Always Quote by Gina Schock

I think we'd sold a couple hundred records with our first album, maybe 1,000 at the most.

— John Rzeznik

We were excited when we sold our first 10 records. I always felt that if we could get the music out there, and if…

— Greg Ginn

If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.

— Brian Eno

You always have those artists where they release one great record and then they're gone. But we achieved this overwhelmingly positive and massive acceptance…

— Richard Carpenter

But when our first album came out, I didn't think it was going to sell a lot of records.

— Stephan Jenkins

We sold millions of albums.

— Richard Carpenter

It's a blessing and a curse when your first big public album does so well. 'Twentysomething' sold four million copies - I think we…

— Jamie Cullum

Sometimes music can really seem like a popularity contest with beautiful people.

— Tom Walker

I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.

— Justin Timberlake

I think that had we made an album every three to four years, you would have seen an incredible growth and expression come out…

— John Dolmayan

For me, the biggest successes I've ever had were the ones I never counted on. I never thought my first big record would be…

— Frankie Avalon

It's kind of cool that we've quietly been selling a million albums. We knew the album wasn't going to debut at No. 1. I'm…

— Jacoby Shaddix