You could have the bases loaded, and you bring up the best pinch-hitter in the world to pinch hit, he hits into a double play, and then all of a sudden: ‘How could you do that?’
Creativity hits me like a lightning bolt. For two weeks ideas overflow and spill from me, before a period of nothing. The prospect of it suddenly just leaving me one day scares me. I’m terrified that every song I write might be my last.
You just take your hits on the chin and move on, that’s life.
When I came to England, everyone told me that I’d get the hits, so I was prepared for that.
Even when disco went out, I could still make hits. Once I had so much success, every idea became concentrated. I had so much confidence. I knew how the bass should sound, what rhythms would work. The tempos I knew: 110 to 120 BPM. I knew they would dance in the clubs in New York or anywhere.
We had fashion errors that became hits. We were bold with our colors and tights and being very sexy and the assymmetrical hairstyle.
And no, having the hits is just more work.
I know my overseas fan base is huge because of the hits on my website.
Stupidly, in our industry, producers pay precious money to sign stars whom they might not even use in the film. Producers believe stars make hits; actually it is the script that makes a film successful.
Backstreet Boys fans don’t want to hear the New Kids singing all of their hits. Just like our fans don’t want to hear the Backstreet Boys singing all of our hits.
I don’t think you have to go hit home runs to win races. I think we can get solid base hits with singles and doubles to put ourselves in a position to win.
If you take a band like Nirvana, their biggest hits are structurally the same as even a hair metal band’s biggest hits. The structure’s not different – the attitude was different. Except it really wasn’t. It seemed a little more human.
I lost a boyfriend over Elmore James. You know that moment when you send mixtapes at fifteen? He sent me pop hits, and I sent him Elmore James, and I never heard from him again.
When I emerged as a hero, there were times I had continuous hits in Malayalam. I also tasted success as a supporting actor in other languages. But there was a collective effort from a group in the Malayalam film industry to flush me out, which affected my career.
I’m not like Stephanie Mills or Whitney Houston with actual hits. My fans think everything I did was a hit.
We evolved living in more sunlight than today. We make our own vitamin D when sunlight hits our skin cells. Many people living in the northern hemisphere, however, suffer from lower levels of vitamin D during the fall, winter and spring.
A guy like Tyron Woodley, he hits like a truck. I know personally.
When you have good relations, your commitment to your commerce is right, your payments are right and then when you’re delivering good hits, a combination of all this results in people wanting to work with you.
I’m really good at writing ‘almost hits’.
My first albums as a little kid were Elton John’s ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,’ Simon and Garfunkel’s ‘Greatest Hits’ – and ‘Workingman’s Dead.’ How many other people still listen to the music they liked at age 12?
Of course, there are days when you remember that what if I had continued irrespective of hits or flops, maybe I would have been in different place. I agree and accept that, but there is no need to regret because the 8-9 years I was away from cinema has also given me depth and changed me as a person.
I remember when I was a rookie, Jerry Rice, I worked out with him, and he always told me, ‘You take less hits, you can play a longer time.’
When something really hits me, it makes me want to either jump off something really high or lie down and be buried. I want people to get hit and caught by my music.
The strongest feelings I experienced were in Davis Cup. It was the most powerful thing: the victories and the losses. It hits you in a distinct way. It’s another level of satisfaction – another level of sadness.
Tackling still comes down to leverage and owning that leverage and making your hits.
‘Singham’ was one-and-a-half stars all over, and it was one of the biggest hits of my career. It gave me so much respect. People think if it’s not critically acclaimed, you won’t get respect. But that’s not true. Even if you get one star, your film will do well if the audience wants to see it.
I’m not interested in gigs unless I really want to do them. I walked away from music in 1997, and then there was a greatest hits in 2002. Thank God, it didn’t do too well because the record company wouldn’t promote it.
I’m not a one-hit wonder as some suggest. I’ve had a couple of hits, but still, all of my hits were in the ’70s. There was pretty much nothing in the ’80s, ’90s, or in the first full decade into the next millennium.
Chris Gayle is the biggest hitter. He hits long, he hits big, he is a big dude.
It’s definitely good to have a hit from time to time, though not too often. If you have a few hits in a row, people start to think every film you make will be a hit, which is a big mistake.
‘Limbo’ has been one of the greatest hits of my career. A great response all over the world, not just Latinos but people in Europe and America.
There will not be an automatic increase in interest rate when unemployment hits 6.5%.
Not to be arrogant, but I have a lot of hits, so my phone stay ringing, but it’s consistent.
There have been quite a few films where we comediennes have come together, and all of them have been hits.
I have a film called ‘A Lonely Place For Dying,’ which is the most watched film on the Internet, over 3 million hits, more than any of Hollywood’s films.
OT Genasis is my L.A. homie; I’ve seen him grind, and he is still making hits.
You should be falling asleep before your head hits the pillow because you worked so hard every moment of the day.
The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you’ll do yourself a service.
They had been monitoring the site for a very long time, and at times, I received over 100 hits from the Department of Defense on the website, so I wasn’t the slightest bit surprised.
It’s so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it.
If I would have ever dreamed that I wouldn’t be in Van Halen anymore and was going to have resume my solo career again, I would have never contributed anything towards my own greatest hits package.
Even when my opponent hits a very good shot, I don’t just want to get it back. I want to get it back so they have difficulty. And then I can control the point.
When you’re playing Wembley Arena the emotion comes in waves, but in a tiny club it hits you in the face.
Las vegas shouldn’t exist. The incongruity hits you from the moment you first glimpse it from the airplane. First mountains, then desert, then neat squares of identical houses that look as if they were plucked straight from Monopoly.
If you ask me what’s Aventura’s forte, I’ll obviously say its capacity to deliver hits.
I think there is something to be said for churning things out. Motown churned out hits and there is nothing wrong with that.
But I studied art in Belgium from the age of 17 to 18, and I learned French when I was there. Very reluctantly so. I didn’t do a very good job. For the first six months I was very depressed and couldn’t speak to anyone, and then it kinda hits you.
Whether you like modern incarnations of what country radio hits are, or you like what I’m doing, or you like something really off in folk, poetry Americana land, it’s all just music, man. If you like one of them, great – go buy it.
As everybody manages to say on TV, ‘Yeah, he hits it pretty far for a little guy.’ Well thanks.
All of our early hits, ‘Danke Schoen’ and ‘Red Roses,’ were produced by Bobby Darin.
I find that Bach is appealing to a lot of different audiences. It really hits people at their core in different ways, but it also creates a meditative space. I just feel like I can play it, and it reaches people.
Spotify favors hits. It’s very much a meritocracy: It’s not like radio, where whatever is being played is what you hear. We offer songs up, and from there, it’s up to consumers to stream the music or not.
I had a lot of what they call turntable hits. A lot of them.
Life becomes inspiring, not in spite of the problems and the hard hits, but because of them.
Every single year, I go through once the new year hits, I go through this moment where I kind of think about how far I’ve come and what’s changed.
When you’ve got an extra gear in your head where that’s all you do, you’ve constantly got a little radar up. … And when something hits that strikes that beeper, hits that radar, it’s like my song skills kick right in and go, ‘Oh, OK, there’s a song in that.’ And then I start trying to figure it out.
Before there was a Ronda Rousey, there was a Gina Carano and Cris Cyborg. They finally fought, and we found out who was the baddest woman on the planet, and that was Cris Cyborg. When she hits people, I’m like, ‘Whoo!’
We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That’s cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it’s not cowardly.
