Top 77 Grammy Quotes

You know, Python should have won a Grammy for our musical work on the show.

I was into punk rock my whole life. I never listened to the Eagles. I never listened to things that were getting Grammys. So getting a Grammy nomination wasn’t bad, it just wasn’t meaningful.

‘Masquerade’ is the autobiography of Wyclef Jean. A lot of people know me through my work with Carlos Santana or Destiny’s Child, winning all those Grammy Awards, but you do not know what is going on inside me.

So I did a program with the Recording Academy, the Grammy Museum. So pretty much they take, like, one hundred kids during the summer and for a week or two every day they go over something different in music history. Then during the music history part of the program, they would just tell us about the different eras.

I’m not going to lie: I’d love to win a Grammy.

Winning a Grammy is always going to be good.

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.

We’re so humbled and lucky to be in a position where we’ve been a four-piece for over 15 years. We’re signed to a major label. We’re on our fourth record on a major label. We’ve won a Grammy. We’ve toured the world.

My dream is to take the Indian independent music scene to an international level. People like Alisha Chinai, Baba Sehgal and Daler Mehndi took it to a very high level. My ultimate target is to win a Grammy. I don’t want to primarily be a Bollywood playback singer.

My goal is a Grammy so my songs will have to be good.

I’ve won several Emmys, a Tony and a Grammy, so maybe somebody will let me have an Oscar, and then I’ll have a full set.

I have always made commercial music. The people who vote for the Grammy nominees are mostly in their 40s and have other jobs or are musicians themselves. They like music that they can relate to – they like commercial music.

Artists have so much more control of their futures – they don’t need to rely so much on major labels or big companies to help them. You have artists like Skrillex that can dominate so much that he gets 5 Grammy nominees, and he’s clearly an underground artist.

Kendrick Lamar deserves a Grammy. He’s one of the biggest, most influential rappers of my generation.

I was excited to be nominated for the Grammy, but prizes are a little strange.

Getting a Grammy nomination for ‘Brooklyn’ meant a lot, especially because, as an album, it was one that was very personal to me but also one that I self-produced and had gone outside the label.

It’s an honor to win a Grammy, of course.

Macklemore gets a Grammy over Kendrick Lamar. I still can’t get over that. But again, it’s not Macklemore’s fault. It’s the way of the country.

It was pretty insane to play the Grammy Awards and looking out in the audience and seeing rock royalty – Bono and Paul McCartney. It was crazy.

I’ve been able to win a Grammy and then to come back and get the key to the city of Watts.

I feel like acting is something I’ve been working towards longer. And it would be great to win a Grammy, of course, but for some reason, an Oscar speaks more to me.

I was interviewed for a Grammy television show, and they asked me about Nashville, and I talked for three minutes and when I finished, I was teared up. The whole room was crying. Nashville has given me a home, where I never had a home before.

When I was 20, I wanted to be famous and win a Grammy and have people respect and love me.

As a kid, I dreamed of being nominated for a Grammy.

While I revel in the memories of my own Grammy moment, I also know how it feels to walk away empty-handed.

Ridin’ was natural, not forced. I didn’t try to make a Grammy record.

I’m a rather multifaceted person – or at least I like to fashion myself as such – so my dreams are multifaceted. For example, I had a dream of winning a Grammy, right? I’ve done that three times over.

I never enjoyed making videos, even though the ‘Total Eclipse’ video was nominated for a Grammy along with the song. We lost out to the ‘Billie Jean’ video.

We were up for a Grammy, we sold millions of records and we toured the world I don’t know how many times. It was insane.

The Grammy snuck up on me. I was on tour. It just hit me. I skipped down the street in Vienna. I kept saying, ‘I won. I won.’

By the way, I got a Grammy, which was a big thrill.

There are so many great records that when you grow older, you’re like, ‘Oh man, this is the best record ever made.’ And you’re like, ‘Oh it didn’t get nominated or win a Grammy.’ It’s countless, how many amazing, classic American records haven’t been knighted or whatever.

We just like to make great songs and have fun, and if people want to nominate us for a Grammy and celebrate it, then we’ll take it.

Getting nominated for a Grammy is as high as it gets for us.

When Elton John sang a duet with the white rapper Eminem on a Grammy telecast, rap went mainstream. Massive parental headaches followed.

There’s been a few things that have been insane with ‘Rather Be’, and being nominated for a Grammy is, like, the pinnacle one.

I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That’s my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.

Grammy nominations are certainly pleasant, but you can forget about them and lead a perfectly happy life – provided you have the approval of the musicians you work with.

Northwestern’s alumni list is truly impressive. This university has graduated best-selling authors, Olympians, presidential candidates, Grammy winners, Peabody winners, Emmy winners, and that’s just me!

I love inspiring people, and I love making good music, but I don’t stress about it. I don’t think I’m ever going to win a Grammy, and I’m OK with that.

I got so excited about it. I was like, ‘Yes! I won a Grammy!’ And then my manager was like, ‘No, you did not win a Grammy. You were part of a song that won a Grammy. Rihanna won a Grammy.’

Never in my life have I thought, ‘Man, I gotta get a Grammy.’

If I get a Grammy, that would be dope.

I like the story about Bon Iver. They said he kept his GRAMMY in, like, the basement bathroom so he could just focus on getting another one. If I won a GRAMMY, I’d probably keep it at my mom’s house on 47th Street.

In pop music, the public usually see the results – the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours – but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won’t make it.

The Grammy is the highest honor in music that we can receive, outside of having fans come and watch you every night and clap.

The GRAMMY was a huge deal. It’s the height of any musical career.

I saw singer Pink doing aerial flips during one of her performances at Grammy Awards. It got me inspired, and I started doing it, too. It has made me very flexible. I couldn’t even touch my toes a few years ago, but now I find myself to be extremely fit.

I think every artist should go for a Grammy.

Winning the ACM, winning the CMA, my first time on the Opry and having Grammy nominations were all a big deal to me.

I’d like my writing to be recognized with a Grammy.

I daydream about Backstreet Boys accepting a Grammy one day.

I spend six to seven days a week in the studio making records. I don’t have time to go do a lot of things that you have to play the political game to get recognition with the Grammy crew.

I plan on making a lot more records, and hopefully one of them will be Grammy worthy.

Radio continues to be the very best advertising music performers have. No one who ever grabbed a Grammy got there without radio.

It could be Grammy night, Oscar night, whatever – I don’t feel the pressure to be there.

Honestly, I never thought we’d get a nomination for a Grammy, period. To be honest, we felt that if we were ever going to get one, we thought we had ‘City of Evil’ and ‘Nightmare’ and ‘Hail to the King,’ and those were all big records, and they never even sniffed at us.

I need a Grammy or a nomination. Just give me my nomination.

My first Grammy nomination? I was 24 – I was nominated for best new artist of the year.

I’ve dreamed a lot of things and a lot of them have come true. The Grammy nomination was the last thing on my list before I had to write a new one. So I’m working on a new one.

I got an email saying we were nominated for a Grammy, and I instantly thought it was a joke. So I started Googling the nominees, and there we were!

I had somebody call and make a joke about it: ‘Oh, Buddy Guy won the Grammy – You should have won.’ I said, ‘No. Buddy should have won it.’ He’s a very talented cat. And don’t forget, he’s my homeboy, too.

I’ve had my ups and downs, and I definitely have a sense – in America, especially – that once you’ve made your mark and gotten your Rolling Stone piece and your Grammy nomination, that they’re on to the next piece of meat, and they don’t necessarily like to follow the twists and turns of an artistic career.

Over the course of my 20-year history as an executive in the music business and as the owner of a firm that specializes in in-culture advertising, I have come to the conclusion that the Grammy Awards have clearly lost touch with contemporary popular culture.