We’ve collected the best Charts Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Darius Rucker, Nancy Gibbs, Guy Oseary, Cher Lloyd, Shakin’ Stevens. Use them as an inspiration.
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I don’t care about the charts; I just want to make great music that I enjoy performing on stage and I’m proud of.
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Every single thing that I was told that I couldn’t do without a label – get in the charts, get on to the Radio 1 playlist – I’ve done.
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As an artist, I don’t care about where we are in the charts and all that. The important thing to me is to connect with a creative project.
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Every generation has had some sort of focus for their unrest and discomfort with growing up. But today, the music that’s in the charts is probably liked by their parents as well, and I think it’s a part of youth that you need something that isn’t liked or understood by the older generation.
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For me, geopolitical issues are becoming more important, because how can you understand economy if you don’t understand geopolitics? People think economists just deal with spreadsheets and charts. That’s a narrow-minded caricature.
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The energy behind Mr. Trump is just off the charts. This is a rank and file movement that you’re seeing, with massive turnouts from New Hampshire down to Mississippi, Alabama. I mean, his supporters are representative of the entire country.
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When you’re in a band you can stay a teenager for years; my mood was determined by what number we were in the charts.
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To me, it’s exciting that women are dominating the pop charts.
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I did, although I didn’t read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science when I was in the university so I was able to understand the graphs and pie charts and stuff like that. It was extremely dry.
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When I was doing dancehalls, nobody was doing well in dancehalls. Dancehalls was not mainstream music that was blazing charts and knocking down barriers. This was an underground phenom.
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We do a big business with our midsized-venue model. We don’t need bands to be on the top-ten charts to make money.
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I don’t really look at the charts at all. If anything, I try to out-do what I’ve done before. I try to make music that I like and I trust my own judgement with what will work with a wider audience. If you compare yourself to the charts, you lose perspective on what you’re doing and why you’re doing it.
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It can be disheartening to see acts that don’t necessarily have any input on their own material to do so well in the charts.
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The packaging of Led Zeppelin‘s IV doesn’t have the name of the band, doesn’t have the name of the album: It’s got a guy on the cover with a load of sticks on his back. This record didn’t quite get to No. 1 in the United States – it went to No. 2 – but stayed on the charts for years and years and years.
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