Around Quote by Anne Murray

We look at our albums as stand-alone pieces of art and also as adverts for our live shows.

— Winston Marshall

It's easier to make a living doing shows then it is to sell albums.

— Classified

If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a…

— Nikki Sixx

I used to make albums because I wasn't touring, and so I thought, "This is the best way for people to find out about…

— Jen Kirkman

Big labels can buy you radio play, they can buy you social media likes and YouTube views. I don't have any of that, but…

— AJ Tracey

This is how people are going to listen to music now - streaming. So diversify as a band. It doesn't mean selling your songs…

— Winston Marshall

For me, promotional thing about some new album coming out destroys a lot of the excitement of making records. Records, movies, books - they're…

— Will Oldham

An album, for me, is not just a commercial product. It's about presenting a world to people, for them to explore and enjoy. How…

— Alison Goldfrapp

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed…

— Jaron Lanier

When you work on an album for three and a half years, you're kind of ready for it to get out there. To have…

— Kimbra

When you are a commercial music artist, your music depends on your popularity.

— Rhiannon Giddens

It used to be that you made an album and then you went on the road to promote that album, hoping for good record…

— Alex Lifeson