We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.

I tell my fellow reggaetoneros, keep giving it your all and bring more creativity.

I’ve noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I’m not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they’re rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

Madonna, I think, is the greatest visual musical artist that we’ve ever had. If you look at her photo log, the photographers that she was able to work with throughout her career framed her in the proper way. It was the proper context. It was that visual that made sure that everything was gonna cut through in a certain way.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

To make headway, improve your head.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

I guess that’s one of the things about growing up in the fifties – it never occurred to me that you wouldn’t be at least as successful as your parents.

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story.

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it’s not going to happen. I’m fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

John Lennon was definitely my favorite Beatle, hands down.

Rap was my drug.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

I made an album I’m very proud of, and that’s about it.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

I like very girly, retro inspired, feminine, floral things. I’m not very edgy.

All Montreal bands have around nine members, I believe.

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That’s what I enjoy now.

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

I don’t think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world’s face. That’s all private.

I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I’m always, like, just in it. It’s like, ‚Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I’m so happy.‘

It’s easy to make an album full of great songs. But I want people to go for the ride. The songs have to make sense together.

Cardi B put a lot of work in.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

If you sit there and have that mentality of ‚triple down on what you’re good at,‘ you’re never going to grow. You’re always going to stay the same.

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Doo-wop is special music to me because it’s so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

I sing and play the guitar, and I’m a walking, talking bacterial infection.

I wouldn’t call myself a synaesthete in the sense that Nabokov was. But I’ll talk about a sound as being cold blue or dark brown. For descriptive purposes, yes, I often see colors when I’m listening to music and think, ‚Oh, there’s not enough sort of yellowy stuff in here, or not enough white.‘

If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

Affluence means influence.

Music is like film to me.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

I’m a businessman as well as an entertainer. The reason why is because I want to own whatever I’m doing. I don’t want to work for other people forever.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.