#hit record

One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones. ↗

— Waylon Jennings

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China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain't right. ↗

— Quincy Jones

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When I got involved with The Five Crowns who later became The Drifters, and we got this hit record, I still was looking at this as kind of a fun thing. ↗

— Ben E. King

#crowns #five #fun #fun thing #got

The music industry is really funny, when you have a hit record, everyone knows who are you, everyone wants to do duets with you, then if you have a miss, people suffer from amnesia. ↗

— Seal

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In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records. ↗

— George Strait

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It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record. ↗

— Mac Davis

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People are always coming up to me, thinking I've got some magic wand that can make them a star and I want to tell them that no one can do that. Making hit records is not that easy. But it took me time to realize that myself. ↗

— Dr. Dre

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Today the kids that are out now they make a hit record and they put them right out on the stage with 10,000 people out there and they don't know anything about the business yet. ↗

— Billy Eckstine

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I got me a hit record and I ain't never made a cent from it. ↗

— Patsy Cline

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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. ↗

— Waylon Jennings

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