Top 45 Grammys Quotes

Every year, they ask me to play the Grammys.

I think I’m happier, not just because of winning Grammys and selling records, but because it’s really fulfilling to have all these things happen with something you love to do.

Rock evolved out of rebellion, so when you turn on the Billboard Awards or something like the Grammys, and there’s no rock on there, that’s a good sign – because that means that rock is not welcome inside of a pop format.

Well, 20 Grammys is not bad.

I want the services to look and sound like the Grammys. It’s not showy, but we represent God, and it should be first class.

I have an awards cabinet in my studio where I keep my eight Oscars, my 11 Grammys, my seven Golden Globes, and my Tony Award.

I’ve always said I can’t tell sometimes that people even have an album out until I see them nominated for a Grammy. I think country gets dumped on across the board by the Grammys.

Drake doesn’t realize, in many ways, he was like the big brother I never had. He set the example and paved the way for me to be myself. Now, whether I’m at the Grammys or whether I’m here or there or whatever, he’ll show me love… People don’t realize what that’s like, what that means.

I’m kind of iffy on the Latin Grammys because I think we fought so hard, for example, to get the American side of the Grammys to open categories for us… But I support the Latin Grammys in the sense I’m glad that we have them.

The Grammys are very wide-ranging but it’s still within the Western world of music. So it would be lovely if that opened up more.

I’m a touring musician. I don’t watch the charts. I had the kind of success I’d hoped for. I won Grammys for a folk record, and that was magic.

Thank you to Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Universal Studios, and the Grammys for telling the story of what Compton was and is becoming.

I have a love-hate relationship with the Grammys because I don’t see the music world as a competitive sport.

One thing I love about the Grammys is that they love to recognize old, risky music.

I’m a genuine lover of music. I’ve always watched the Grammys from home.

Most of the time – at the Grammys for example – a DJ will perform with just their hands in the air because they can’t do anything and that makes it a little awkward, I think.

I want to be on stage and perform and win Grammys and help out my family in Bulgaria, because they are struggling, and my mom and dad, too.

I’ve got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

I did that Grammys thing – I did a little freeform poem.

The last thing I want is to walk into my house after a long day and see all the Grammys and awards. It would make me feel weird.

I need Grammys.

I would watch the Oscars and every award show with my parents. I would make lists of who was going to win. I’d be doing Oscar predictions months ahead of time, and not only for the Oscars, for the Grammys. This is just what excited me as a kid.

We just couldn’t seem to get the love from the Nashville awards shows… So Grammys really gave us validation, and so that’s why they’re such a big deal for us.

I would not be able to sleep at night and I would practice my Grammys speech. That was definitely me.

I wanna be the most successful socially aware artist: Grammys, number one singles, albums, overseas and internationally-known household name, all that.

I’m aware that if I make a country album and release it, and it gets on the Grammys, the Grammys are going to put it in the Urban category. Just my blackness automatically sets it in there.

I’m hungry for VMAs and Grammys. That’s my main goal.

Dance music has evolved very much. From DJs playing at the Olympics, to playing at the Super Bowl, working with Cirque Du Soleil and even getting recognized at the Grammys with awards, dance music is growing in a big way.

Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on best male or female or any of that. We had to earn them.

I want to win Nobel Peace Prizes, as many Grammys as I can, Emmys, Golden Globes, VMAs, everything.

All my life, I was even just wanted to attend the Grammys, like, just be there, so the fact that I’m nominated for Best New Artist, it feels like a dream.

My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don’t even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it’s like awards don’t mean anything.

That was one thing I wanted to win because, my mom, she didn’t really know much else in music, but the Grammys were special to her.

I don’t care if I get nominated for fifty-eight Grammys, the day I can’t go back to where I came from, I quit.

Going from someone playing 15-people venues to performing at the Grammys, it was this giant leap and sort of showed me it was possible with what I wanted to do and the kind of music I wanted to write and artist I want to be to impact a lot of people.

In Las Vegas, a day before the Latin Grammys, I was walking backward and hit a light and fell down. The worst part is that I was singing with Becky G and Mau y Ricky – they all rushed over to help me. It was very dramatic.

I have records in gold, in platinum, I have two Oscars, I have Grammys and so on.

Why don’t the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap – like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided.

I was in a bluegrass band. I made two records with a band called the SteelDrivers. They were nominated for two Grammys. I then I was in a rock band called the Junction Brothers; we made kind of ’70s hard rock music.

Some people have their problems with the Grammys, and it doesn’t recognize so many great artists.

Not many people are able to say that they had in their professional career the chance to perform in two bands that won Grammys and were multiplatinum bands.

We can watch videos of our whole journey – from old tours to doing the AMAs (American Music Awards) in 2013 and through the ‘Star Wars’ medley or when we sang with Stevie Wonder on the Grammys. I just sit back and say, ‘I can’t believe we did all this!’

I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be there.

I couldn’t believe it, this is the first time I’ve been on the Grammys and it’s amazing. I’ve been dreaming to be here at the Grammys for so long.

The biggest accolades aren’t the Grammys for me. It’s creating opportunities for people.