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It's a trip to have a Greatest Hits record. It's a trip. -- Lenny Kravitz
I do remember my first purchase: the Partridge Family's 'Greatest Hits.' I got it for $3.99 at a failed chain of pre-Wal-Mart-type stores called Jamesway. God, I'm old. -- Trent Reznor
I have lots of records, quite a collection, actually, that I stole from my mom. I have the original 'Thriller' album and I have a really great 'Elton John's Greatest Hits,' and I also have a N.E.R.D. album. Records sound more original. They have more edge. -- Elisha Cuthbert
I was talking to Alan Jackson. He had his second Greatest Hits album. He said, You don't ever get into this really thinking you're gonna make it. -- Jeff Foxworthy
Bob Dylan wasn't a big star early on; it was the release of his Greatest Hits album in 1967, and the mainstream success of the stoner anthem "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" ("Everybody must get stoned!"), that really put him on the mainstream map. -- Bob Dylan
I pressed PLAY and started up Chiron's favorite--the All-Time Greatest Hits of Dean Martin. Suddenly the air was filled with violins and a bunch of guys moaning in Italian. The demon pigeons went nuts. They started flying in circles, running into each other like they wanted to bash their own brains out. -- Rick Riordan
The greatest hits in some weird way marks the end of something. -- Sheryl Crow
We didn't just want to go out and do that whole greatest hits thing. -- Andy Taylor
I think all the bad blood started when Geffen released a greatest hits package of my solo stuff. -- Sammy Hagar
I don't want The Cure to fizzle out doing 45-minute shows of greatest hits. That would be awful for our legacy. -- Robert Smith
Every album is just a greatest hits of whatever songs are on a pile when I go in to make a record. -- Amanda Palmer
I still have my eyes on the prize: I want to be that old lady onstage shaking her hips and singing her greatest hits. -- Christina Aguilera
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. -- Daddy Yankee
I think that providing obstructions in the live setting is when you get something that actually means something, as opposed to just aping your way through your greatest hits. -- J Tillman
I think that finding a way into somebody's life that's sort of off from a side angle can tell you more about that person than a greatest hits approach. -- Bill Condon
My career was really odd, because I literally had a greatest hits album out and nobody knew who I was. They knew the songs, but they didn't know me. -- Kenny Chesney
Greatest hits is easy because one has nothing to do - except that we both, Roger and I, felt that new songs should be there because I've been away for awhile. -- Tina Turner
When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package. -- Sammy Hagar
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. -- Sammy Hagar
I try to be careful to not just say it's a greatest hits show because we've also made efforts to keep people up to date so to speak because we continually write and record and put out albums. -- Gerry Beckley
But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn't do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs - Early Days - which is what it is - and Latter Days. -- Jimmy Page
Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs. -- Adam Duritz
I loved the idea of making history interesting for kids! When Scholastic approached me about 'The 39 Clues', I immediately started going through the 'greatest hits' from my years as a social studies teacher, and picked the historical characters and eras that most appealed to my students. -- Rick Riordan
I'm not trying to hide from my past. I want to roll in it. Like a dog, rolling in feces, I'm rolling in the feces of my greatest hits - that's a bit of a wild way of looking at it, but I am a man, and we do like rolling in our own feces at times. -- Billy Idol
The greatest risk to man is not that he aims to high and misses, but that he aims to low and hits. -- Michelangelo
The greatest risk to man is not that he aims too high and misses, but that he aims too low and hits. -- Michaelangelo
I grabbed another. Aerosmith. Nope, can't throw classic Aerosmith. I snatched a copy of the Thompson Twins' greatest hits and chucked it at him. -- Rachel Vincent
All my parents' music came from greatest hits albums. It was like the thought of getting even one bum track was too much for them to handle. -- Carol Rifka Brunt
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. -- Daddy Yankee
I think that providing obstructions in the live setting is when you get something that actually means something, as opposed to just aping your way through your greatest hits. -- J Tillman
Florence is perhaps best known for being the seat of Renaissance art, and rightly so: A greatest-hits collection of artists passed through its streets - Michelangelo, Leonardo, Botticelli, and Brunelleschi among them. -- Hanya Yanagihara
As an artist, you dream about accumulating enough successful music to someday do just one greatest-hits album, but to reach the point where you're releasing your second collection of hits is beyond belief. -- Gloria Estefan
I think with a comedian, when you get to the point of a greatest hits, it's kind of an acknowledgment that you've been doing stand-up a long time, which not very many people do. -- Jeff Foxworthy

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