Figures Quote by Paul McCartney

I finally realized that so much of the music world is about how much money you've got, how much you can pay to make…

— Patrick Wolf

I don't think my story is an unusual story for a lot of music performers. But I think that since 1982, worldwide, I have…

— Toni Basil

When I was on the big labels, I never calculated what would make me sell more records. I just did what I did -no…

— Jill Sobule

But I remember we sold nearly 18,000 records in one day.

— Neil Innes

I don't know how much money I've made, don't know how many albums I've sold.

— Lily Allen

The only time I made money was when I licensed my own solo guitar record, which sold maybe seven copies.

— Sasha Frere-Jones

Every person at a record company didn't want to be bothered with me because I was too smart. They knew if I recorded, they…

— L.C. Cooke

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

We always sold 4 or 5 million records no matter what we did.

— Sammy Hagar

There's really no money per se to be made on records. We used to make a lot of money on records. Now, all of…

— Joey Kramer

When I started playing music, people weren't selling 5 million records. That was not the standard; that was not the focus.

— Prince

If you are a musician who has released albums, it would perhaps be morbidly interesting to know how much you would be owed if…

— Henry Rollins