Hits Quotes

We weren't One Hit Wonders. We had a few hits.

People know me for up-tempo songs because of my hits.

Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits.

I'm really fortunate that I've had some mega hits.

There are a lot more shots coming at the net and guys are just shooting it at the net because they have more time and pucks are going in off legs and feet and shoulders and heads, so you might have to play out a little further on the shot and hope it hits you.

Somebody hits me, I'm going to hit him back. Even if it does look like he hasn't eaten in a while.

The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.

When we first began, we didn't have any hits.

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.

I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last ten years.

There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.

So there was a way for you to get promoted and survive as an artist without worrying about AM radio hits.

When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.

I love a visceral sound, the kind that hits you in the belly.

I write when the urge hits me, getting the words down as fast as I can type and then I step back from what I just wrote and start a dialectical process where I begin challenging my own writing.

The fear really hits you. That's what you feel first. And then it's the anger and frustration. Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself.

I never slept when I lost. I'd see the sun come up without ever having closed my eyes. I'd see those base hits over and over and they would drive me crazy.

I think it's just a lack of ability, we're incapable of writing hits.

I don't think I have the stomach Veronica has. I think I have the determination and the stubbornness and a little bit of the go-get-em. But I think I'm about 20 percent more girl than Veronica is. There's a lot of Veronica that hits home with me, the sort of feisty area. But I think that I have a little bit more girl. I'd scream my head off if I saw a body in the freezer.

I'm fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that I've wired myself for failure.

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 releasing your second collection of hits is beyond belief.

When people come to a concert, they wanna hear the hits, the big radio songs, and they wanna hear them how they're used to hearing them. I like playing them how they were recorded.

You still have Top 40 radio now, but it's 40 different stations. There aren't many hits that everybody knows, and there aren't many real superstars.

When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand.

David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent.

Celebrity hits like a bomb.

Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches.

Most of the hits I take come on top of the shoulder pads.

Every night is a joy; you get an hour and a half of all these hits. It's a lot of fun.

I'm just like everybody else. I have two arms, two legs and four-thousand hits.