Alien Quote by John de Lancie

I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book out, he sold thirteen thousand, I think he got…

— Eddie Campbell

When we came up, Clive Davis and other record execs would do anything to keep Miles Davis, Aretha Franklin, even Johnny Mathis intact, because…

— Philip Bailey

“The old music industry is dead. We’re standing in the ruins of a business built on private jets, Cristal, $18 CDs and million-dollar recording…

— Larry Wacholtz

We sold millions of albums.

— Richard Carpenter

For the first four years, no new enterprise produces profits. Even Mozart didn't start writing music until he was four.

— Peter Drucker

The death of the music business was insane, but audio recordings have been around now for maybe 120 years. Books have been around for,…

— Stephen King

Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just…

— Jackson Browne

The eighties turned the whole system upside down. They would sign three groups and give them five or ten million dollars each to make…

— Tony Visconti

“stock into a word-of-mouth bestseller. And for the next three years they bought For Dummies books, millions of them.”

— John Wiley and Sons

The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in the early…

— Jimmy Buffett

We still have pretty good sales, especially for the art books.

— Glenn Danzig

We sold over 80 million records throughout the world, and there are going to be people who want a new product, or a reissue.

— Richard Carpenter