I take myself seriously and want my image to me more than just something aesthetically suited towards selling records. — John Dyer Baizley Copy Share Image
If people really like your music but you're not selling so many records, I don't think it really matters. — Nina Nesbitt Copy Share Image
I want to keep making records as long as I can and that's the beginning and end of my concern about selling… — Elliott Smith Copy Share Image
All record companies want big-selling records, and my music is a little too raw for commercial success. — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
I sort of disbanded the DC5 in 1970. I decided to call it a day when we were still selling records. — Dave Clark Copy Share Image
Keeping my family out of prison best I can. That is success to me. I created that without selling records. — Yo Gotti Copy Share Image
I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them. — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
No one's selling records anymore, so there's no income you're being robbed of. I think that you should be in alignment with… — Bryce Wilson Copy Share Image
No one starts playing my kind of music to make a fortune. But I do want to keep doing what I do… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
I'm a bit of a nerd, I wouldn't mind working in a shop selling records, or having a radio show where I… — Bjork Copy Share Image
I wanted to get my recording and become a musician again, work; with other people, do that kind of thing because I… — Bootsy Collins Copy Share Image
You're not going out there to make a living out of it by selling records. You want acclaim and you want to… — Kevin Drew Copy Share Image
Most people assume that a record shop's success lies in selling records. In fact, Virgin's success both in mail order and the… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Hey, we've all been to high school We've seen the in-crowds. Most of us have been in the outer crowds, the people… — Bobby Vinton Copy Share Image
Selling records is fantastic. But if you're not loving what you do, and if everybody is throwing knives at you, it can… — Wes Borland Copy Share Image
I have never made money selling records. I have never really made money touring, either, or with merchandise, surprisingly. But I do… — Sia Copy Share Image
How about no one's ever going to outsell Michael Jackson at selling records because the record industry is over. Game over. There's… — will.i.am Copy Share Image
There are a lot of musicians who are still desperately trying to pretend that it's 1998 and by having a huge marketing… — Moby Copy Share Image
They understand what their market is and who they should be selling records to, and most importantly, they know the kind of… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
There's always this talk of the industry of music and about selling records and whatever, but that ignores probably the majority of… — Jason Pierce Copy Share Image
“On the end of an era "I think records were just a little bubble through time and those who made a living… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
360 deals are the new things of the industry. It's not about selling records; it's about selling T-shirts, getting a piece of… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
Playing in a band, selling records through mail order, and selling clothes - these are all things I love doing. If that… — Yusaku Maezawa Copy Share Image
I feel like I'd like to continue putting out records and start putting them out more rapidly than I have until now… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
I suspect that we might actually start selling some records with these artists in about 10 years. Some the people who invested,… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
I'd rather have a strong career, playing and selling records to a loyal audience, then having one record that exploded. That would… — Colin Meloy Copy Share Image
I think it's OK if somebody likes my music and likes Sam Hunt's music, too. And I think if we're both selling… — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
The touring business is obviously critical to selling records, building fan bases, selling T-shirts, fulfilling sponsorship commitments. — Michael Rapino Copy Share Image
Before the whole [music] business was calibrated around the selling of records. I never could have imagined that live performance would become… — Arthur Fogel Copy Share Image
The whole having records and selling records and being on TV, that was something that I didn't ever think would be for… — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
Playing music was something I wanted to do since I was 11 years old, so when we went on tour and started… — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get… — Herb Alpert Copy Share Image
Anybody who says they don't want to be seen on a show which has millions of people watching it at one time… — Paloma Faith Copy Share Image
Now we know that, the way contracts are set up, it's not really made for artists to get rich from selling records… — Lisa Lopes Copy Share Image
I paid my dues. I have crawled to gigs. I have served people coffee. I worked hard selling all these records out… — Valerie June Copy Share Image
To have a No. 1 with 130,000 copies sold is, you know, I remember when we first started selling records, in order… — Jim Root Copy Share Image
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