Quotes about Hits

So you do shorter versions of the hits, or you take out a long guitar solo or things like that to make time for the hits and new music as well. But I don't think any of us ever get to do as much new music as we would like to.

There's so many FM hits that I love. Bob Seger, there's two of his songs that I love. I would probably love more, but I don't sit around listening to Bob Seger records. It's the same thing with Tom Petty; he writes amazing hits, but it's not often that I sit around at home listening to a whole Tom Petty album.

I'd say the best thing the Violators and I have done is to dominate the U.S. with an arsenal of smash hits.

It's different in the NFL because you're getting paid to get hit. In college, you're taking hits for someone else to make money.

Those sentimental radio hits, with their artificial naivete and empty crudities, are the pitiful remains and the maximum that people will tolerate by way of mental effort; it's a ghastly desolation and impoverishmment. By contrast, we can be very glad when something affects us deeply, and regard the accompanying pains as an enrichment.

I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.