music."
"Every day was a dream come true every city was another place we planted our flag every screaming crowd was another people conquered it was metal man metal."
"Harry's success formula: charisma, humility, and networking savvy."
"Harry stole people's hearts from the very beginning."
"Eminem has been known for not giving a [__] about what people think his entire career."
"This is bigger than rap, thank you. It's 10 years in the game, it's Bigger Than Rap."
"I feel like I put my weakest song out first just to jump back into the music, just to show y'all I'm going to be dropping."
"I probably wouldn't have been a rapper if I had my dad in my life."
"I've always wanted to do music, it's the best thing ever."
"They've only taken two breaks. From humble beginnings to selling out the world's largest stadiums, these seven boys have crawled their way up to the top."
"Being a SoundCloud rapper was perceived as someone who had a failing music career, which made the community stronger and more cult-like rooting for these rappers to win."
"I can retire right now and I still have 50 recorded unreleased songs."
"Setzer went on to have a very successful solo career as well, in particular with the big band, the Brian Setzer Orchestra."
"I literally pray every day. 'Please change my life.' And then 'GUMMO' came and life changed."
"Eve sponsored her and gave a good amount of money to the boss of the Pegasus company to have Ramona sing on stage."
"I started listening to them back when they were like on Guitar Hero and stuff in like mid-2000s and all that. Now I'm playing full-time with them on top of doing my solo projects as well."
"One that puts a nice pin on De La Soul's career thus far, and potentially opens the door for a new exciting era."
"That's a signal that there is no cap to how high this company can grow."
"As long as you keep making music, somebody gonna show up."
"I always wanted to do music. Like, growing up, I like the instruments and all this other [__], but when big dump died, I started doing it and taking it serious."
"When The First Edition broke up, I was totally lost. I mean, I always wanted to be a group singer. I loved singing harmony. I never wanted to be a solo singer. But the group kind of broke up around me, and I had no choice."
"When Lil Wayne became that super household name, that was Carter III."
"You risked your life in the middle of water rap, you can't give up on music!"
"One of these days I'm just gonna start rapping on I'm telling you right now."
"This is your time. This is the time that everybody's been looking for to work on music and get better."
"A viral hit turned into a platform for a rising star."
"My goal is to just keep making music and keep moving."
"If there was anything that his music brought him, it was unique opportunities. Kanye was given the privilege to go on tour with U2 and the Rolling Stones, exposed to a brand new world of large-scale performance that few rappers had ever seen."
"My dad respected me as a musician and he respected my work ethic."
"It's tough to be a musician... it's hard to make a living... it's hard to stay inspired."
"So I just went back into warp and I started doing my own thing and trying to work some music of my own write some music now that was working so I was thinking is any dream at all worth pursuing because none of that is working."
"What if you're an active singer-songwriter? That's awesome."
"I'm a rap forever, I don't think I'm gonna ever stop. Right now I'm just, it's just gonna be just in what capacity I'm gonna do it here."
"You've already won if you have people who are singing your songs word for word, if they're hero in your home."
"Money can never be the problem, I do the music because I love it."
"The singer's ninth studio album, Trustfall, was released. Its main motifs were themes of self-acceptance, spirituality, loss, and love."